Sergio Mauritz Ang
Queens, NY
CTC: Second Season 

New York: The Brother[s] (Out of the Box Theatrics; Joker (National Queer Theater); Anna in the Tropics (Gallery Players); Summertime (Between Two Boroughs). Regional: Song of Me, world premiere (Stages Houston); From Number to Name (East West Players); Yoga Play, The Skin of our Teeth, Julius Caesar, Ragtime (PlayMakers Rep); Peter and the Starcatcher (Kitchen Theatre Company); Bruise and Thorn (PlayPenn); Mañanas de Abril y Mayo (Connecticut Free Shakespeare). Artistic Advisory Committee with Notch Theatre Company. MFA: UNC Chapel Hill. BFA: Brooklyn College. 

Malachi Beasley 
San Diego, CA 
CTC: Second Season 

Yale: Green Suga Bloos (DGSD), Romeo and Juliet (DGSD); SoCal: Harlem Duet (Coronado Playhouse), Fun Fair (West Coast Premiere), Antigone X (Cal Rep), When the Party’s Over (World Premiere); Film: B-Box (Xavier Griffiths). BA: CSU Long Beach, MFA: David Geffen School of Drama  

Aizhaneya Carter  
Philadelphia, PA 
CTC: First Season  

Regional: Keisha, Fairview (Trinity Rep); Belle/Mrs. Fred, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Cecilia, Fefu and Her Friends. Brown/Trinity Rep: Friendship/Girl/Time, Everybody; Hermione/Autolycus, The Winter’s Tale; Misha, White Noise. BA: International Relations and Theatre Arts, and a French Certificate from the University of Pennsylvania. Awards: She is currently the producer of a short series, gales., about Black, millennial nurses in Baltimore, selected for the 2021 Blackstar Film Festival, 2021 American Black Film Festival, 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival, and 2022 Pan-African Film Festival. MFA: Acting and Directing, Brown/Trinity Rep. Learn more at www.aizhaneya.com IG: @aizhaneya 

Ciara Chanel  
East Orange, NJ 
CTC: First Season 

Off-Off Broadway: Sometime Child (Theater for the New City), Drought (Teatre Latea/Latea Theater); Educational: The Rover, Wedding Band (Alexander Kasser Theater), How to Mourn the Dead (L. Howard Fox Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (ATC Studios); Touring: Theatre on the Move: Bully Tour. Awards: Nominated Best Actress at the New York Play Festival 2021. BFA: Theatre Concentration in Acting, Montclair State University 

Brayden Co 
Dublin, CA
CTC: First Season 

Educational: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Hamlet. Education: Carnegie Mellon University  

Michael Allyn Crawford 
Denver, CO
CTC: First Season  

CTC: Black Like Me. Regional: Are You There? (Humana Festival), Surv[I]val, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). A Raisin in the Sun, Proof, Sister Act (Little Theatre of the Rockies). Education: BA in Acting from University of Northern Colorado, currently working on MFA: Yale University School of Drama. 

Charles Gimming Denton 
Lake Forest, CA 
CTC: First Season  

Regional/Educational: Balm In Gilead, Alice’s Wonderland, Dreamers: Aquí y Allá, End Days, The Funfair, Stitching Stardust, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.  Steppenwolf 2017, CSULB BA: Theatre 2018, Columbia University MFA Acting 2024 

Seth Gunawardena 
Canoga Park, CA 
CTC: First Season  

CTC: Suresh (Animals out of Paper), UCSD: Vigneshwar Paduar (Chad Deity)

Hakeem Holmes 
Harlem, NY | New Orleans, LA 
CTC: First Season 

Regional/Educational: Minding Miss Mae Mae (Adirondack Theatre Festival), Three Sisters (Columbia U Stages), Julius Caesar (NYU), We The People a devised piece (NYU). Other: Vanity Fair, ESSENCE, and Ava DuVernay/ARRAY. BFA: Drama, NYU Tisch; the Black Arts Institute, Lucid Body House, HB Studios. ig: @hakeemlathon | w: hakeemlathon.com 

Tori Jewell 
Chapel Hill, NC
CTC: First Season 

Regional/Educational: The Skin Of Our Teeth, As You Like It, Stickfly, Julius Caesar (PRC), Into the Breeches! (Theatre Raliegh), StopKiss (PRC GroundFloor- Zoom), Hedda Gabler (KTC). MFA: Acting UNC- Chapel Hill 

Jamar Jones 
Richmond, VA
CTC: First Season 

Regional: A Wrinkle in Time, Stick Fly (u/s Performed), The Skin of Our Teeth (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Brothers Size (PlayMakers Ground Floor); Fires in the Mirror, Passing Strange (Firehouse Theatre); Fences, Akeelah and the Bee (Virginia Repertory Theatre); Red Velvet (Quill Theatre); An Octoroon, Topdog/Underdog (The Conciliation Lab); Free Man of Color (The Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company); Choir Boy (Richmond Triangle Players/THETC); and Equus (Cadence Theatre Company). University Guest Artist: Pure Confidence, Blues for Mister Charlie, The Story (University of Richmond). Awards: 2019 Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award, Best Actor in a Leading Role- Play for An Octoroon; 2020 RTCC Award, Ernie McClintock Best Ensemble Acting for Passing Strange. BA: The College of William and Mary. MFA: Acting, UNC- Chapel Hill. Resident Company Member at PlayMakers Repertory Company. 

Bridget Kim 
Morehead, KY 
CTC: First season 

CTC: Flowers of Hawaii (New Play Workshop). Regional: The Three Musketeers (Cleveland Play House); Antigone (Cleveland Play House). Educational: Twelfth Night (CWRU/CPH); Electra/Orestes (CWRU/CPH); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (CWRU/CPH); Middletown (CWRU/CPH). 

Breezy Leigh 
New Jersey
CTC: Second Season 

CTC: You Can Tell From The Twisted Juniper (New Play Workshop); New York: Le Blanc (People’s Improv Theater); A Sketch of New York (The Producers’ Club Theater); Henry Box Brown (Dizzy Gillespie Theater). Film: Step Into My Office (BRIC TV); Baby Mama Drama (Chela Films). Educational: Lovers In The Moon (World Premiere); Fireflies, As You Like It, Mojo, Blood Wedding, Hamlet, The Moors (American Conservatory Theater). MFA: A.C.T. Class of 2022; Honors BA from University of Virginia. www.breezyleigh.com 

Ellen Nikbakht 
Memphis, TN 
CTC: First Season 

Regional: Fun Home (KC Rep); Peter and the Starcatcher, Urinetown, Mr. Burns, A Christmas Carol (Clarence Brown Theatre). Educational: 50 Boxes of Earth, Everybody (UCSD). 

Yao  Pang
New Haven, CT 
CTC: First Season 

CTC: Through the Eyes of Holly Germaine. Regional: No. 5 The Angry Red Drum (Asian American Theatre Company); Cock, (Yale Cabaret). International: Tribes, Peter and the Starcatcher, This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls, Dragonflies, (Pangedemonium!); Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hand to God, (Singapore Repertory Theatre); Versus, Ophelia, (Cake Theatre); 13.13.13. (Theatreworks); The Good the Bad and the Sholay, The Last Bull (Checkpoint); This Chord and Others (Esplanade Theatre). Educational: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, She Kills Monsters (David Geffen School of Drama). Film: #LookAtMe (EKO Productions); Tiong Bahru Social Club (13 Little Pictures). TV: Glitch! (Big 3 Media); Average Guys (Hummingbird Co.). Awards: Life Theatre Awards Best Actor: nominated 2016, 2017; won 2018. MFA: Acting, David Geffen School of Drama ’23. 

Rebeca Robles 
New Haven, CT 
CTC: 1st Season 
 
Regional: The Wolves (Horizon Theater), The Hero’s Wife (Synchronicity Theater), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Center… (Atlanta Theater Club), Blackbird (Atlanta Theater Club); Graduate School: Affinity, Bodas de Sangre (Yale School of Drama); Film: Shelter Me (Dir. Jake Weber), Old Flame (Dir. Christopher Denham); Alina (Dir. Rami Kodeih), A Father’s Legacy (Dir. Jason Mac), Hope Bridge (Dir. Joshua Overbay); Television: Reprisal (Hulu), Better Things (FX), Ambitions (OWN), Insatiable (Netflix) 

Reece dos Santos    
New York, NY 
CTC: Second Season (First Season as Conservatory) 

Regional: Measure for Measure, Sofonisba (Theater at Monmouth); A Welcome Guest (CATF). TV: New Amsterdam (NBC), The Equalizer (CBS), American Rust (Showtime). MFA: Acting, NYU. 

Ben Schrager 
Elkins Park, PA
CTC: First Season 

CTC Debut. Off-Broadway: 1001 Nights (Atlantic Theater); Regional: The Royal Family of Broadway, Man of La Mancha, His Girl Friday (Barrington Stage); Indecent (Arden Theatre); Tidwell, or The Plantation Play (Sam French OOB Festival); The Sandalwood Box, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill, ms. estrada, The Nomad (The Flea); Dancing Lessons (Lake Dillon Theater); Peter and the Starcatcher (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); Henry Award Nomination: Outstanding Actor in a Play, for Dancing Lessons. BFA: Acting, New York University – Tisch. 

Isaiah Stavchansky 
Amherst, MA 
CTC: First season 

Regional: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). Atlantic Acting School. 

Deychen Volino-Gyetsa 
New York, New York 
CTC: First Season

Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Summer’s Soldier, No One Tells Orestes (Williamstown Theatre Festival). University Credits: The Odyssey, The Moors, Yen, Still Life With Rocket (UNCSA). BFA: Drama, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.