All The Way

DESMOND BING

Bob Moses and others

DESMOND BING (Bob Moses and others) is thrilled to be making his Arena Stage debut. His D.C. credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger Theatre); Unexplored Interior (Mosaic Theater Company); Occupied Territories (Helen Hayes-nominated) and the staged reading of Brokeology (Theater Alliance); and Ten Minute Play Festival (Round House Theatre). Regional credits include Occupied Territories (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, upcoming), Stage Directions (Penumbra Theatre Company), All Shook Up (Ogunquit Playhouse) and Struggle For Freedom: The Martin Luther King Jr. Story (Bright Star Touring Theatre). Film credits include Lawn Gnome and Love Story. Commercial credits include HEX accessory brand’s “Spring Lookbook.” Desmond would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support.

DAVID BISHINS

Robert McNamara and others

DAVID BISHINS (Robert McNamara and others) makes his Arena Stage debut. A D.C. native, his area credits include Between Riverside and Crazy (Studio Theatre), The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Theatre Company) and Appropriate (Woolly Mammoth, Mark Taper Forum). Off-Broadway credits include The Glass House (Clurman Theatre), Incident at Vichy (TACT), Sympathetic Magic (Second Stage Theatre), The Nest (Tectonic Theater Project) and Boys in the Band (WPA Theatre, the Lucille Lortel). Regional credits include The Old Globe, Intiman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Barrington Stage, Vermont Stage, Wilma, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Hartford Stage. Film credits include A Cure For Wellness (upcoming); SALT; The Adjustment Bureau; Sorry, Haters!; and The War Within. TV credits include the Secretary of Homeland Security on Netflix’s House of Cards, Homeland, Blue Bloods, Fringe and the entire Law & Order canon.

RICHARD CLODFELTER

Hubert Humphrey and others

RICHARD CLODFELTER (Hubert Humphrey and others) makes his Arena Stage debut after living and working overseas for 30 years. With ADG Europe and TNT Music Theatre Britain he performed in over 90 international productions in 35 countries on three continents, playing leading roles including Lear in King Lear, Claudius in Hamlet, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Banquo in Macbeth, Henry Higgins in Pygmalion and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Off- Broadway he played Mammon in The Alchemist and Carrisford in A Little Princess (Signature Theatre). For 25 years he has directed the longest running production of A Christmas Carol in continental Europe and recently directed the first ever production of The Fantasticks in Costa Rica (Teatro Espressivo).

SHANNON DORSEY

Coretta Scott King and others

SHANNON DORSEY (Coretta Scott King and others), a proud D.C. native, is ecstatic about her Arena Stage debut! D.C. credits include Unexplored Interior (Mosaic Theater Company); the Helen Hayes Award-winning A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Carmen (Kennedy Center/Synetic Theater); Two Trains Running (Round House Theatre); Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, In the Red or Brown Water and Breath, Boom (Studio Theatre); Stick Fly (Everyman Theatre); and The Shipment (Forum Theatre). Regional credits include Safe House and The Trip to Bountiful (Cincinnati Playhouse); A Raisin in the Sun (Perseverance Theatre); The Great MacDaddy (Negro Ensemble Company); The Power of the Trinity (NYC SummerStage); and The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller (NYC’s West End Theatre). Shannon received her B.A. in Theater and African-American Studies at Temple University. She thanks her family and friends for their infinite, loving support.

JABEN EARLY

Stokely Carmichael and others

JABEN EARLY (Stokely Carmichael and others) is a native Washingtonian, previously seen in Ruined at Arena Stage. D.C. credits include Father Comes Home from the Wars (Round House Theatre), Unexplored Interior (Mosaic Theater Company), The Convert (Woolly Mammoth), Julius Caesar (Folger Theatre), F***ing A (Studio Theatre), Native Sun (American Century Theater), Titus Andronicus (Molotov Theatre), Me and The Devil Blues (Flying V), and The Cloak Room (Capital Fringe Festival). Regional credits include We Are Proud to Present… (Philly Interactive Theatre), Ruined (Marin Theatre Company) and The Death of Bessie Smith (Liberty Free Theatre). JaBen trained at Morehouse College, Sarah Lawrence University and the BADA program at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He would like to thank his parents and extended family for their endless support.

DAVID EMERSON TONEY

Roy Wilkins and others

DAVID EMERSON TONEY (Roy Wilkins and others) is happy to return to Arena Stage, where he began his professional career 40 years ago performing in over 42 productions. Broadway credits include Julie Taymor’s Juan Darien and A Free Man of Color, directed by George C. Wolfe. Regional credits include Lucio in Measure for Measure (Folger Theatre); The Persians and Othello (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Jacques in As You Like It (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (Yale Repertory Theatre); and the Fool in King Lear and West in Two Trains Running (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). In 2005 he received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Two Trains Running (African Continuum Theatre Company).

CAMERON FOLMAR

George Wallace and others

CAMERON FOLMAR (George Wallace and others) makes his Arena Stage debut. New York credits include The 39 Steps (Broadway and Off-Broadway) and Volpone, The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta, Five by Tenn and Waiting for Godot (Off-Broadway). Additional credits include Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, An Ideal Husband, Hamlet, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company, affiliated artist); The Habit of Art (Studio Theatre); Five by Tenn (Kennedy Center); The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Don Juan (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Scapin (Denver Center); The Tempest and The Figaro Plays (McCarter Theatre Center); and The Little Foxes (Cleveland Play House). TV credits include Law & Order and Conviction. Cameron is the voice of Genn Greymane on “World of Warcraft.”

RICHMOND HOXIE

J. Edgar Hoover and others

RICHMOND HOXIE (J. Edgar Hoover and others) makes his Arena Stage debut. D.C. credits include Vienna Lusthaus: Revisited (Kennedy Center) and Butley (national tour). He made his Broadway debut in I’m Not Rappaport (also first national tour). Off- Broadway credits include To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square), Lenin’s Embalmers and Louis Slotin Sonata (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Additional credits include Justice and The Dining Room (Playwrights Horizons) and Angel Street (The Pearl). Richmond has performed at many regional theaters, including Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company and Yale Repertory Theatre. Film and TV credits include JFK, Still of the Night, Without a Trace and the various iterations of Law & Order. A stint in LA led to roles in China Beach, L.A. Law and Christine Cromwell.

ADRIENNE NELSON

Lurleen Wallace and others

ADRIENNE NELSON (Lurleen Wallace and others) is thrilled to make her Arena Stage debut. She recently played Helen in Marja- Lewis Ryan’s One in the Chamber, directed by Michael Piazza, and Helena in Occupied Territories, directed by Mollye Maxner (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Best Ensemble). She has performed with Rorschach Theatre, Forum Theatre, Theater Alliance and Catalyst Theater, among others. Adrienne, her cast and director received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography for shkspr prjct (Catalyst Theater). Favorite projects include playing Emma in The God of Hell, Carla Carla in Swimming in the Shallows and performing in Swampoodle (Dublin’s Performance Corporation). Adrienne costarred on House of Cards (Chapter 29) and coached Lars Mikkelsen (Petrov, Russian dialect) and Alexander Sokovikov (Moryakov, accent adjustment) in Season Three (six episodes) and Season Four (three episodes). www.adrienne-nelson.com

LAWRENCE REDMOND

Richard Russell and others

LAWRENCE REDMOND (Richard Russell and others) was last seen at Arena Stage as Oliver Hix in The Music Man. Additional Arena credits include Ruined; A Christmas Carol: 1941; Damn Yankees (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Passion Play, a cycle; South Pacific (Helen Hayes Award nomination); The Misanthrope; The Great White Hope; Guys and Dolls; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Earlier this season he was seen in The Fix (Signature Theatre) and It’s a Wonderful Life (Washington Stage Guild). Other D.C.-area credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and The Government Inspector (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Rock ‘n’ Roll and Jerry Springer: The Opera (Studio Theatre); and The Nutcracker, The Trip to Bountiful, Permanent Collection and A Prayer for Owen Meany (Round House Theatre).

SUSAN ROME

Lady Bird Johnson and others

SUSAN ROME (Lady Bird Johnson and others) makes her Arena Stage debut. D.C.-area credits include The Sisters Rosensweig, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, The Argument, After the Revolution, The Moscows of Nantucket, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Seder and Spring Forward, Fall Back (Theater J); After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonia…, An Enemy of the People and Mud Blue Sky (Center Stage); The Whale, Las Meninas and A Shayna Maidel (Rep Stage); and Richard III, Macbeth and All’s Well That Ends Well (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival). Regional credits include The Substance of Fire (Mark Taper Forum) and The Legacy (Seattle’s Centerstage). TV credits include House of Cards, NYPD Blue and four seasons as DA Ilene Nathan on The Wire. Film credits include A Dirty Shame and My One and Only. SHRM forever!

JOHN SCHERER

Walter Jenkins and others

JOHN SCHERER (Walter Jenkins and others) appeared at Arena Stage in On the Town (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Animal Crackers. At the Kennedy Center, he played Bertie Wooster in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn (Helen Hayes Award nomination). Broadway credits include By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard and LoveMusik, directed by Harold Prince. He also worked with Mr. Prince on the premiere of 3HREE (Ahmanson Theatre). He received the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for his performance in George M! (Goodspeed). Other regional credits include Goodman Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse and many others. Film and TV credits include Spinning Into Butter, Crossing Jordan, The Shield, Law & Order (all three series) and Titus.

STEPHEN F. SCHMIDT

Cartha "Deke" DeLoach and others

STEPHEN F. SCHMIDT (Cartha “Deke” DeLoach and others) returns to Arena Stage after previously performing in Death of a Salesman, Noises Off, Damn Yankees and Guys and Dolls. He recently portrayed Franz in The Producers at Olney Theatre Center, where previous credits include Triumph of Love, Stuff Happens and Crave. Stephen is an associate artist at Ford’s Theatre, where he has appeared in Violet, Hello Dolly! (2014 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble) and 1776. Other D.C. appearances include Urinetown (Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical) and Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical). Stephen’s screen work includes J. Edgar, My One and Only, La Bamba, House of Cards and The Wire. Proud member of Actors Arena.

CRAIG WALLACE

Ralph Abernathy and others

CRAIG WALLACE (Ralph Abernathy and others) returns to Arena Stage after performing in Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, All My Sons, K2 and The Great White Hope. His D.C. credits include performances at Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre and others. Regionally, he has performed at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Craig received his B.F.A. from Howard University and his M.F.A. from Pennsylvania State University.

TOM WIGGIN

Stanley Levison and others

TOM WIGGIN (Stanley Levison and others) is an Alexandria native recently seen in The City of Conversation at Arena Stage. Other D.C. credits include Gus in The Intelligent Homosexuals’s Guide… (Theater J) and Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song (MetroStage). Broadway credits include Grease, Bobbi Boland, Breakfast with Less and Bess and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Lincoln Center). Off- Broadway credits include Livin’ Dolls, The Foreigner and Class Enemy. Primetime TV credits include Mike in Breaking Away, Izzy and Moe, The Bronx Is Burning, Iron Jawed Angels, Law & Order and Kent Turner on CBS’ Person of Interest (upcoming). Daytime TV credits include a 10-year run as Kirk Anderson on As the World Turns. Film credits include Digger, Exposed, Brother to Brother and Phillip Gordon in the Indie release Secrets (upcoming).

JACK WILLIS

President Lyndon Baines Johnson

JACK WILLIS (President Lyndon Baines Johnson) returns to Arena Stage after appearing in Sweat, Mother Courage and Her Children, Book of Days, Of Mice and Men and Agamemnon and His Daughters. Broadway credits include Julius Caesar, The Crucible, Art and The Old Neighborhood. Off-Broadway credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, World of Mirth, The Iphigenia Cycle and Valhalla. He has appeared in more than 200 productions worldwide and been a company member at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company and Dallas Theater Center. Film and TV credits include Toy Story 3, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Cradle Will Rock, The Out-of-Towners, Love Hurts, I Come in Peace, Problem Child, Law & Order, Ed and Dallas.

BOWMAN WRIGHT

Martin Luther King, Jr.

BOWMAN WRIGHT (Martin Luther King, Jr.) was last seen at Arena Stage as King in King Hedley II and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop. Theater credits include Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre Company); TopDog/UnderDog (Marin Theatre Company); A Raisin in the Sun (Geva Theatre Center); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla Playhouse); The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Shakespeare & Company); The Piano Lesson (Virginia Stage); Since Africa and A House with No Walls (Interact Theatre); Fences (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and Death and the King’s Horsemen (Lantern Theatre). Films credits include Sight (Lionsgate Productions) and Vinson (Sainvil Productions). TV credits include Person of Interest, Blue Bloods and Elementary. Bowman is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.