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Lindsey Steed
Lydia R. Diamond
In April of 1969, Lydia Diamond was born Lydia Gartin in Detroit, Michigan. After her parents divorced at a young age, Lydia was raised chiefly by her mother, who was a musician. Since she grew up in a very artistic family, Lydia always found herself drawn to the arts. Her artistic inclinations kept her company…
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Lindsey Steed
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18th, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Racial discrimination was a constant in her life from a young age, with the owner of her family’s apartment setting fire to the building with the Woffords inside after they fell behind on rent. In a 1993 interview she commented on…
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Lindsey Steed
Kamal Bolden
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Debut! Cholly, The Bluest Eye. ELSEWHERE: Off-Broadway: AUDELCO Award for Reparations (Billie Holiday Theatre), The Opponent (59E59St), Hands Up (National Black Theatre). Regional: Troy in Fences (American Blues Theatre), Immediate Family (Mark Taper Forum), Father Comes Home From The Wars… (Goodman Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Victory Gardens…
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Lindsey Steed
Indira Tyler
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Debut! Choreographer, The Bluest Eye. ELSEWHERE: Pamona College: Head Over Heals. Antaeus Theatre Glendale: Native Son. Boston Court Theatre Pasadena: Both And. USC McClintock Theatre: Mocking Bird. Azusa Pacific: As it is in Heaven. LAUSD: Once on This Island, Hairspray, In the Heights, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man, Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story,…
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Lindsey Steed
Suzen Baraka, she/her/hers
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Fred’s Wife/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol; Understudy Maureen, The Bluest Eye ELSEWHERE: Can I Touch It?, Rogue Machine Theater; Two Stop, Inkwell Theater; Grounded, Denizen Theater; 12 Ophelias, Atlantic Theater Company. FILM/TV: The Other Two, HBO/Max; Blue Bloods, CBS; Break, Showdown Productions. In 2018, Suzen Baraka pivoted from her legal career to train at the Atlantic Theater…
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Lindsey Steed
Andrew Schmedake, he/him/his
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Debut! Lighting Designer, The Bluest Eye. Andrew Schmedake is an award-winning lighting designer and technical director for the arts and live entertainment. Recent credits include designs for Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Boston Court, Rubicon Theatre Company and Antaeus Theatre Company as well as events for Billie Eilish, Olivia…
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Lindsey Steed
Arielle Hightower, she/her/hers
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Assistant Stage Manager, The Bluest Eye, King Hedley II ELSEWHERE: Almost, Maine, She Kills Monsters, Cabaret, CSUF College of the Arts; REVERB TAP COMPANY at Old Town Temecula Community Theater EDUCATION: BA — Theatre Arts with an Emphasis in Stage Management, CSUF
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Lindsey Steed
Mildred Marie Langford, she/her/hers
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2024-25 Season: Glady Antrobus, The Skin of Our Teeth Previous Seasons: Frieda/Darlene, The Bluest Eye. ELSEWHERE: Boulevard of Bold Dreams, A Raisin in the Sun (BTAA Nomination), My Kind of Town and In Darfur (Black Excellence Award Nomination), Timeline Theatre; The Great Jheri Curl Debate, East West Players; Intimate Apparel (BTAA, Jeff Award and Black Excellence Award Nominations…
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Lindsey Steed
Crystal Yvonne Jackson
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Debut! Mama, The Bluest Eye. ELSEWHERE: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Tillie, Marvin’s Room as Aunt Ruth, Our Town as the Stage Manager, and The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad. Crystal also loves to produce theatre: The Human Comedy, Marvin’s Room, She Loves Me, A Body of Water, and The Water Tribe. EDUCATION: Howard University….
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Lindsey Steed
Alexandra Metz
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 2023-24 Season: Debut! Maureen Peal, The Bluest Eye. ELSEWHERE: The Bluest Eye, The Providence Black Repertory Company. Founding member of 501c3 theatre company Public Assembly here in Los Angeles. TV/FILM: Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Chicago Fire, Once Upon a Time, Single By 30, The Good Wife, Blue…
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