The Colored Museum

Jemier Jenkins was most recently seen as Blanche Dubois in African-American Shakespeare Company's (AASC) production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Other regional credits include: Molly in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (American Stage); Rena in Jitney (AASC). New York Credits include: Sonnet #128 The Sonnet Project presented by Shakespeare Exchange, Wonder Woman in Sex, Relantionships & Sometimes Love (The Producers Club). Jemier serves as the Executive Director of Tampa Bay Black Theatre Ensemble. Her play, AKIMBO, has been selected to compete in Winterfest - New York Theatre Festival this fall in the full length category. She's also an alumna of Lakewood High School's Center for Advanced Technology, Florida State University (Bright Future Scholar), and William Esper Studio. She is grateful to be a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Alicia Thomas is a Detroit native but calls NYC home too. She’s overjoyed to return to the stage for her first full production since March 2020! Select Regional Theatre: Dreamgirls (Mill Mountain Theatre), A Lion and Winter and Crumbs from the Table of Joy (freeFall Theatre), The Producers (American Stage), A Raisin in the Sun (The Barn), Raisin (Astoria Performing Arts Center), Off Broadway: Heist! National Tour Junie B. Jones. Select Workshops and Readings: Mile Square Theatre, American Stage, Prospect Theatre Company, The Directors Company, Project Shaw, Corkscrew Festival. So much love and gratitude to her wise and full-of-joy tribe of loved ones.

Yewande Odetoyinbo a Detroit is excited to be making her American Stage Company debut in The Colored Museum. Credits include: Lyric Stage: The Light , Breath & Imagination with Front Porch Arts Collective (IRNE Award Winner), The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors. SpeakEasy Stage Company: Once on This Island, The View Upstairs. Moonbox Productions: Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change (Elliot Norton Nomination), Parade. American Repertory Theatre: Macbeth in Stride. New Repertory Theater: Hair. Reagle Music Theatre and Fiddlehead Theatre: Show Boat. Boston Theatre Company: Finish Line, The Gay Agenda. Wheelock Family Theatre: In the Heights, Seussical, Ragtime. Merrimack Repertory Theater: Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!.  Barnstormers Theatre: Waitress. Choreography: Wheelock Family Theatre: Once on this Island Jr. Moonbox Productions: Caroline, or Change. SpeakEasy Stage Company: Choir Boy (Elliot Norton Nomination). Education: BFA, Musical Theater, Howard University; MFA, Musical Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee. A huge thank you to the American Stage Company and this amazing cast and crew. Also thanks to Mom, Dad, Yemisi, and her best friends for being her biggest supporters.

Brandon Burditt is excited to join American Stage for the first time! Burditt is a proud alumni of Morehouse College (‘18). He was most recently seen at the Alliance Theatre in Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Past credits include Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Hands Up (Alliance Theatre); A Midsummer's Night Dream, Cymbeline (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Gem of the Ocean (Illinois Theatre); Seven Guitars and Hoodoo Love (Spelman College). He has written a one-act play honoring survivors of sexual assault titled Interviews which awarded him a grant from Morehouse. The play has been performed at both Morehouse and Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

Jermaine Robinson Jr.* was last seen in the pilot episode of the FOX series, The Big Leap. His other regional credits include understudy in The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens Theater), Killing Game (A Red Orchid Theater), and Trouble in Mind (Goodman Theater). Jermaine currently serves as a script writer for Youth Voices Rising: which provides digital audio content for youth audiences to promote healing and wellness. He also serves on the mentorship committee board for the Broadway Black Men Collective. Thank you God, thank you mom, thank you family, thank you friends. This is full circle: Thank you Erica Sutherlin for believing in me. It takes just one teacher to "see" you. Then, it's your job to take off running & live on purpose, even if it scares you at times.

Andresia Moseley is a classically trained and award-winning actress. Moseley was recently seen in the sold out productions of the Starz Center for the Performing Arts musical, Crowns and Stageworks Theatre’s The Color Purple. Moseley toured nationally as the lead character in Speed Killed my Cousin with the Carpetbag Theatre Inc. Her performance in Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight Los Angeles was named “the best performance of 2020” by Broadway World. Her performance as Kendra in Stageworks Theatre production of American Son was declared: “A masterclass performance by an actress” Broadway World (2021). She also received an honorable mention in The Wall Street Journal for her performance as Ms. Muller in Jobsite Theatre’s Doubt: A Parable (2021). She is currently an ASU Gammage artist in residence for the development of her one woman show Five Black Women nationally touring and premiering 2024.

Clay Christopher is happy to be making his American Stage debut especially with such an important piece of theatre. Clay graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) LA campus. Since Graduating, Clay has performed at Disneyland, Universal Studios and worked as Cruise Director for Norwegian Cruise Line. Clay starred in the horror/comedy film The Complex (2011). Clay is also a professional Voice over actor. Clay is grateful to American Stage, his agents at level talent group, and most importantly his family. including his wife and daughter.