JONATHAN NORTON (Playwright)’s work has been produced and developed at Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville/ Humana Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, LaJolla Playhouse, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce, TheatreSquared, Company One Theatre in Boston, PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, Pyramid Theatre Company, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, African American Repertory Theatre, Soul Rep Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Undermain Theatre, South Dallas Cultural Center, the National Performance Network, and the National New Play Network. Jonathan’s play Mississippi Goddamn was a Finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and won the 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award given by the American Theatre Critics Association. Other awards include: Artistic Innovations Grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, SDCC Diaspora Performing Arts Commission, the TACA Family New Works Fund and the TACA Bowdon Family Foundation Artist Residency Fund, and Jubilee Theatre’s 2019 Eastman Visionary Award. He is the interim Artistic Director at the Dallas Theater Center.
DEXTER J. SINGLETON (Director) is the Director of New Play Development at TheatreSquared, where he has directed A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Carol, Detroit ‘67, and others. He is a director, producer, activist, and educator from Detroit, MI. He is also the Executive Artistic Director of Collective Consciousness Theatre (CCT), a multicultural theatre for social justice in New Haven, CT, which has reached thousands of youth and adults with plays and workshops across the U.S. and Europe since 2007. CCT has produced the work of playwrights Dominique Morisseau, Idris Goodwin, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Katori Hall and many others. His directorial work has been seen at TheatreSquared, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Playhouse on Park, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan, University of Arkansas, Long Wharf Theatre, and many others. Recent credits include Blood At The Root, Kill Move Paradise, Sweat, Skeleton Crew, North of Forbes, Baton, The Mountaintop, and Topdog/ Underdog. He is a member of the Artistic Ensemble at Long Wharf Theatre and a former Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance at the University of Connecticut. He was awarded the 2021 BroadwayWorld Regional Award for Best Director of a Streaming Production for his work on Kill Move Paradise. He is the recipient of the 2019 Artistic Excellence Award from the State of Connecticut and Distinguished Director of a Play for Black Book from The Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
KIMBERLY V. POWERS§ (Scenic Designer) is happy to return to Virginia Stage Company after designing Arsenic and Old Lace in 2024. Her work has been seen at venues across the country, including TheatreSquared, Syracuse Stage, Portland Stage, Riverside Theatre, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Brown/Trinity Rep, Florida Rep, Skylight Music Theatre, City Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Stages, and Northern Stage. She was the Resident Set Designer for Ocean State Theatre Company’s inaugural season and for five years at Ohio Light Opera, as well as the first Design Assistant at The Denver Center Theatre Company. Kim has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs and has freelanced since 2000. She has worked professionally as a scenic artist, muralist, props director, event designer, graphic designer, and exhibit designer. She is part of a team that was awarded the 2022 Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize from OPERA America for their conception of Sweeney Todd.
GLOR MANCILLA-BALOG (Assistant Sound Designer) is ecstatic to join Virginia Stage Company's production of Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem. Their audio credits include Pitt Stages' Mrs. Holmes & Watson Apt. 2B (Ass. Sound Design) and As You Like It (A2). Their stage management credits include Pitt Stage's Dead Man's Cell Phone (ASM), Pitt Player's A Winter's Tale (SM), Mountain Playhouse's Nunsense and ShBoom! Life Could Be a Dream (ASM). Glor would like to thank their loving partner Jostin and family members for endlessly supporting them in chasing their dreams in tech theatre. They would also like to thank their mentors Howard & Tom for all their support and education which has brought them here. They hope you enjoy the show!
TAYLOR K. MESZAROS* (Stage Manager) Taylor is thrilled to be joining VSC for “Malcolm X and Redd Foxx…” She is based in Pittsburgh and spends her time as an AEA Stage Manager and as a Standardized Patient for local university medical programs. Select regional credits include King James (Cleveland Play House), Somewhere Over the Border (People’s Light), Fat Ham (TheatreSquared), White Christmas, The Skin of Our Teeth, Hair! (Berkshire Theatre Group), 12th Night (Public Works), Frida… A Self Portrait, Young Americans, Two Trains Running, and Schoolgirls…(Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Eureka Day, Little Women, Another Kind of Silence, POTUS, Native Gardens, The Garbologists, What the Constitution…, Cambodian Rock Band, The Burdens, Where Did We Sit…Bus?, The Absolute Brightness…, Wild With Happy, Feeding the Dragon, Smart Blonde, and Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir (City Theatre Company). She is eternally grateful for the arts community and its patrons.
§ Member of United Scenic Artists, local USA-829 of the IATSE
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States