ELISE KELIAH BENSON RAYNELL
Elise is 11 years old and a sixth grader at the Oaks Academy Middle School. This is her debut at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, but she has appeared in a few local high school productions. She was a ballerina in The Wizard of Oz and appeared in Cinderella as a little sister in the town. She was one of two students selected to represent her school in a speech presentation of “Ain’t I a Woman.” Elise loves to sing and is currently taking dance classes. Her dream is one day to become an actress. “I am thrilled to be performing in my first professional production!”
MARCUS NAYLOR JIM BONO
Marcus is making his IRT debut. His Off-Broadway credits include Black Stars of the Great White Way at Carnegie Hall, Breaking Phillip Glass with The Collective, Cool Blues at New Federal Theatre, Love Letters on Ripped Paper at the Joyce Theatre, Watin 2 End Hell at the New Federal Theatre, The Cave Dwellers with the Pearl Theatre Company, No Dogs at Primary Stages, RATS at the Lee Strasberg Theatre, True West at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio, and Cast Me Down at Theatre Four. Regional credits include Denver Center, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Cleveland Play House, Karamu House, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Crossroads Theatre, and Shakespeare on the Sound. Film and television credits include In Our Youth, Hudson Sunset in the After-While, The Reunion: A Jazz Fantasy, King Lear, Slings and Arrows, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Without a Trace, The Meeting, Malcolm X, and Only in America.
EDGAR SANCHEZ CORY
Edgar is making his IRT debut. His Chicago credits include Water by the Spoonful and Native Son at the Court Theatre; The Wheel at Steppenwolf; Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; This Is Our Youth with Sankofa Theatre Company; The Ghost Is Here with Vitalist; Fever Chart with Eclipse; Brothers of the Dust at Congo Square; Sinbad: The Untold Story with Adventure Stage; 1001 with Collaboraction; Red Noses Remount with Strawdog; Welcome to Arroyo’s at American Theatre Company; and Wilson Wants It All at The House. Regional credits include Water by the Spoonful at Theatre Squared; the title role in Hamlet at the Gable Stage; Twelfth Night, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, and The Admirable Crichton at American Players Theatre; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, and The Comedy of Errors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been seen on television’s Sense 8.
KIM STAUNTON ROSE
Kim is making her IRT debut. She has been a guest company member at the Denver Center Theatre Company for the past 14 seasons, and she represented the company as an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at Ten Chimneys Foundation. Regional credits include Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, Ebony Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Lone Tree Arts Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, and the O’Neill Theatre Center. She has performed in numerous productions on and off Broadway. Film credits include First Sunday, Changing Lanes, Heat, Dragonfly, Bark, Holy Man, Deceived, and Amos & Andrew. Television appearances have included guest starring roles on Eleventh Hour, Army Wives, The Nine, Bones, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, Law and Order, City of Angels, New York Undercover, and TNT’s original movie Glory and Honor. Kim is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of the Juilliard School. 27