MARIKO NAKASONE** (MARIE-ANN, ENSEMBLE) Regional credits include Arms and the Man, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol (The Guthrie Theater); Our Town, The Clay Cart, Henry VIII, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Quixote, The Music Man (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Diary of Anne Frank, Pericles (The Utah Shakespeare Festival); and Children of Eden (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Mariko is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she appeared in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Fox Play, and What a Very Pretty Pageant!. At Yale Cabaret: This and Chamber Music. Mariko can currently be seen on FOX in the show DragonflyTV, on which she has appeared for four seasons. Mariko is a graduate of Boston University and attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
BABS OLUSANMOKUN* (CHRISTOPH, SMOLIK, ENSEMBLE) Babs (Babatunde) Olusanmokun is making his Yale Rep debut. He was last seen on stage in Arena Stage’s critically acclaimed production of Ruined (directed by Charles Randolph-Wright). He has performed in New York at theatres such as La MaMa E.T.C., La MaMa Annex, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Soprano’s Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante (Ponies), New York International Fringe Festival, and HERE Arts Center. TV credits include Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, Veronica Mars, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Mr. Olusanmokun can be seen in director Andrew Dosunmu’s 2013 Sundance sensation Mother of George.
JESSE J. PEREZ* (SOUL-FRIEDA, WRITER, ENSEMBLE) previously appeared in Yale Rep’s productions of The Servant of Two Masters (2009), Lulu (2007), The Cherry Orchard (2005), and The Taming of the Shrew (2003). His New York credits include Triple Happiness (Second Stage Theatre), Barrio Girl (Summer Play Festival), Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons), In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), Up Against the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop), and Lucia di Lammermoor (The Metropolitan Opera). Regional theatre productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare on the Sound); Hard Weather Boating Party (Humana Festival of New Plays); Arabian Nights (Berkeley Rep); Argonautika, Looking Glass Alice, Cascabel (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Pericles, Candide (Goodman Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre); The Servant of Two Masters (The Shakespeare Theatre, Guthrie Theater); and Hamlet (McCarter Theatre Center). Film and television: American Splendor, Enter Nowhere, Playing God, Kazaam, Person of Interest, Life on Mars, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The Job, and Third Watch. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School. 19