Beatrice “Trice” Whitley is a vibrant gifted vocalist, producer, director, workshop speaker, and businesswoman.
Freda is a director, producer, dancer, choreographer, and dance educator. Her work is rooted in community. She serves as artistic director of two dance companies and works tirelessly to bring dance and theatre arts to disadvantaged youth. During the height of COVID she created a free DANCE YOUR HEALTH program to keep folks moving and an InConversation digital platform to support fellow dance artists.
Shanna Lim is a Washington DC-based second-generation immigrant of Chinese Thai, European and Indigenous American descent. She is an interdisciplinary site-specific performance and visual artist whose work is focused on the audience's interactive plain of human connection and shaking the challenges of limited realities.
David Newcomb has been writing for almost sixty years, covering genres that include poetry, plays, a musical, three novels, nonfiction journals on theater and aviation, and a wide range of advocacy pieces for a Washington DC law firm. Retired now and focusing entirely on stage plays, Newcomb has recently completed a history entitled Hercules, Martha, and George, which dramatizes the struggle for freedom by Hercules Posey, President Washington's enslaved chef.
Artistic professional with 10 years of training and performance experience in dance theater in the United States and abroad. I hold a B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from Point Park University. I instruct dance classes for youth and adults as part of my mission to share the joy of movement and dance. Additionally, I am a filmmaker who produces short films featuring original poetry and choreographs for both stage and film. I specialize in both in-person and virtual formats.
Baakari Wilder is internationally known for starring in the Broadway musical Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk. He received a Bessie Award for his performance, and later assumed the lead role for a year. He received the Pola Nirenska Award for achievement in dance, and the “Hoofer Award” by the American Tap Dance Foundation. Baakari's dancing has delighted audiences around the world in places such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, France, Africa, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and Russia.