NANCY MARIE (she/her) (DOTTY) is an award-winning performing artist, author & educator. She made her unofficial stage debut during the curtain call of the 1967 Broadway production of Hello Dolly, featuring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and Morgan Freeman, when her father placed her on stage to say hello to Ms. Bailey. Her official stage debut was in the Joseph Papp Public Theater’s Shakespeare Festival production of The Wedding Band, alongside Ruby Dee, preceded by her television debut on Wonderama & followed by her screen debut in Fame. She played the role of Masani in both the 2012 and 2015 productions of Cheril Bey Clarke’s award-winning play, Asylum, and originated the role of Denida in Kash Goin’s critically acclaimed prison drama, V to X. Her performance as Chelle in the 2017 Philadelphia premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67 at Stagecrafters earned her a Best Actress nomination from BroadwayWorld. In 2018, she portrayed Elizabeth “Mum Bett,” Freeman (the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit for freedom in the state of Massachusetts) in Wawa’s Women of the Revolution on NBC Television. Her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in the 2022 Theatre in the X production of Richard III earned her a second BroadwayWorld nomination for Best Supporting Performer. Nancy is excited to perform at the South Camden Theatre Company for the first time. Learn about her other production credits and achievements at https://linktr.ee/the_nancy_marie

TASHA HOLMES (SHELLY) is a Philly-based actor and writer originally from Virginia. Recent Credits include One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Beverly) with Theatre in the X, Ghetto Gods in Divineland (Geikyla) with Passage Theatre, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Dussie Mae) with the Ritz Theatre; Zooman & the Sign (Grace Georges) with Theatre in the X; Secrets (Lisa) at the Plays and Players Theatre; & Say it Aint So (Voice of Renny) with Revolution Shakespeare. Currently, she is working on a web series titled “A Song for Nia.” In addition to acting, Tasha is an author and has self-published two children’s books, “Belly Button” and “Nose Bubbles”. Tasha is elated for this opportunity to share space with talented artists and to tell this story.

MALIK MUHAMMAD (he/him) (DONNIE) is beyond excited to make his SCTC debut in DOT! A Philadelphia-based actor, with recent credits including Booker T. Washington Ragtime, Nostradamus Something Rotten, Signor Nacerelli Light in the Piazza, Kerchak Tarzan, Delray Farrell Memphis, & Curtis Taylor Jr. Dreamgirls. As a staunch advocate for the power of storytelling in multiple facets, he’s honored to have another opportunity to impact his community at large with the power of his voice and this beautiful show that explores the depths of family dynamics. @askmalik92

JANAN ASHTON (she/her) (AVIRIE) is an actress/spoken word artist from Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Ashton began performing and studying acting at the tender age of 4, starting At The New Freedom Theatre. For over 25+ years, she’s been in numerous plays, including the critically acclaimed Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet by Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls. as Lady in Red. Ms. Ashton has also had numerous on-screen opportunities, landing leading roles in Dear Miss and Lowest Places: Lost Time. Aside from performing, Ms. Ashton feels like her best self when she can take off the mask and just “be,” thanks to the continuous support and push from her 11-year-old, double-trouble twins, Autumn and Brian. 

CHRISTOPHER DAVID ROCHE (he/him) (ADAM) is a North Philadelphia-based actor, singer, assistant teaching artist, and theatre maker. Select training: Albright College, B.A. Theatre (Acting/Directing), B.A. History, Minor in Voice; 2004 Grammy Nominee, Jeffrey Lentz’s, voice studio. Select theatrical credits: This Is Reading w/Lynn Nottage (LAByrinth Theatre Company); Ballad of Trayvon Martin as George Zimmerman, Othello: the Panther (Freedom Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare in Clark Park), Camelot (Sierra Rep. Theatre); Die Fledermaus (Berks Opera). In addition, he has performed around the Philly area with the Arden Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, People’s Light & Theatre, Philly Young Playwrights, Gretna Theatre, Irish Heritage Theatre, South Camden Theatre Company, Museum of the American Revolution, and many others. Select film/TV/web credits: Market Road Films, Hot Snakes Media, and Destination America. Upcoming: Loom with Cannonball Festival & Philly Young Playwrights; directed by Gabriele Preston. www.ChristopherDavidRoche.com.

BASTION CARBONI (he/him) (FIDEL) Recent credits: Carla/Tryphoena Turds in Hell; EgoPo), Rexi/Jason The Legend of Georgia McBride; SCTC), Martin Incorruptible; SCTC. Bastion is also a monologist under his drag persona, Pilar Salt, and a playwright/director. Love to his extraordinary and priceless friends.

ALLI SMALLEY (JACKIE) is thrilled to be making her South Camden Theatre Company debut in a play that doesn’t have “murder” in its title: previous roles include Jackie in Murder on the Nile (Players Club of Swarthmore) and Mitzi in A Murder is Announced (Laurel Mill Playhouse). Alli has also starred in several audio dramas and short films, including Mirror Image, which she wrote and co-directed earlier this year. She is a proud graduate of The William Esper Studio in New York and is infinitely grateful to her parents, sister, and friends for their unwavering support.

August Fen DeLuca (they/them) (STAGE MANAGER) is super excited to stage manage another production at SCTC! As a stage manager and actor based in South Jersey, they were last seen on stage at the Ritz Theatre as Mina in Dracula. August has an associate’s degree in theatre from Camden County College and is currently working toward becoming an elementary special ed teacher. August would like to thank their friends and family for all their love and support. Enjoy the show!

Zuhairah McGill — Director

An award-winning director and actress from Brooklyn, New York, she is the Artistic Director of First World Theatre; Associate Artist with The Town Street Theatre in LA. And an award-winning Director who has directed Off-Broadway. She is the Recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Award, where she worked with Broadway Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks. She has worked with Academy Award Nominee Colman Domingo, Woodie King Jr., Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames, Walter Dallas, and Gregory and Maurice Hines. She trained with Uta Hagen, Ossie Davis, and H. German Wilson. Some of her works include: ‘Screaming For Life’ Off-Broadway, ‘Sister Sonja’, Off-Broadway, ‘Sojourner’ National Black Theatre, ‘Ladysitting’ Arden Theatre, ‘The Royale’ Lantern Theatre, ‘Flyin West’ Quintessence Theatre’, ‘The Mountaintop’ Santa Fe Playhouse, ‘Eubie’ Walnut St Theatre, ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’, ‘Hairspray’ Steel River Playhouse Theatre, ‘For Colored Girls’ First World Theatre. 

She was the producer of the C. Dolores Tucker Martin Luther King Non-Violence Award Ceremony, working with the late great Cicely Tyson and Joe Frazier. She is a 4-time Barrymore nominee and a 2-time Barrymore winner. She sat on the panel with August Wilson for “A Conversation of August Wilson’s Work.” She was invited to The National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC, where she performed her one-woman, award-winning show “SOJOURNER” By Richard Lamonte Pierce.

Zuhairah is happy to make her directorial debut here at South Camden. Thank you, Dawn, Robert, the crew, and cast for your trust in me. To my family…AMANDELA!

Colman Domingo —Playwright

Colman Domingo produced and starred in Sing Sing, which was nominated for 3 Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, and Best Performance by a Leading Actor. Colman was also nominated for the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, AACTA, Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, Astra, and won the renowned Montecito Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the prestigious Spotlight Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Satellite, Gotham, and over 25 Regional Critics Awards for his performance. 

Colman Domingo is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, Astra, and Satellite Award-nominated for his starring role as Bayard Rustin in the film Rustin. He received the Spotlight Award | Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, as well as the Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Colman has received the 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival Honor | Outstanding Performance and was honored by the Critics’ Choice Association with the Actor Award for Film in Rustin. Domingo starred as Mister in the musical motion picture The Color Purple. A two-time Film Independent Spirit, Gotham, SAG, Critics’ Choice, NAACP Image, Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League, and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for his work on stage and screen, Colman is an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award-winning actor, playwright, director, and producer. Colman landed a historic double win of Lead Actor and Supporting Actor Awards at the 2024 NAACP Image Awards.

Domingo was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Production of a Play for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham on Broadway. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama, a Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Limited Series/Anthology, and an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role as Ali in the HBO series Euphoria. Colman stars in an eight-part limited series for Netflix entitled The Madness, directed by Clement Virgo, due in 2024. Mr. Domingo takes on a role of Joe Jackson in the Universal Pictures biopic Michael, directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Colman has starred in some of the most profound films in recent years, such as Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Lee Daniels The Butler, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, and Janicza Bravo’s Zola. As a writer, his plays and musicals include Dot (Samuel French), Wild with Happy (Dramatist Play Service), and A Boy and His Soul (Oberon Books), the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Geffen Playhouse’s groundbreaking musical Light’s Out: Nat King Cole. His plays have been produced by The Public Theater, Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse, Humana Festival of New American Plays, New York Stage and Film, A.C.T, The Tricycle Theater in London, Brisbane Powerhouse in Australia, among others. 

Domingo received his Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Ursinus College. Colman is a member of the Board of Directors of The Gotham Film & Media Institute and has served as a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School and as a faculty member of the Yale School of Drama. He has been honored with the inaugural Denver Film CinemaQ-LaBahn Ikon Film Award, the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award, the Creative Coalition Television Humanitarian Award, and the Atlanta’s Out On Film Icon Award. Through his award-winning production company, Edith Productions, Colman develops television, film, theater and animation projects. 

Meet the Creative Team for this production

Hunter Mountz (Lighting Designer)

Hunter is a Philadelphia-based theatre and dance lighting designer whose previous design credits include The Lightning Thief (Triple Threat Theatre Company), Who’s Holiday, The Toxic Avenger – The Musical, God of Carnage, Hollywood Nebraska, How The Light Gets In, and A Good Farmer (South Camden Theatre Company) Into the Woods, The Laramie Project, Bedroom Farce (Salem State University) Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Mamma Mia! , The SpongeBob Musical (Panthers-on-Parade) Dare to Dream, and When Worlds Collide (SSU Repertory Dance Theatre). Hunter also received the Excellence in Lightning Design award from the 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. 

Jairous L. Parker Sr. (Sound Designer) 

Jairous is thrilled to be part of The South Camden Theatre Company’s Creative team for ‘DOT’! Jairous is a Philadelphia-based sound designer and audio engineer. He most recently designed and mixed sound for The Philadelphia Dramatists’ Center’s 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival,‘Steering Wild’, ‘Happy Enough’, ‘Kulkalcan’, and Storybook Musical Theatre’s 2024/25 theater season. Mr. Parker has designed and mixed sound for a diverse group of performing arts organizations, Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, ‘Ladysitting’ Lantern Theater, ‘The Royale’ Quintessence Theatre, ‘Flyin West’, Hedgerow Theatre, ‘Good Grief’, NYC’s Manhattan Theater Club, and Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Highlights of Mr. Parker’s career include serving as Senior Sound Designer and engineer for several seasons at New Freedom Theatre and engineering sound for more than 1100 performances of ‘Menopause The Musical’ at the Society Hill Playhouse. Jairous dedicates his work on ‘DOT’ to the joyous memory of his beloved mother, Gloria Lyon-Parker Harris, uncle Freddie Gary Sr., dear friend and colleague, Actors Equity PSM, and actor, William ‘Chris’ Whalen, who most recently succumbed to Alzheimer’s and Dementia. “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James M. Barrie

Ali Turns (she/her)(Costume Designer)

Ali is the 2024 AUDELCO NOMINEE for BEST COSTUMES, NFTS production of “The World According to Micki Grant,” Directed by Nora Cole, produced by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The whole production was nominated for THE 2024 DRAMA DESK NOMINEE for BEST MUSICAL REVUE, for “The World According to Micki Grant”. Ali is the proud winner of the 2017~2018 AUDELCO Award, for best Costume Design for “A SOLDIER’S PLAY” produced by NEC and directed by the late Charles Weldon. The 2013 AUDELCO Award, for Best Costume Design for “THE FABULOUS MISS MARIE”, produced by Woodie King, New Federal Theatre. She is the winner of the 2012 AUDELCO Award for Best Costume Design for “COURT MARTIAL – at FORT DEVENS”, produced by Woodie King, Jr.’s, New Federal Theatre, and the 2011 AUDELCO AWARD, for Best Costume Design for ”KNOCK ME A KISS”, also produced by Woodie King, New Federal Theatre. Ali has enjoyed working for such greats in the ‘biz’ as Ms. Ruby Dee, in” LAST DANCE FOR SYBIL”, a play written for her by her husband Ossie Davis; co-directed by Lloyd Richards and Ed Smith. Ali has also worked with Tony Award-winning Tarzana Beverly, as King Lear in” KING LEAR” and “MEDEA”, directed by Petronia Paley, both produced by TWAS. Ali attended FIT and went on to work as a Fashion and Beauty copywriter for Essence Magazine.

Ali taught at the University of Michigan with Professor Glenda Dickerson and completed the docu-filming of “A Kitchen Prayer Performance and Dialogue Series”, filmed by Angela Gibbs. Ali has most recently taught her Master Class in Costume Design at the University of Louisville and designed the costumes for “Monsieur Baptist, the Con Man”, directed by Dr. Deana Thomas, in her final year at UofL. Ali also enjoyed and earned a reputation for excellence as a master artist and a costume designer. Ms Turns is committed to instilling this way of thinking with the next generation of artists to go on and take their place in the continuing rise of our young people in design, performing, telling our stories, and breaking through the glass ceiling that exists for us. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Pam Staley (Props Master)

Pam is delighted to work in the theatre with her friend, Artistic Director Dawn Varava, at SCTC. Her past experiences included managing props and all things backstage for Dawn during many of her school productions. She has been jumping in to help SCTC be the best we can be for all of our shows.

Robert Bingaman (Scenic Designer)

Robert is deeply grateful for the support he receives from the creative staff and the South Camden Theatre Company board of directors. He has been SCTC’s board president and resident scenic designer since 2010. His favorite sets include The Brothers Size, By The Water, The Toxic Avenger, Exorcism (A Play in One Act), The Legend of Georgia McBride, and How the Light Gets In (Thanks to Deb and the crew for all their help), among more than 40 other productions here. He knows that he couldn’t do any of this work without the incredible support of so many volunteers here at the theatre. Thanks to each of them for bringing theatre magic to our stage. Love to is husband, Steve.

Meghan Malloy (she/her) (Dialect Coach/Production Manager)

Meghan is completing her second and final season with SCTC as Production Manager. She is very grateful for the opportunity and has learned remarkable lessons about production. Meghan recently returned to the industry after a 11-year hiatus raising her children. Before this, Meghan was a full-time actor and teaching artist. Meghan received a Barrymore nomination for her work at the Wilma Theater in Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa!  It was a joy to share the stage with legendary actor Glynn Turman (HBO’s The Wire, Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Yaegel Welch (Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird) in that incredible three-hander play.  

Meghan has worked with genres ranging from children’s musical theatre to Shakespeare and new works. Meghan is a Knight-Thompson Speechwork-trained accent and dialect coach, specializing in accents from Delaware County and Philadelphia. She zooms with actors all over the country for their auditions and training daily. She recently voiced a PA Lottery Powerball Commercial. Meghan currently teaches acting for the camera at The Actors Lab in Montgomery County, PA, and at Lights, Camera, Acting! in Bucks County, PA—Point Park University and Upper Darby Summer Stage alum. Visit www.MeghanMalloyCreates.com, IG & YouTube:  @meghan.malloy.creates to learn more about her work—heartfelt thanks to Dawn and Bob.