![]() Saadi has played and with whom, visit his website at DEVANAND JANKI ( Director) is an award-winning Director-Choreographer based in New YorkĬity, originally from Canada. Saadi is happy to be back performing in CT, where he studiedĪt the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. Saadi also performs in media and commercials and can be seen in a music videoĮarlier this year. He has performed in manyĬountries throughout the world, including a US State Department tour of Africa. Played in numerous Broadway pits and National Tours. Versatility has made him a good fit for modern musical theater and he has Including jazz, classical, R&B, Pop, Latin jazz and world music. Was only afforded to him by moving to NYC.Ĭity, bassist Saadi Zain is versed in a multitude of musical genres Often exiting the city on tour, discovering new worlds – a career twist that Salters, after nearly 15 years in his adoptive home of New York, finds himself ![]() Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Joshua Henry, and the late Aretha Franklin. Since moving to New York in 2006, he has worked with luminaries in On to pursuing his studies as a percussion major at the University of SouthĬarolina. Theatre Arts. She is the proud mother of 7 year old son, Rohan.īorn in New Haven, CT, and raised in Columbia, SC, Salters began his musicalĬareer on trombone for one year before switching to percussion and continuing University (MFA), and did her undergraduate work at Alabama State University in Laiona Michelle resides in New York City. ![]() Organization providing access to the performing arts, and located in herīlack woman, Laiona believes in the importance of “owning our stories.” SheĬhampions the idea of breaking down stereotypes that would box her in or typeĬast her, therefore limiting her ability to grow. Several children’s plays/musicals for Dream Studios, a not-for-profit arts Showtime’s Lift , ABC’s All My Children , NBC’s Law & Order SVU and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Laiona has also made appearances on network and cable television in Westport Country Playhouse and many more. The United States including the Arena Stage, Colorado Shakespeare Festival,Īlabama Shakespeare Festival, The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Honed her skills, performing at some of the most renowned regional theatres in Laiona was part of the First National tour of Theīook of Mormon. Michelle is the recipient of the The NAACP HollywoodĪward, Barrymore and Carbonell Awards (2005, Constant #HOTELS NEAR GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE CT FULL#I want to do.” Since that time, she has been developing her skills as a writer,Īctress and singer, constantly working on expanding the full range of her Was taken to see a Shakespearean production and knew immediately, “This is what Shakespeare as the reason that she fell in love with theatre. Woman stolen away from her family by slave traders, she delivers one of the National notoriety when she made her Broadway debut in 2015, in the Release to become the nation’s President. Writer, for Mandela, a new musical based on Nelson Mandela’s life from hisĭays as a leading activist against Apartheid, to his imprisonment and eventual Most recently she has taken on the mantle of book Musical, which launched its world-premiere engagement at the George Street MA native added writer to her resume with her double bill as writer and star of ![]() MICHELLE ( Writer / Nina Simone) Springfield, Premiere Production Presented by George Street Playhouse, February 1, 2019.ĭirector | Kelly Ryman, Managing Directorīy Live & In Color, Artistic Director Devanand Janki Run Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes (including an intermission) Feel the passion, joy and pain of a woman adored by millions – then and now. Honest and powerful portrait of her rich life and her ultimate decline. Priestess of Soul,” this story taps into the legend that is Nina Simone with an ChambersĪUG 4 - 29 Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical is an exuberant new musical with a tour-de-force performance byĪward-winning actor Laiona Michelle. Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical By Special Arrangement with Rashad V. ![]()
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