Kelvin Roston Jr. is excited to be back at Northlight with this show! Off-Broadway: Donny Hathaway, Twisted Melodies (Apollo); Regional: Sterling Johnson, Radio Golf (The Black Rep STL); Wiz, The Wiz (Fulton); Mister, The Color Purple (MSMT); Caesar Wilks, Gem of the Ocean (Goodman); Oedipus,
Oedipus Rex and The Gospel at Colonus, Othello, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (Court); James Thunder Early, Dreamgirls (Fulton, MSMT, Marriott- Lincolnshire, Orb [Tokyo, Japan], Festival Hall [Osaka, Japan]); Jackie Wilson, My Heart is Crying (Black Ensemble); Donny Hathaway, Twisted Melodies (Congo Square, The Black Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Mosaic, Apollo[NY, NY]), and many others. TV: South Side, Chicago Med, Chicago PD, KFC, Instant Care, Ace Hardware. Film:
Get a Job, Princess Cyd, Breathing Room. Awards: Jeff Award, 4 BTA Awards, 3 Black Excellence Awards, NAMI Award, Court Theater’s 2019/20 Nicholas Rudall Classic Artist Award. Kelvin is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, a Congo Square Ensemble Member, and represented by Paonessa Talent and Michael Moore Agency!

is from Smithfield, Virginia, and is grateful to be a part of this cast. Regional Credits: Twisted Melodies (Northlight Theatre); Fat Ham and Firework. (Unicorn Theatre); Julius Caesar, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Seven Guitars, The Amen Corner (KC Melting Pot Theater); Choir Boy (Zeider’s American Dream Theater); A Soldier’s Play (The Virginia Arts Festival); The Wiz, The Tempest and A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage Company); Commercial: US Foods, NFL’s Vet To Vote, Costco, and Chinet. Education: MFA in Acting and Directing at UMKC Conservatory and BA in Drama and Theatre, Norfolk State University.

is a director and actor based in Chicago, Illinois. He hails from Buffalo, New York, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s professional theatre program. He is a resident artist at Chicago’s Court Theatre, a company member at Timeline Theatre, and a former associate artist at Writers Theatre, and Teatro Vista. He is the co-founder and former Artistic Director of The Onyx Theatre Ensemble. He has worked at various theatres in and around Chicago, around the country, and in Canada. Most recently, he directed Hymn at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Some Chicago credits include The Chicago Theatre Company, Victory Gardens, American Blues Theatre, American Theatre Company, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Dramatists, Court, Black Ensemble Theatre, Congo Square Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Urban Theatre Company, City Lit Theatre Theater, ETA Creative Arts, and Writers Theatre Regional credits include Studio Arena Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinati, American Players Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Roundabout Theatre, Wilshire Theatre, Studio Theatre, Center Stage Baltimore, St. Louis Black Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Signature Theatre (New York), Kansas City Rep, Portland Stage Company, Paul Robeson Theatre (Buffalo) Ujima Theatre Company, and Indiana Repertory Theatre Among others. In Canada, he directed the world premiere of Palmer Park by Joanna McClelland Glass, A World Premiere at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Ron would like to dedicate this production to the memory of Jonathon Wilson. He is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and SDC. www.ronojparson.net

last seen in 50 Years of Northlight Music and Marie and Rosetta, is a multi-hyphenate artist. Timeout Chicago calls her “phenomenal”, and Showbiz Chicago raves, “Roston holds the audience in the palm of her hand”. She began her directing path in 2004 with a play she wrote, directed, and performed for her church called Redemptive Power. Years later, with much encouragement from her theatre village (primarily Congo Square Theatre Company and Black Ensemble Theater, but surely the Chicagoland theatre community at large), she began assistant directing TYA (theatre for young audiences) and staged readings. In 2014, after ten years of performing the annual favorite Black Nativity with Congo Square, Roston adapted and directed her own Christmas story entitled More Than A Miracle: A Nativity Story. Congo Square requested a name reversal, and the show premiered as A Nativity Story: More Than A Miracle. Other credits include Defacing Michael Jackson (Flying Elephants Productions, director, Black Theater Alliance nomination for Best Direction of an Ensemble), Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill (MercuryTheatre Chicago, co-director/performer, Jeff Award for Best Solo Performance), Sunflowered (Northern Sky Theater, co-director/co-choreographer/performer) and Twisted Melodies (Congo Square Theatre Company for the International Black Theatre Festival, director). Roston is a proud member of Congo Square Theatre Company and represented by Paonessa Talent.

is is returning to Northlight where he recently designed Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and last season’s Birthday Candles. Recent projects include The Cave (A Red Orchid); A Slow Air, A Case for the Existence of God (Steep); The Lehman Trilogy (ZACH); The Brightest Thing in the World (About Face); and It’s a Wonderful Life (Capital City). He has worked with Goodman, Steppenwolf, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, The Alliance, and Cincinnati Playhouse, among others. He recently made his Broadway debut as the associate set designer on Purpose and Eureka Day – both of which have been nominated for Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play. MFA: Northwestern. Please experience more of his work at www.sotiriosdesigns.com and on Instagram at @sotirios.livaditis.

is delighted to be working with Northlight Theatre. A Chicago-based video artist and theatrical designer, he has worked locally with Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, and Manual Cinema. Regional institutions include Public Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Detroit Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Internationally He is currently the Director of Design for TAPS at the University of Chicago and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. raseandavontejohnson.com.

Gregory is a Chicago costume designer and milliner. His credits include: Chicago: Garbologist, Fireflies (Northlight Theatre); Once (Writers Theatre); Anna in the Tropics, Routes (Remy Bumppo Theatre) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre) 1919 (Steppenwolf Theatre); Enough to Let The Light In (Teatro Vista); Private Lives (Raven Theatre); Rent, Porchlight Revisits: Passing Strange (Porchlight Music Theatre); On the Greenbelt, Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins (Strawdog Theatre); The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Court Theatre); Dream: A Community Reimaging of A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); The Facts of Life: Satan’s School for Girls, The Drag Seed (Hell in a Handbag Productions). Regional: Raisin (Skylight Music Theatre);  Blood at the Root (Millikin University, School of Theatre and Dance). Education: BA in Theatre Design, University of Illinois at Chicago. www.gregorygrahamdesign.com

is a Chicago-based lighting designer and returns to Northlight Theatre, where previous design credits include How A Boy Falls. Other Chicago credits include: Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, I Hate It Here, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Lottery Day (Goodman); I,Cinna, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare); The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens); Kill Move Paradise (TimeLine); and The Total Bent (Haven Theatre). Regional credits include: Hairspray (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Wild Party, Drag On (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); and Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). He was also the recipient of the 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award which recognizes emerging theatrical designers within the Chicago area. Jason is a proud member of The Association for Lighting Production and Design and is represented by The Gersh Agency. www.jasondlynch.com

is a Jeff-Award winning composer and sound designer, excited to return to Northlight after previously designing Dear Jack, Dear Louise. Off-Broadway: Hollow/Wave (United Solo Festival), Churchill (New World Stages); Regional credits include productions at Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, Northern Stage, TheatreSquared, and The Rev. Chicago credits include productions at Goodman, Chicago Shakes, Steppenwolf, Paramount, Writers, American Blues Theater, A Red Orchid, and many others. In addition to theatre, Eric composes and sound designs for film, streaming media, and immersive experiences. He is a proud member of USA829 and ASCAP. To hear some of his music, please visit www.ericbackus.com.

Nick is a freelance prop and scenic artist based in Chicago. Theatrical prop design credits include: Prayer for the French Republic, The Heart Sellers, Little Women, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Brooklyn Laundry (Northlight Theatre), Charlotte’s Web, Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds, Last Stop on Market Street, The Diary of Anne Frank (Young People’s Theatre of Chicago), Misery (American Blues Theater), The Normal Heart (Redtwist Theater). Nick has also worked as a prop artisan with Steppenwolf Theater, Drury Lane Productions, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Kehoe Designs, Glimmerglass Opera, and The Texas Shakespeare Festival. To view more of Nick’s work, or to make inquiries, you can visit his website nickbartleson.wixsite.com/nickbartleson 

is the Artistic Fellow at Northlight Theatre. She immerses herself in theatrical work in a variety of ways; playwriting, new-play dramaturgy, casting, and literary management. As an alum of The Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in Playwriting she received the Zach Helm Endowed Playwriting Scholarship. She was formerly the Samuel G. Roberson Playwriting Fellow at Congo Square Theatre and the Larry Bundschu Playwright Fellow at Shattered Globe Theatre.

Katrina is thrilled to be working on Twisted Melodies again after doing it in 2017 at Baltimore Center Stage. Her other credits include Hymn, The Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like it (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon,  (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Debate, Baldwin Vs Buckley, Juno, (TimeLine Theatre Company); Falsettos, The Lion in the Winter, Arsenic and Old Lace (Court Theatre). She has a BFA in Stage Management from DePaul University and is a proud AEA member.