Good Godds

The Cast

Oberon K.A. AdjepongOBERON K.A. ADJEPONG (WAYMON AS HUNTER PRIESTESS, FACTORY FOLK)

is making his Yale Rep debut. He has performed Off-Broadway in Like I Say, Cellophane (The Flea Theater); Mother Courage, The Blacks (Classic Stage Company, The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Wabenzi (Ohio Theatre); Hieroglyphic Grafitti (Hip-Hop Theater Festival); The Hamlet Project (La MaMa E.T.C.); Oya and Sango (The National Black Theatre). Regional credits include Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theater Company); The Piano Lesson, Our Town, James and the Giant Peach (Arden Theatre Company); Timon of Athens, Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and A Rhyme Deferred (National Black Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, Nuyorican Café). He has also appeared in film and television projects such as Smash, NYC 22, Margin Call, The Son of No One, The Onion News Network, Hope & Faith, and Law & Order: SVU. He has trained at Lola Louis' Creative and Performing Arts Studio, Oxford University, and Howard University.

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De'Adre AzizaDE‘ADRE AZIZA (PATRICIA)

is proud to be making her Yale Rep debut. Her Broadway credits include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Passing Strange, for which she won OBIE and Theatre World Awards and was nominated for a Tony Award. Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include Passing Strange (Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), and The Hot L Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre). Her credits include three Spike Lee films: Passing Strange, Miracle at St. Anna, and Red Hook Summer; also Law & Order: SVU and Sex and the City. de'Adre has also performed as a jazz singer at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and many other venues. Training: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, The Groundlings Improv School in Los Angeles.

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KYLE BELTRANKYLE BELTRAN (WIRE)

is making his Yale Rep debut. He recently made his Broadway debut as Usnavi in In the Heights after originating the role on the show's first national tour. His other credits include 10 Things to Do Before I Die (Second Stage Theatre), Kingdom (The Old Globe), and Aida (West Virginia Public Theatre). Workshops: Fortress of Solitude (Center Theatre Group), Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club), Clueless (New Group), Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me (The Gold Company), Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Bubble Boy (ASCAP/PCLO). Kyle recurs as Henry on CBS's hit procedural Unforgettable. He received his BFA in drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

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CLIFTON DUNCANCLIFTON DUNCAN (STACEY)

is making his Yale Rep debut. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Lost in the Stars at City Center Encores!, Twelfth Night at The Public Theater, and as a featured artist at Ars Nova's ANT Festival in his hip-hop solo piece, the uniVERSE project. His regional theatre credits include productions at Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, Barrington Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Signature Theatre in Virginia, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Kansas City Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Hangar Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Chautauqua Theatre Company, and Washington Shakespeare Company. He has also been seen on Comedy Central's Onion Sports Network. Clifton received his MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program. Follow him on Twitter: @cliftonduncaniv.

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MARC DAMON JOHNSONMARC DAMON JOHNSON (TRUTH)

is honored to make his Yale Rep debut. Selected credits include The Brother/Sister Plays (OBIE Award, Drama League Award nomination), Measure for Measure (The Public Theater); The Brothers Size (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Mr. Fox: A Rumination (Signature Theatre Company; Drama League Award nomination), as well as productions at John Houseman's The Acting Company, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, and Great Lakes Theater Festival. Television and film credits include Army Wives, Rescue Me, The Sopranos, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, 100 Centre Street, Preaching to the Choir (directed by Charles Randolph-Wright), It Runs in the Family (directed by Fred Schepisi), Grace & Glorie (directed by Arthur A. Seidelman), and Sweet and Lowdown (directed by Woody Allen).

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ANGELA LEWISANGELA LEWIS (SUNNY)

is pleased to make her Yale Rep debut. Angela's Off-Broadway credits include Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre; AUDELCO Award nomination, Best Actress), Sand (Women's Project), Inked Baby by Christina Anderson (Playwrights Horizons), and Milk Like Sugar (Women's Project/Playwrights Horizons and La Jolla Playhouse in California). Angela received her BFA in acting from the University of Michigan and is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company.

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