GOLDEN WINGS Cast

made her Broadway debut in Barnum. She has also appeared on Broadway in Cats, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Once on This Island, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Chicago and FELA! (Tony nomination). For her role in Cy Coleman’s The Life, she won the Drama Desk , Outer Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award (Best Featured Actress In A Musical). She was recently seen in the world premiere of Gotta Dance at the Paper Mill Playhouse, has performed at the Public Theater production of Romance In Hard Times (OBIE Award), Dinah Was at the Gramercy Theatre, Second Stage Premiere of Regina Taylor’s Crowns (AUDELCO Award), Texas in Paris at the York Theatre Company, (Lucille Lortel Award Nomination ) and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at The Mark Taper Forum (N.A.A.C.P. Theatre Award - Best Actress in a Musical)! White’s concert performances include her critically acclaimed cabaret show at 54 Below called The Lillias White Effect (directed by Will Nunziata), for which she earned a Bistro Award. For The Actors Fund of America, she performed in Funny Girl, Hair and the 25th anniversary Concert Dreamgirls and South Pacific which was broadcast by PBS Great Performances. She also appeared in concert at the Kennedy Center, JAZZ@Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center , and many times at Carnegie Hall. She has toured internationally with her one-woman show, From Brooklyn to Broadway. White’s television appearances include a regular role on “Sesame Street” (for which she won an Emmy Award), “Gotham,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order,” and the recurring role of Fat Annie on the Netflix show The Get Down. Screen credits: Lead Muse in Disney’s Hercules, Anastasia. How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Game 6, Pieces of April, Then She Found Me, and Nasty Baby (with Kristen Wiig).

has been in arts and entertainment for almost thirty years. His first professional job for television was as Tootie’s suitor on The Facts of Life. Most recently, he guest starred on the Ryan Murphy hit 911. In film, he has had the pleasure of working with decorated directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Cameron Crowe and Todd Holland. Scotch has been producing for several years with project that include pilots, features, live productions and the indie features, including award winning short feature “WIG”, which he also penned. As a singer he’s toured nationally with Jesus Christ Superstar and Civil War. He preforms in the local L.A. cabaret scene and has a recorded his entire career. The ballad “Lost Til I Found You”, which he wrote, plays over the closing credits of the feature film Firehouse Dog. He has performed with Larry Gatlin, BeBe Winans, Carl Anderson, Dennis DeYoung, Freda Payne and Syreeta Wright and composers Ray Davies, Charles Fox, Barry Gordy and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. Scotch is most proud of his web series “FAUX SHOW”, starring Tiffany Haddish and Kim Coles. Streaming on YouTube or at www.FauxShowTv.com. Faux Show won “Best Webisode” in its first festival and has since won several other honors including “Best Director” for Scotch. His most recently finished his supernatural feature film script “Flat Shader” which is currently hitting the market.

is an American theater, film and television actor, director and playwright. Broadway: August Wilson's Jitney, Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Manhattan Theater Club, Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), Stick Fly, Directed by Kenny Leon; August Wilson's Seven Guitars, Directed by Lloyd Richards.

is honored to be a part of this reading of Golden Wings. He was last seen on stage in Chicago for A Red Orchid Production of Killing Game. He was named 2012’s ‘Best Stand Up Comic in Chicago’ by the Chicago Reader and has been lucky enough to perform at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, The TBS Just for Laughs festival and a few other notable places. TV/Film credits include HBO GO's Single Long, FOX’s Empire and will be seen in the upcoming independent film Monuments. Sherman and his wife, Brittany Burch, just welcomed a daughter into their family and are looking forward to getting some sleep in the distant future. He is represented by Paonessa Talent.

is a recent graduate from The University of the Arts with a BFA in Musical Theater. Recent credits include The Maids, The Elementary Spacetime Show (Fringe Arts and Playwrights Downtown), Folk Wandering (Polyphone Festival), and Hear Me War (Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival). She is ecstatic for all of the amazing opportunities theater will have to offer in the near future.

(Equity/Sag-Aftra) a native of Washington D.C. is based in NYC. Broadway Credits include: Oh Kay!, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Lion King, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Kiss Me Kate, Wonderful Town, Nice Work If You Can Get It and The Book Of Mormon. He has performed on stages Nationally and Internationally in Regionals, The Bermuda Theater Festival to The Royal Court Theater in London. Television audiences may remember his appearances on: Law & Order, Criminal Intent, Gossip Girls, NY 22, NBC’s RISE. Film: Magic Sticks, Dark Streets, Brother To Brother and Steve Mc Queen’s SHAME. Stanley has also recently written his own multi-media play entitled “Preaching To The Choir/ An Inconvenient Truth” A Blacklivesmatter Odyssey. www.stanleywaynemathis.com

worked as an actor in New York and Los Angeles more years ago than he would care to admit, appearing on All My Children and One Life to Live as well as in numerous stage productions, including his own play The Death of William Shakespeare. He then made a dramatic change and built a successful career as a federal prosecutor and later an entertainment litigator, which is how he finally made the cover of Variety. But he has never lost the theater bug, and continues to perform whenever possible while maintaining his legal practice. Most recent roles include The Fantasticks (Henry) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom). He is also an amateur magician and a proud member of the Academy of Magical Arts at Hollywood’s Magic Castle. Dan is extremely grateful to be involved with such an illustrious company in this reading of Golden Wings.

2x music award winner Crystal Starr is the leading artist of the new generation that emerged in the wake of the influence of Madonna, Beyonce and Prince. Dubbed as the Latina Amy Winehouse, and sometimes compared to a girl version of Bruno Mars and the Hooligans, Crystal Starr is a major act in the making. Starr’s impressive resume and performance skills, having performed regularly to crowds of over 80,000 people as an official support act for artists such as Paul Stanley (Kiss), Ariana Grande, Drake, Jlo, and Lady Gaga has also starred on Broadway playing a singer from the hit girl group “The Shirelles” in the Hit Broadway show called “Baby Its You.” Her dynamic show, which features her background singers “The Bowties”, is a high energy choreographed concert that keeps people wanting more. Snoop Dogg recently shouted out “Crystal Starr and the Bowties” as being a Star. Crystal Starr fly’s the flag for female activism and Children in Foster care, aiming to always encourage women and children to free themselves from the shackles of societal pressures and to be themselves. Crystals newest single ‘Goodie Two Shoes’, from her upcoming album StarrShip, tells the story of the pressures a girl goes through while trying the do the “right thing” in a world filled with pressures to do just the opposite. Deemed a “Goodie Two shoes” herself, Crystal was always teased for not falling into the trap of the many peer pressures many girls feel in todays fast moving life. Never wanting to become a star based on the account of a “Sex sells” idealism, she chose to empower herself and others by believing in herself, even if it meant taking the longer route. Starr chose to teach other girls that, by remaining in your power, “You Are Enough” through her Girl Empowerment Concert series, in which she produces through her non profit Little Voices, “She Sessions” which empowers thousands of girls in foster Care. The Music Video is a fun throwback concept Crystal Starr came up with which pay’s tribute to powerful woman artist’s such as Janet Jackson, TLC, and SALT N PEPA whom she looked up to growing up in the early 90s. ", Crystal Starr’s voice celebrates all women, and her records stand as a collection of true stories inspired by the women in her life who have overcome abuse, only to persevere and grow stronger. Crystal Starr’s music exists to uplift and encourage women to be a community who support one another.

is an actor/director with experience in theatre, voice over, film and television. Theatre credits include Dr. Bonnie Lee Abernathy in 2 Wolves and A Lamb, Common Enemy (World Premieres) and Jacob Marley’s Ghost in A Christmas Carol at Triad Stage; Valeria in Coriolanus: The African Warrior (Harlem Shakespeare Festival); Klytemnestra in Elektra (The Actors Studio); Playing With Fire (Negro Ensemble/August Strindberg Rep) and Music Deep Rivers My Soul (Jazz at Lincoln Center). Recent directing credits include Greenwood (Coolidge Harris II), Having Our Say (Emily Mann); They That Sit in Darkness (Mary P Burrell); Illinois Boy Blues (Khalil Muhammad); Dembe (Amy daLuz). Television: Law and Order: SVU (Recurring); Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Law and Order; Daredevil; New York News; The Sopranos; Third Watch; Everyday People.