Colman Domingo
Actor, Director, Playwright, Photographer

Colman Domingo is an Obie Award winning actor as well as director, writer, and photographer. He has originated unforgettable roles on Broadway in the Tony, Drama Desk, and New York Critics Circle award winning musical Passing Strange. He was in the acting company of Lisa Kron’s Well on Broadway. His solo debut that he created, A Boy and His Soul played to sold out houses at Joe’s Pub and The Thick House in San Francisco and will arrive off-Broadway in the fall. He has performed off-Broadway in Bright Ideas (Manhattan Class Company), Henry V, Passing Strange (NYSF/Public Theater), American Maul (Culture Project/Reverie), Wet (Summer Play Festival) and, And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi (Sundance Lab/Public Theater).

Rachel Hicks received her Bachelor of Arts in English and History from The University of Pennsylvania in 2004.  For two years following, she taught seventh grade English in the Mississippi Delta under the auspices of Teach for America, the national teacher corps dedicated to eliminating educational inequity.  In 2006 Rachel was accepted as a Presidential Scholars Fellow into the prestigious John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  She graduated from the Kennedy School in 2008 with a Master in Public Policy.  Rachel currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi where she founded and serves as the Executive Director of Mississippi First, a new not-for-profit organization promoting better public policy in education, health, and the alleviation of poverty.