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Sean San José (Playwright, Director) is a Director, Writer, Performer and Co-Founder of Campo Santo. Since Campo Santo’s founding in 1996, San José’s body of work spans 50 premiere theatre productions for the group including the first plays by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, Jimmy Baca, Jorge Cortinas, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Chinaka Hodge, Denis Johnson, Greg Sarris, Luis Saguar, and Vendela Vida. Campo Santo and San José, with Intersection developed multiple works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, Naomi Iizuka, Octavio Solis, John Steppling, Erin Cressida Wilson, and many others. For Campo Santo, he heads Clika- a new writing and performance Lab; and is developing new works with Luis Alfaro, Richard Montoya, Star Finch, Erin Cressida Wilson, Felonious. For 15 years San José was the Program Director of Performance at Intersection for the Arts and is the new Artistic Director of Youth Speaks’ New Performance Program. Upcoming work includes multiple projects with the Magic Theatre and Loretta Greco and a new piece as part of American Conservatory Theatre's Monstress in 2015 at the new Strand Theatre.

Juan Amador (Bayuncoso) A modern day renaissance man, Juan’s artistic resume includes emcee freestyle champion, DJ, radio host, and actor. Since joining SF’s Campo Santo, Juan has appeared in the world premieres of Block by Block, Tree City Legends, Holy Crime, has appeared with the Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage for Daylighting and in Pittsburg, California’s Teatro L.O.C.O.S . Other credits include sound design for Chinaka Hodge’s critically acclaimed Chasing Mehserle.

Delina Patrice Brooks (Aparecida) earned a 2009 Isadora Duncan “Izzie” Award nomination for “Beauty, The Beast: A Dance-Theater Production. International performance & dance studies: Western Europe, Southern Philippines and Guinea, West Africa. Grants & Scholarships: YBCAway, Anna Deavere Smith’s Global Narratives Workshop, Zellerbach Family Foundation, City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, East Bay Community Foundation. Presented by: Youth Speaks, The Black Choreographers Festival, University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others. Performance: The Living Word Project, ASE Dance Theatre Collective, City Circus, Willows Theater, Deep Waters Dance Theater, African American Shakespeare Company, Cherrie Moraga/Cihuatl Productions, Rhesus Media Group, among others. Education: B.A. Kinesiology, B.A. Ethnic Studies, M.A. Ethnic Studies. Website (coming soon): www.delinadream.com

Myers Clark (Free) was born in Moorehead, Minnesota and grew up in the Bay Area and is thrilled to be returning to the Cutting Ball stage where he is an Associate Artist. Previously at Cutting Ball: Blackman with the Watermelon in The Death of the Last Blackman in the Whole Entire World and Damascus/Demeter in …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. He has worked in Campo Santo productions Angry Black White Boy. Other Bay Area Theater Credits: Holy Crime with ACT and Roosevelt in An Ideal Husband, at the Douglass Morrison Theater. Myers solo performance of Adam Clayton Powell, Keeping the Faith was selected for United Solo Festival in New York. His film credits include Rent, Hemmingway, and Gelhorn. Up next Marcellus in Xtigone for African American Shakespeare theater in February 2015.

Britney Frazier (Magnolia) is an actor, playwright, director and producer. She has performed with: Shotgun Players, Campo Santo, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Marin Theater Company. She has written two full length plays, Obeah and SugarWater which received staged readings at the SF Playhouse, in the Our Voices, Our Stories Staged Reading Festival in 2013 (Which she co-produced) and Brava Theater for Women in May of 2014. Brit most recently performed with the BACCE at Brava in Sweet Maladies.

Donald E. Lacy, Jr. (Rev) Stage credits include: 45 city tour of Miles Davis Experience. Solly 2 Kings, Gem of The Ocean, Peoples Temple, Alleluia The Road, Hotel Angulo by Luis Saguar, Fists of Roses, Hairy Ape, Good Person of Szechwan at Berkeley Repertory Theater and The Shelter at Odyssey Theater directed by Valery Belyakovich of Moscow Art Theater. His one man show Color Struck, now in its 8th year, has played colleges across the country. T.V./Film credits include: About Cherry, NBC’S Trauma, Blood In, Blood Out, L.A. Heat, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and Wolf. Donald is on Saturdays 7AM-12PM on KPOO 89.5 F.M. He was inducted into the Bay Area Blues Society Hall of Fame as a comedian and emcee in April 2013.

Ricky Saenz (Nicoya) is a member of Campo Santo.  He was recently featured in Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s production of Placas by Paul Flores. TV credits include NBC’s Trauma, Southland, CBS’s The Mentalist, and Hulu’s East Los High.