American Conservatory Theater has found its full cast for the upcoming world premiere run of RyanNicole Austin, Beau Lewis, and Adesha Adefela's hop-hop musical Co-Founders, set to play the San Francisco company's Strand Theater May 29-July 6.
Aneesa Folds (Freestyle Love Supreme) and Roe Hartrampf (Diana The Musical) will lead the cast as Esata and Conway, respectively, with Adefela as Deb, Austin as Kamaiyah, Jordan Covington as Dhameer, Keith Pinto as Victor, Danal铆s Arocho Resto as Chadwick, and Tommy Soulati Shepherd as Dadvatar. Understudies Austin Dean Ashford, Rolanda D. Bell, B. DeVeaux, and Ryan Torres will round out the company. Casting is by Peter Dunn Casting's LeeAnn Down and Katie Craddock.
The new work follows a young Oakland coder who hacks her way into a competitive startup accelerator in the Bay Area, forming an unlikely partnership with a prep-school kid to save her house in the face of rapidly approaching gentrification.
Jamil Jude will direct the world premiere, with music supervision, orchestrations, arrangements, and music by Victoria Theodore, beats production by Will Randolph V, choreography by Juel D. Lane, scenic design by Arnel Sancianco, costume design by Jasmine Milan Williams, lighting design by Xavier Pierce, sound design by Connor Wang, video content design by David Richardson, and music direction by Tish Diaz. Rebecca J. Ennals will serve as stage manager, with Megan McClintock and Emma Walz as assistant stage managers.
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