Meet TheCooksCreative Team

Playwright

James is a Philadelphia-based playwright and educator. Ijames is the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist, a Pew Fellow for Playwriting, the Terrence McNally New Play Award for White, the Kesselring Honorable Mention Prize for …Miz Martha, a Whiting Award, a Kesselring Prize for Kill Move Paradise and a 2020 Steinberg Prize. He received a BA in drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, and a MFA in acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Ijames is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater.

Director

Saheem is a proud immigrant from Kenya. He is the associate artistic director/resident director of The Public Theater. The Public: Merry Wives, Romeo y Julieta, Richard II, Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway/regional: Nollywood Dreams (MCC; Cherry Lane); Shipwreck (The Public, Woolly Mammoth); Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre); The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); Passage (Soho Rep); Fireflies (Atlantic); Dangerous House, Where Some Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tartuffe (PlayMakers Rep); Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre); Dot (Detroit Public Theatre). He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, Sir John Gielgud SDCF Fellow and a Shubert Fellow.

Set Designer

Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre), Peculiar Patriot (National Black Theatre), The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia), Angles Bone (Hong Kong Music Festival, Beijing Music Festival), Real Enemies (BAM), Epiphany (BAM), Else Jazz at Lincoln Center). Drama Desk Awards: Tiny Dynamite and Pilo Family Circus. Drama Desk nominations: Peculiar Patriot, Kill Move Paradise, Deliverance, In the Heat of the Night, Slaughterhouse 5 and Blindness.

Costume Designer

Dominique is a Bronx native. Design credits include An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake, One Night in Miami, Pipeline (City Theatre); Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera); Mlima’s Tale (Profile Theatre); Stew (Soho Rep); Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rent (Portland Center Stage); The Dark Girls Chronicles (The Shed); 125th &FREEdom (National Black Theatre); Grow Up (film); Grace (Ford’s Theatre); Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons/CTG). MFA, UCSD. dominiquefhill.com

Sound Design

Broadway: Macbeth, Thoughts of a Colored Man. Off-Broadway: On Sugarland (premiere); Fairview (Drama Desk nomination); Rags Parkland (Drama Desk, Lortel nominations); Fires in the Mirror (Audelco nomination); Sanctuary City (premiere); Passage (premiere); Continuity (premiere); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark; Thanksgiving Play; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Underground Railroad Game; The Institute of Memory; Skittles The Broadway Musical. Recipient: Creative Capital Award, Henry Hewes Award and CTG Sherwood Award. Head of sound design at MFA program at Yale University. mikaal.com

Illusions Design

Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (illusions and magic associate). Off-Broadway: co-artistic director of Nightdrive, where he’s directed, co-written and designed The Grown-Ups; Alien Nation; Providence, RI; Apathy Boy; Thank You Sorry. Director and designer for Pussy Sludge (Less than Rent), Juliet & Romeo (The Brick). National tours: Moulin Rouge! (AD, pre-Broadway). Regional: magic for Damn Yankees (Shaw Festival), Dracula (Maltz Jupiter Theater). TV: magic for “The Tonight Show,” The Tony Awards, NBC’s “One Night Only.”

Hair & Wig Design

Broadway: Macbeth (associate hair designer); Chicken & Biscuits (associate wig and makeup designer); Sweat (associate makeup designer). Other design: Little Girl Blue (Goodspeed, New World Stages); …Meet Vera Stark, Matilda (Colorado University); On Sugarland (NYTW); cullud wattah, Mojada (The Public); Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group); Once on This Island (Pioneer Theatre Company); Little Women (Dallas Theater Center); Oklahoma!, Patsy Cline (Weston Playhouse); Memphis, Dream Girls (Cape Fear Regional Theater); Cadillac Crew, Twelfth Night (Yale Rep).

Choreography

A recipient of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and a graduate of The Juilliard School, Moultrie’s select credits include Merry Wives (The Public), Space Dogs (MCC), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre), Invisible Thread (Second Stage), Daddy (The New Group/Vineyard Theatre), Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC), Witness Uganda (A.R.T.), Redwood (Portland Center Stage), Evita and Pride & Prejudice (Kansas City Rep) and El Publico (Teatro Real Madrid).

Fight Director

Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (illusions and magic associate). Off-Broadway: co-artistic director of Nightdrive, where he’s directed, co-written and designed The Grown-Ups; Alien Nation; Providence, RI; Apathy Boy; Thank You Sorry. Director and designer for Pussy Sludge (Less than Rent), Juliet & Romeo (The Brick). National tours: Moulin Rouge! (AD, pre-Broadway). Regional: magic for Damn Yankees (Shaw Festival), Dracula (Maltz Jupiter Theater). TV: magic for “The Tonight Show,” The Tony Awards, NBC’s “One Night Only.”