Black Nativity Now - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Kelvyn Bell has been a contributing innovator to The Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), Black Artist Group (BAG), m-Base, The Harlem School of the Arts, The St. Louis Jazz Hall of Fame and The Black Rock Coalition (BRC) of which he is a founding member. Kelvyn has toured internationally and recorded with Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Steve Coleman & Five Elements, James Carter, Maceo Parker and the JB's, Living Colour, Joseph Bowie & Defunkt of which he is a founding member. Mr. Bell was the Resident Composer for The Classical Theatre of Harlem from 2002 – ... read more Tracy Jack is an actor, dancer, director and choreographer currently residing in NYC; the former resident choreographer for the Classical Theatre of Harlem; founding director of Triple Threat Performing Arts Academy, an intensive training program designed for teenagers who have a strong desire to work in the entertainment industry. Choreography Credits: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe, Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Black Nativity (Mary), Duke on 42nd Street; Hip Hop Monologues: Inside The Life and Mind of Jim Jones, J Kyles Korner Entertainment; Sweet Sweetbacks Baad Aaaasssss Song The Musical (principal dancer/Assistant Director), Melvin Van Peebles; Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio); Aint Supposed ... read more Kelvyn Bell has been a contributing innovator to The Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), Black Artist Group (BAG), m-Base, The Harlem School of the Arts, The St. Louis Jazz Hall of Fame and The Black Rock Coalition (BRC) of which he is a founding member. Kelvyn has toured internationally and recorded with Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Steve Coleman & Five Elements, James Carter, Maceo Parker and the JB's, Living Colour, Joseph Bowie & Defunkt of which he is a founding member. Mr. Bell was the Resident Composer for The Classical Theatre of Harlem from 2002 – ... read more As a director, Mr. Glaser's favorite credits include: Moral Values: Or Me No Likey the Homo Touch-touch by Ian McWethy (Village Theater – Fringe NYC); Forgiveness by Bradley Glaser (La Mama); Galveston by Michael Swift (Maringy Theatre – NOLA Fringe); Twinicide 2+2=2 by Lindsay Newitter (West End Theatre), and Hamlet (Fordham University). Mr. Glaser is proud to be a volunteer facilitator with Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, which mounts full theatrical productions with the inmates of New York state penitentiaries serving as cast and crew. Recently, Mr. Glaser directed Starting Over, a script originally ... read more Tracy Jack is an actor, dancer, director and choreographer currently residing in NYC; the former resident choreographer for the Classical Theatre of Harlem; founding director of Triple Threat Performing Arts Academy, an intensive training program designed for teenagers who have a strong desire to work in the entertainment industry. Choreography Credits: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe, Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Black Nativity (Mary), Duke on 42nd Street; Hip Hop Monologues: Inside The Life and Mind of Jim Jones, J Kyles Korner Entertainment; Sweet Sweetbacks Baad Aaaasssss Song The Musical (principal dancer/Assistant Director), Melvin Van Peebles; Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio); Aint Supposed ... read more Christopher McElroen is a New York based Producer and Director. He co-founded the Classical Theatre of Harlem and served as the organizations Executive Director from 1999 – 2009 where he produced forty-one productions yielding 18 AUDELCO Awards, 6 OBIE Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award and CTH being named "1 of 8 theatres in America to Watch" by the Drama League. Christopher has directed over thirty professional productions including four world premieres, The Cherry Orchard with Wendell Pierce and Earle Hyman, an original adaptation of Richard Wright's novel Native Son, Marat/Sade with T. Ryder Smith and The ... read more Alfred Preisser is an award winning director, writer and producer of theatre. He has led over forty professional productions in New York and regionally. From 1999 – 2009 Mr. Preisser was the Founding Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, where he has created a wide and distinguished body of work noted for its physicality, originality, and use of music and dance. His production of Melvin Van Peebles' Aint Supposed To Die a Natural Death garnered seven Audelco Awards including Best Director, and his 2006 production of King Lear with Andrè De Shields opened the 75th Anniversary season at ... read more Dana Watkins's theatre credits include Edwin (Edwin Booth) Theatre at St. Clements, Culture Project's production of Tennessee Williams' In Masks Outrageous and Austere, My First Time at New World Stages, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Allan Knee's The Jazz Age at 59E59 (world premiere), Marat/Sade (Corday), Native Son (Jan Erlone), Macbeth (Banquo) and The Cherry Orchard (Trofimov) at CTH, Charles in The French Lieutenant's Woman at The Fulton (world premiere), Kafka in Stanley Walden's Letter to My Father at the Kaye Playhouse, Hal in Henry IV, Poe in the one-man show An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. TV: Loosies (pilot), Christmas ... read more