Playwright

Monique C. Aldred is a Black actor, singer, and playwright. Perseus & Anemone is her first produced play. Her acting credits include Tartuffe, Much Ado about Nothing, Pygmalion, The Originals, and Avenue Q. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and playing pub trivia. Her capacity for memorizing random facts was finally rewarded when she competed as a contestant on Jeopardy! in 2014.

Director

Sadiqua Iman is originally from Chattanooga, Tom, but has made her home here in Seattle as a theatre and dance artist over the past 8 years. Sadiqua Iman is a stylist/ costume designer and director. She is founder of Earth Pearl Collective, a group of queer black women dedicated to healing their communities through creative collaborations. Through Earth Pearl she has produced Tail Feather, a boilesque ballet, Sovereign queer black woman festival, C.L.I.T. (consciously learning intimacy together) podcast, and an all women of color cast of A Streetcar Named Desire.Most recently Sadiqua directed August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Chattanooga Theatre Center and completed her MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University.

Perseus

Chloe says: “I am new to the Pacific Northwest and looking to release some creative energy and excited to get back into a creative spaces after these last couple of years. I have been fortunate enough to stay busy through the pandemic with virtual creative projects and my real estate work.”

Salacia

Merri Ann has performed in the US and abroad. Favorite roles include Miss Pat 'The Colored Museum' (San Jose, CA), 'The Scarlet Letter, A Musical' (LA, CA), singing in the parody band 'Fun Chicken' (Japan), Audrey 2, 'Little Shop of Horrors' (UK) and Khan Noonien Singh (Seattle, WA). As the Executive Director of The Mahogany Project, she enjoys collaborating with artists. New works are her passion and she’s excited to be in Perseus and Anemone.

Oceanica

Cara is thrilled to be returning to the stage in this short play festival as Oceanica in Monique Aldred's Perseus and Anemone. She was last seen on stage as Sudie Patterson in the world premiere of John C Davenport's Asylum in Georgia. She is very grateful for the opportunity to have fun on stage again.

Anemone

Bobbi Kindred, artist and storyteller, is a Feminist Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. They are the author of “This (Boi)yant Body” Narratives of a queer Black boi and the waters that carry them” and are currently working on a manuscript for a play centering the experiences of Black folk recovering from addiction. They have acted with the African-American Shakespeare Company in SF and have played “Lady in Purple” in Ntozake Shange's ""For Colored Girls”.