Rome Sweet Rome

JQ co-created, co-directed, and starred in the original productions of Othello: The Remix (Westside Theater off-Broadway NY Times Critic’s Pick / The Globe Theatre, London / Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Q Gents (OSF/ISF), Q Brothers Christmas Carol (CST), and Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST). He made his Off Broadway debut when he laid down the beats as DJ/Composer for The Bomb-itty of Errors. J co-wrote and starred in the hip-hop/sketch comedy TV show, Scratch and Burn for MTV. For his brother G’s film, Just Another Story (Showtime), he created the score and original soundtrack. J produced the solo hip-hop album “Foul Mouth Poet” under his moniker J.A.Q., and other albums including “Smashing” (The Grommits), “The Good Thief” (Postell), and “The Feel Good Album Of The Year” (Q Brothers). He is also currently co-host (with oldest brother TQ) of Smallflower TV, a video blog about natural products and old-school shaving based on Merz Apothecary, the other family business. @jeffreyqaiyum

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Q Brothers Christmas Carol, Othello: The Remix (Jeff Award – Best Ensemble), Funk It Up About Nothin’ (Jeff Award- Best Ensemble), Short Shakespeare! The Comedy of Errors. CHICAGO: Welcome to Arroyo’s (World Premiere – American Theater Company); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (BoHo Theatre). REGIONAL: The Merchant of Venice (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival); The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew (Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival); The Crucible, A Christmas Carol, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); I Hate Hamlet (New Court Theatre). OFF- BROADWAY: Othello: The Remix (The New York Times Critics’ Pick – Westside Theatre). INTERNATIONAL: Othello: The Remix (Shakespeare’s Globe, London, Germany, Edinburgh, South Korea, Sydney, Poland, Melbourne, UAE, Auckland); Funk It Up About Nothin’ (Edinburgh, Australia, London) Jackson is a member of The Rap Pack. 

Postell Pringle is a native of Decatur, Georgia. He’s a playwright, music artist/producer, beatmaker and director/choreographer. Regarding Q Brothers shows, Pos has been ‘round from the get-go as a creator, co-writer/composer: Long Way Home (w/ Chicago Children’s Choir), Q Brothers Christmas Carol, ms. estrada, Rome Sweet Rome, and Rami & Jaliya (working title). He teamed with fellow QBC member Jackson Doran (JAX & POS) to create The Illyria Project, a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night for Theater Latte Da’s NEXT Festival. Pos appeared on Broadway in A Free Man of Color by John Guare, directed by George C. Wolfe (Lincoln Center). Off B’way: The Misanthrope, pen/man/ship, Tartuffe (Moliere In The Park), The Urban Retreat (Public Theater); The Seven (NYT Workshop); Romeo + Juliet (Lucille Lortel); Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane), Song for New York (Mabou Mines) directed by the late/great Ruth Maleczech. Other shows: pen/man/ship [virtual] (MIP), Our Daughters, Like Pillars (Huntington), The Matchmaker (Goodman), Broke-ology (KC Rep); The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), A Soldier’s Play (AR Rep). Film & TV: 30 Miles From Nowhere, The Hudson Tribes, Unknown Soldier, Orange Bow, Unforgettable, the Law & Order franchise and a recurring role on Denis Leary’s Rescue Me. As a VO artist Pos has played numerous Gen Z podcasts roles and Rockstar Games’ GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption 2 & GTA: The Lost and Damned. Pos is the co-lyricist for the musical STEP KIDS, alongside Tyrone L. Robinson. As a music artist and producer he’s dropped myriad LP’s and mixtapes, proudly including his 2020 release “Hot Sauce From Hell “(posluv.com, Spotify). Pos is a member of The Rap Pack. He earned a BA from Bates College and studied acting in London (RADA). He resides with his gorgeous family in ‘do or die’ Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY @posLuv

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare in the Parks The Hero Within. CHICAGO: Little Women, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (Northlight Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane); Romeo and Juliet, Hope: Part 2 of a Mexican Trilogy (Teatro Vista); Seussical (Marriott); Suddenly, Last Summer (Raven Theatre); Hot Pink (New American Folk Theatre); The Full Monty (Theo Ubique); Little Women (First Folio Theatre). REGIONAL: Door Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, TheatreSquared. FILM: Exes of Christmas Past. TELEVISION: Chicago PD (NBC). 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Corduroy, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks productions of DREAM and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CHICAGO: Antigone (Court Theatre); Clyde’s, The Music Man (Goodman Theatre); Holiday Inn (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination– Performer in a Supporting Role), A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre); BLKS (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Fun Home (Victory Gardens Theater); An Octoroon (Definition Theatre); Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. REGIONAL: How to Catch Creation (Geva Theatre). TELEVISION: The Chi, Shameless (Showtime); Chicago PD (NBC); Empire (FOX); Sense8, Easy (Netflix).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Q Brothers Christmas Carol. CHICAGO: America V2.1, Are you Ready to Smash White Things, No child (Definition Theatre); La Havana Madrid (Teatro Vista/Collaboraction Theatre Company); Fun Harmless War Machine (The New Coordinates); PYG: Or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle, Blood at the Root (Jackalope Theatre Company); Columbinus (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Toilet, How We Got On (Haven Chicago); Luck of the Irish, The Q Brother’s Rome Sweet Rome (UIC). REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Steppenwolf, St. Louis Shakespeare, Flint Rep, Congo Square, Victory Gardens and Definition Theatre Company. FILM: 6×9, WHOLE (Monty Cole). TELEVISION: 61st Street (AMC/BBC); Chicago Med (NBC). WEB SERIES/MUSIC VIDEO: Brujos (OTV); Young Lost Love, Sinner (StripMall Prods.). CHOREOGRAPHY: Death of Chuck Brown at American Players Theater, Maybe by Daniel Kryi, Olney Theatre Center, Definition and Flint Rep. Musoni is an ensemble member of Definition Theatre and Congo Square Theatre Company, and represented by Paonessa Talent Agency.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Co-Creative Facilitator of Shakespeare in the Parks DREAM!, 3-Time Host of Shakes SLAM!, Q Brother’s Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, Posner and Teller Macbeth, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night‘s Dream. CHICAGO: Antigone (Court Theatre); Kill, Move, Paradise, Too Heavy for Your Pocket (Timeline Theatre); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Writers’ Theatre). REGIONAL: Earthquakes in London (Guthrie Theatre); Pericles, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Comedy of Errors, Eurydice, Cyrano de Bergerac (American Players Theatre); My Children! My Africa!, A Raisin in the Sun (Park Square Theatre); Slab (Square Product Theatre). TELEVISION: Chicago PD (NBC); Empire (Fox). EDUCATION: MA in design for social impact, Paris College of Art; BFA in theatre, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre BFA Actor Training Program. Pierre is a recent addition to the Q Brothers’ Collective. He is also a Program Director of Berridge Programs located in Brix, Normandie, France. 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet CHICAGO: Clyde’s, How to Catch Creation, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre); Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre) Eclipsed (Pegasus Theatre Company); An Octoroon, An Educated Guess (Definition Theatre Company). REGIONAL: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (TheatreSquared); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Q Brothers Christmas Carol (St. Louis Shakespeare) FILM: Jade, Nya Does Nothing, PLENUM. TELEVISION: The Chi (Showtime), Donut Boyz (Pilot) FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Babes with Blades Theatre Co., Definition Theatre, Raven Theatre, Remy Bumppo, The Story Theatre, The Impostors Theatre. INTIMACY DIRECTION: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Pegasus Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre DIALECT COACHING: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The House Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA in Drama, Spelman College; MFA in Acting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AWARDS: Jeff Award- Best Fight Choreography (Ethiopianamerica), Best Ensemble (Marie Antoinette). Maya Vinice Prentiss is an SAFD Certified Actor-Combatant, Fight Choreographer, and Dialect Coach.  

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Uncle Vanya (The New Theatre Project) The Band’s Visit (Writers Theatre) Layalina (Goodman Theatre) BROADWAY TOURING: The Kite Runner (1st National) INTERNATIONAL: Julie: After Strindberg (Untold Wants Theatre Company) The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (Outside The March) The Winter of 88’ (Nowadays Theatre) Evil Dead: The Musical, We Will Rock You (Starvox Entertainment) COMEDY: Touring Company, Education Company, House Company, The Bob Curry Fellowship (The Second City Toronto) The NBC Breakout Festival (The Second City Chicago) EDUCATION: The School at Steppenwolf 2019 

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Rome Sweet Rome is Bri’s 9th show at CST. Favorites include Road Show, Pericles and Emma. CHICAGO: Always, Patsy Cline (Drury Lane); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Writers Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Wonderful Town (Goodman Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Paramount Theatre); Oslo (TimeLine Theatre). BROADWAY: Ellie Greenwich in A Beautiful Noise: the Neil Diamond Musical (Original Broadway Cast). EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, University of Illinois and a degree in Sign Language Interpreting.