Cast
African/French/US veteran actor Isaach De Bankolé has performed all over the world in film theater and television for the past 38 years. Isaach has won both the César and the Légion d'honneur in France. Some of his recent roles include the Marvel film BLACK PANTHER and the newly released BLACK PANTHER 2, WAKANDA FOREVER reprising his role as The River Tribal Elder, FRENCH EXIT alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, recurring on GODFATHER OF HARLEM alongside his frequent collaborator Forest Whitaker. Isaach can now be seen alongside Alison Janney, Kristen Bell & Ben Platt on Amazon's PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING. Upcoming he will shoot THE BRUTALIST alongside Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in Budapest and will be seen on AMC's upcoming series THE DRIVER. Isaach is known as a Jim Jarmusch and Claire Denis favorite, having appeared as the lead actor in Jarmusch's LIMITS OF CONTROL as well as NIGHT ON EARTH, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, and GHOST DOG as well as Denis' CHOCOLAT and WHITE MATERIAL.
He starred opposite Bryce Dallas Howard in Lars von Trier's MANDERLAY, appeared in Julian Schnabel's Oscar winner DIVING BELL AND The BUTTERFLY, and was credited as 'the first villain to bloody Bond' in CASINO ROYALE.
Isaach appears alongside Brendan Gleeson and Kelly Reilly in John McDonough's CALVARY and MOTHER OF GEORGE both of which premiered at Sundance to stellar reviews.
Vas Eli is an award-winning actor based in New York City. A multidisciplinary artist, he is also a director, writer, producer, educator and painter. Born and raised in Romania, he obtained his BFA at the prestigious National University for Theatre and Film in Bucharest and an MFA at Brooklyn College.
He made his Off-Broadway debut in TAMBURLAINE, directed by Sir Michael Boyd at Theater for a New Audience, a show that was awarded "Most Honorable Mention" in the New York Times "Best Shows of 2014."
Vas has worked extensively with Brooklyn-based Piper Theatre Productions, including lead roles in THE LINCOLN DRESS, THE NOCTURNES, and THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (Edinburgh Fringe Bobby Award).
Vas Eli most recently played architect Bjarke Ingels opposite Anne Hathaway in the acclaimed Apple TV miniseries WE CRASHED. Additional roles include appearances on NBC’s ENDGAME, ABC’s FOR LIFE, the series finale of HBO’s THE DEUCE, and playing opposite Christopher Lambert in NBC’S THE BLACKLIST.
Lawrence has appeared in over three dozen plays in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles, including THE USHER’S BALL, IVANOV, THE NORMAL HEART, and TABLE MANNERS.
His film and TV roles include LAW & ORDER, Hulu’s acclaimed mini-series DOPESICK, and HBO’s THE DEUCE.
Lawrence is currently the Chair of Acting at the CAP 21 conservatory; prior to that, he taught at HB Studio and Columbia College Chicago. As a writer, his short stories and poetry have appeared in The Iowa Review, Escape Into Life, Poetry East, Sycamore Review, Rosebud and other literary journals; his plays MYSTERY IN SPACE , ALCIMERO , and SING FOR YOUR SUPPER have been produced in New York and Chicago.
He is a 1982 MFA graduate of the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul.
Susannah is an NYC-based actor originally from Anchorage, Alaska whose extensive theater experience includes Bryan Cranston’s Tony Award-winning Broadway play, NETWORK.
Additional theater work includes Bruce Norris’s THE LOW ROAD at the Public Theater and a starring role in THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN, produced by Playwrights Realm at the Duke on 42nd Street.
Susannah made her Off-Broadway debut in the original production of THE WOLVES at Lincoln Center, for which she and her castmates earned Obie Awards and Special Drama Desk Awards for Best Ensemble.
Her film experience includes work on THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL on Amazon Prime and THE POLITICAN on Netflix. Susannah holds a BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.