played by Johann Montozzi-Wood

played by Jessica Flemming

played by Anthony Hudson

played by Robb Beharry

aka DJ MF HANDSOME

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Robb was born in New Orleans on November 15th 1980, Robert Anthony Beharry is the oldest male in his family. Both of his parents, Ruth and Mujralie Beharry are from the Caribbean island of Trinidad and have raised all three children with that rich culture at the forefront their upbringing. In his late teens, the love of the stage took over and Robb went to the U of Central Florida as a BFA Musical Theatre major. Living in Orlando was a great experience for him being able to work with such talents as Tony Major and Gil Lewis in August Wilson’s Fences, and Phillip Michael Thomas on his original musical Sasha On Broadway among others. Unfortunately, in April of 2008, Mujralie Beharry, a veteran bus driver, was killed in a horrible car accident caused by an irresponsible 22 year old kid. Robb moved back to Tampa to take care of his little sister and sick mother. Being a DJ has expanded his love for music, finding ways to mix the classic soul sound with modern house beats. While djing throughout the Southeast Handsome has play with Mark Farina, DJ Dan, Sabo, Charles Feelgood, Del, King Britt, Roland Clark, Jask, Ron Trent, XL, and Roy Davis jr to name a few artists. Now living in the heart of Downtown Raleigh Thee Handsome Robb is bringing his unique sound and style to the city. Writing trivia for three locations; Paddy O’ Beers, Brice’s Brewing Company , and Coglin’s The 80’s & 90’s Bar, most will find a creatively entertaining evening of questions. But it is the mix, the blend, the transition is when Robb is in his element. Resident Dj at Coglin’s the 80’s & 90’s Bar and Boxcar, a nationally recognized bar and arcade, Raleigh is getting very Handsome. Now that Handsome sound is coming to Lucarne once a month for a special night of musical expression. Teaming up with DJ Pangean, James Leake, Lucarne will be transformed into an experience you won’t soon forget. You might even lose your shirt.

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Jessica is an actor, singer, stage manager, and theatre educator. She received her BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Michigan-Flint and has over 15 years of professional acting and stage management experience. Over the last year, she performed with Curious Theatre Collective and Aggregate Theatre to present theater for young audiences. Jessica is currently involved with local creatives to foster play and exploration through performance.

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Anthony is a queer artist with Southern roots and global branches. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in European Devised Performance from Columbia College, Chicago in conjunction with arthaus.berlin. In addition to his role of Dunker, Anthony is leading students of Duke University through his original workshop “Embodied Recipes: A Devised Sensorial Awakening.” Anthony makes a damn good biscuit.

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Indigo is a first-year MFA student in the Duke dance department's Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis program. They work within the intersection of movement, music, and contemporary performance practices of experimental and avant-garde art. They relish any opportunity to listen deeply, move wildly, and remain every in flux.

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Phih is a multi-genre violinist based in Austin, TX. He began playing violin at the age of 6 as a Suzuki kid, and went on to major in music at Drake University where he was concertmaster of the university symphony as well as a member of the Des Moines Symphony and Des Moines Metro Opera orchestra. Currently Phil performs regularly throughout the US and Canada with The Invincible Czars, presenting their own new scores to classic silent films. When in Austin he's an active freelancer and teacher in styles ranging from classical and musical theatre to bluegrass, heavy metal and world music. His recent recording credits include Bond Fusion Music, LOLA - Local Opera Local Artists, Flamenco Symphony, and Muppletone.

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Hannah Haverkamp is a career creator - whether it’s costumes or comics - you name it, she’s tried it, and she’s gotten up to her elbows in it.

Educated in history and studio art at Beloit College, Hannah daily uses her liberal arts background to take a holistic view of every creative endeavor. She graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in History, and with a minor focus in Studio Art. She decided to pursue the arts full-time after graduation, but as a result of her education and varied interests, her approach to everything is unfailingly intersectional. She received her Master of Fine Arts in costume design from the University of Illinois in 2023.

Hannah’s career has taken her from the woolly wilds of Wales, to the Driftless area of Wisconsin, and the arid mountains of Santa Fe. She currently teaches costume design and manages the costume shop at Duke University.

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Louis lives in Durham, NC. He holds a B.A. in Music Performance from VCU (Richmond, Va). He writes, records albums, performs on several instruments, and teaches.

Landry’s music celebrates tradition and explores innovation. He works in rock and roll, blues, jazz, classical, and bluegrass; he sings and plays over twenty instruments, including melodica, vocoder and nebulophone. He has toured extensively as a backing musician in North America and the UK.

Landry grew up with music and was especially inspired by his father, New Orleans-born jazz pianist Jimmie Landry. Louis has lived in North Carolina since 2011, following stints in Virginia and Texas. In addition to performing, he also teaches private lessons at High Strung School of Music, and leads music classes for local preschools.

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Michelle is a singer/songwriter living in the “Live Music Capital of the World,” Austin, Texas. She is a founding member of Magnolia Blue Trio (formerly The Mint Juleps) which recently released two singles, Better Without You and Can’t Keep Me Away (From You), available now on all streaming platforms. She is a certified level 2 music together teacher with a BS in Applied Learning and Development from the University of Texas. In any given week, Michelle can be found fostering the love of music in the youngest of learners at Heartsong Music and Bluebonnet Montessori and facilitating hope, healing, and connection in those living with dementia and Alzheimer’s through the Love Notes Chorus.

From an early age, music has been Michelle’s truest companion and most profound form of expression. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, as well as the world around her, Michelle crafts songs that are as genuine as they are compelling. Rooted in folk and harmony, Michelle uses her storytelling to create music for her students, for herself (as therapy!) and for her band. She is excited and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with her bestie and “kindred sparkle” Johann, in creating songs for Grandfathered In!

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Em is a dancer and performing artist, facilitator, and creative producer from Cleveland, Ohio, currently pursuing an MFA in Dance/Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis. Her practice is shaped by contact improvisation, capoeira, circle singing, and devised theatre, and her creative research swirls around ritual, tactility, thresholds, and intergenerational community. em has devised and performed original work at Borderlight Fringe Festival, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, and Cleveland Public Theatre. While dancing with people is one of her most favorite things, dancing with trees comes in as a close second.

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David is a jazz drummer and professor who’s taught writing/speaking in Beirut, Shanghai, and Dubai. He researches today's unusual forms of attention that didn't exist before.

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Johann is an assistant professor of the practice of theater studies at Duke University. He holds a Master in Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Central Florida and Master of Fine Arts in European Devised Performance from Columbia College, Chicago in conjunction with arthaus.berlin International School. His creative and research interests explore critical intersections of race and sexuality through devised performance practice, embodied research, and postmodern aesthetics in theatre, music, and dance.

As an actor, Johann was awarded Memphis’s 2020 Ostrander’s Award for Best Lead in a Musical for his work on the title role in Jelly’s Last Jam at Hattiloo Theatre. Johann is a member of Actor’s Equity.

As an artist-scholar, Johann has recently completed an artist-in-residency and lectureship at the University of Vermont, Berlin where he directed a devised version of Joe Landry’s radio play - It’s a Wonderful Life. He has contributed to a Bloomsbury publication writing a chapter entitled: “Queer Epistemologies in the Making of Queer Makishi: Visibility, Trans-position, and Devised Performance Practice” in Performing Arousal: Precarious Bodies and Frames of Representation (2021). He is currently awaiting the publication of a Cambridge anthology chapter in which he explores the possibility of Black flâneurie and Baldwinian “strangeness” in Drifting Through Wonderland: The City as Performance.

Currently, Johann is conducting research for a devised project called Grandfathered In inspired by the migration of two great grandfathers from different sides of his bi-racial family. In this piece, Johann is wrestling with the relationship of servitude, slavery, and racism as queer lineages of migration and mixedness as a queer epistemology.

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Stacey is eternally chaotic, frequently competent, feral artist delighted to temporarily become whatever is needed for this project (as long as that puts me safely behind a tech table where I belong).

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