Black Pearl Sings! Cast Bios
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JANNIE JONES (Pearl) recently received critical acclaim for her performance in Hair Spray as Motomouth at the NC Theatre, Juneteenth Legacy Theatre’s August Wilison’s Women , which garnered her an Audelco Award and for Black Pearl Sings at San Jose Repertory Company for which she recently won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Actress. She has also received critical acclaim for her role of Sylvia in the National Broadway tour of All Shook Up. Her Broadway and off Broadway credits include The Full Monty, Mama I Want To Sing and Faith’s Journey. Other credits include Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (NC Black Rep), Crowns (Cincinnati Playhouse & Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) Grafton City Blues (Milwaukee Rep) Beehive (Arkansas Rep), Hair (as Dionne), Steppin’ Out (music of Irving Berline), Too Darn Hot (music of Cole Porter), All Night Strut, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues and Motown Cabaret (Florida Studio Theatre) and Ain’t Misbehavin (The Riverside Theatre). Jannie has toured nationally and internationally to more than 23 countries. Her television credits includes daytime soaps operas: All My Children and The Guiding Light, Sitcoms: Martin & Sinbad and commercials and print modeling. She has performed the concert version of Kiss Me Kate with the Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra and in concert at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden with famed Spanish legend Raphael. She can be heard on Teddy Pendergras’ lastest release, “Say It” and on the last hit CD of the late, great Barry White in “Practice What You Preach” |
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JESSICA WORTHAM (Susannah) is thrilled to be making her Virginia Stage Company debut. Regional Theatre credits include Black Pearl Sings! at San Jose Repertory Theater (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award); David Mamet’s Boston Marriage at Capital Repertory Theater; The Ruby Sunrise, Merry Wives of Windsor and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company; Crime and Punishment, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Story, Dracula, and the Humana Festival premieres of The Ruby Sunrise, No. 11 (Blue and White) and Back Story, all for Actors Theatre of Louisville. New York theatre credits include Green Girl and On The Threshold at the Public Theater; Bone Portraits at Soho Rep/Walkerspace. Internationally, she has appeared in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the English Theatre Frankfurt and Crimes of the Heart at Vienna’s English Theatre. Ms. Wortham holds an MFA from Brown University and is a proud graduate of Centre College. |
