MONTAE RUSSELL This veteran television, theatre, and film actor is pleased to make his Florida Studio Theatre debut. He was seen on NBC’s ER for fifteen seasons as Paramedic Dwight Zadro, and won the SAG Award for Best Dramatic Ensemble four times. His film and cable credits include The Player’s Club, HBO’s Laurel Avenue, TNT’s Lily in Winter opposite Natalie Cole and Marla Gibbs; a three year stint on One Life to Live; and has made countless television episodic appearances -- Shameless, Detroit 187, Cold Case, to name a few. His extensive stage credits range from Broadway’s King Hedley II, A Few Good Men, Prelude to a Kiss to Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Fences at the Kennedy Center, the NY Public Theatre’s East Texas Hotlinks, The Cleveland Playhouse’s African American production of The Glass Menagerie. Recent regional performances are Thurgood (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, (Los Angeles Theatre Center). He has performed in 9 of the 10 August Wilson plays, and will soon become the first actor to appear in all 10. He’s a University of Pittsburgh grad, and earned his MFA from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. He’s a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, and is active in the South Los Angeles area with his non-profit organization Successful Youth Los Angeles. For more info: MontaeRussell.com. When praises go up, you know the rest…