Korey Jackson (Founder / Producer)
Born in New Jersey, and raised between New Jersey and his home state of Maryland, Korey is an artist who has predominantly been in the acting scene most recently.
He has been seen on such stages as The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, NY City Center, Berkeley Rep, and Two River Theater. On screen, he has been seen in such shows as Daredevil (Netflix), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Homeland (Showtime), The Following (FOX),in the film 5 Flights Up (Focus), and most recently as Sean Jeffries on House of Cards (Netflix).
He is also a writer, producer, and director. Using a generous fellowship from the Leonore Annenberg foundation in 2013, Korey wrote and produced a solo play in response to the trial verdict in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin titled ‘1/13/94’. This was done in conjunction with 'Studio Tisch', a summer festival for alums of NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts Graduate Acting program.
Carra Patterson (Producer)
Carra Patterson is a theater & film artist originally from Atlanta, based in Harlem, New York. She originated the role of 'Rena' in the Tony Award winning Broadway premiere of August Wilson's Jitney at Manhattan Theatre Club.
A graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Carra is perhaps best known for her role as Tomica Woods (Eazy E’s wife) in the hit 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. She made her theatre debut alongside Cynthia Nixon in the 2012 Broadway production of WIT, which followed a famous poetry professor as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer, and since then, has starred in numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway productions including Significant Other, Little Children Dream of God, Luck of the Irish, and Measure for Measure. On television, Carra will recently reprised her series regular role as Shaun on season two of the hit E! series THE ARRANGEMENT.
With a passion for youth empowerment through the arts, Carra is also a committed teaching artist at several community outreach and theatre education programs including Epic Theater Ensemble, New York Film Academy, and the Spelman College Children’s Drama & Dance Institute.
Devin E. Haqq (Producer)
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Devin has appeared Off-Broadway at the Barrow Group, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and most recently in the New York premiere of David Harrower's Knives in Hens at 59E59 Theaters (New York Times Critic’s Pick). He has also appeared in numerous regional theatre productions including As You Like It (The Arden Theatre) and Camp Logan (Boston Center for the Arts). Devin is a graduate of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s MFA program. In addition to working on the stage, he has done commercial work, on-camera and voice over, for Time Warner Cable, McDonalds, HBO, Smith Barney, New Jersey Tourism Board, Comedy Central, Verizon, National Geographic, and Orkin.
As an independent filmmaker, Devin has produced 4 feature films. He made his directorial debut with The Assassin (2007), which played in several film festivals during the 2007-2008 season, including the 2007 Urbanworld Film Festival, 2008 Nashville Film Festival and the 2008 Pan African Film Festival. Devin’s next feature project, Francis of Brooklyn (2012), currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, which he served as producer/assistant director, played in 9 festivals and won 4 awards, including Best Feature at the 2013 DIY Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Devin’s most recent project, Ambition’s Debt, is his sophomore feature film directorial attempt. It won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2017 American Black Film Festival. He is currently developing a horror feature length screenplay along with acclaimed tv writer and playwright Keith Josef Adkins in collaboration with Inkubate Entertainment.