Stanley Wayne Mathis (Director/Choreographer/Designer)
is a Broadway
veteran and Children's Theater Performer origionally from Washington D.C. He last seen on Broadway and the
National Tour as Mafala Hatimbi in The Book Of Mormon. Other Broadway credits include: Nice
Work If You Can Get It, with Mathew Brodrick and Kelly O'Hara, Wonderful Town starring Donna
Murphy, later with Brooke Shields with Jennifer Westfeldt. Kiss Me Kate! with Brian Stokes
Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown as Schroeder with Kristen
Chenoweth, The original cast of The Lion King as Banzai the hyena, Jelly's Last Jam directed
by George C. Wolfe starring Gregory Hines and his Broadway debut David Merrick's Oh Kay
which he won the 1990 Fred Astaire Award. Off Broadway credits include City Center's St.
Louis Woman opposite Vanessa Williams directed by Jack O'Brien. Real Black Men Don't Sit
Cross legged On The Floor at The New Federal Theatre which won him the 2006 Audelco
Award. Regionals include: August Wilson's Radio Golf at Kansas City Rep and Gem Of The
Ocean at Seattle Rep directed by Phylicia Rashad. Fences At Bristol Riverside Theater
PA,Death Of A Salesman at Yale Rep starring Charles Dutton, You Can't Take It With You at
Pioneer Theater, Utah. Blues For An Alabama Sky at Cleveland Playhouse, Of Mice And Men
at Dallas Theater Company, Master Harold And The Boys at Triad Stage, Greensboro NC.
Animal Crackers and Faust at The Goodman Theater, Chicago, Abyssinia at the Arena Stage
D.C. Day Of Absence at Baltimore Center Stage, Cinderella at Papermill Playhouse starring
Suzzane Douglas and The Ogunquit Playhouse starring, Leslie Uggams, Anything Goes at
Montclair Theater Festival starring Melba Moore and Emily Mann's Greensboro at Princeton.
International: Spunk directed by George C, Wolfe at The Royal Court Theater in London and
Williams And Walker at The Bermuda Theater Festival. Television: Law & Order, Criminal Intent,
Gossip Girls, 20/20, SNL, Late Night With Conan O'Brien. You also can look for him in NBC's
"Rise" this spring as Principal Evan Ward. Film: Magic Sticks, Dark Streets, Brother To Brother,
Santa Baby (Animation) starring Vanessa Williams, Gregory Hines, Patti La Belle, Eartha Kitt,
and Steve Mc Queen's Shame. Stanley's Children's Theater includes: The Library Theater
Books Alive Traveling Show in D.C. CAT( Creative Arts Team), Nucleus with founders Attalah
Shabazz and Yolanda King, Periwinkle Theater Company, New Jersey Playwrights, Sacred
Hearts Creative Arts Summer Program, Troika Children's Theater in Bermuda and Rosie
O'Donald's Broadway Kids. He has directed Little Shop Of Horrors, Westside Story, You're A
Good Man Charlie Brown, True Colors (an original musical), How To Eat Like A Child, Once On
This Island and recently The Lion King Jr. at Brazo Valley Troupe in Brazo Valley Texas. Stanley
has his BFA from Washington International College, D.C. Studied at Career For The Arts ( Now
Duke Ellington School Of The Arts) Lynn Welters Dance Studios, Melvin Deal African Drummers
and Dancers, HB Studios,NYC and was a member of Ebony Impromptu Theater Company and
Charles Moore African Dancers and Drummers. He hopes everyone enjoys the journey of Owen
& Mzee.