​LIBERATION THEATRE COMPANY:

Spencer Scott Barros  is a producer/actor/teaching artist working in New York City for the past 25 years.  He is currently one of the founders and the Associate Artistic Director of Liberation Theatre Company.  LTC is a theatre company committed to nurturing and producing work from playwrights of color.  He  was the Associate Artistic Director of Blue Diamond Productions from 1987-1994.   BDP produced several main stage productions as well as Black History Month festivals.  He was also an Associate Producer for Evening Shades with his current partner Sandra Daley.   Evening Shades produced several one act play festivals with an emphasis on the African-American experience from 1993-1996.  He has worked as a teaching artist for such prestigious organizations as Only Make Believe, Creative Arts Team and Hospital Audiences, Inc.  He currently works as a facilitator for CSW Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in work place diversity and inclusion.  As an actor he has a lengthy resume with credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regionally. He also can be seen on television as a guest performer in several series, as well as several national commercials and print ads.

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Sandra A. Daley-Sharif Founder/Producing Artistic Director of LTC.  Sandra facilitates Black Playwrights’ Group. She is founder and member of HARLEM9, an alliance of theatre producers, producing events in Harlem. They are producers of the acclaimed “48 Hours in Harlem”. Sandra is also a director. She has worked with Drama Dept. and has directed the works of emerging playwrights. Sandra is a member of NewShoe, a playwright and director collaborative. She was a member of New Perspectives’ Theater Women’s Work Short Play Lab 2012 where her one-act, Jake was produced; and a current member of NPTs full-length lab, where she is working on Straddling the Edge. Sandra is a member of Abingdon Theatre Company’s Playwriting Group. She is also an actress, having worked On and Off Broadway, in Film, and Television.

Bernard J. Tarver​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ is a producer, playwright and actor who has worked in the entertainment industry in a variety of capacities for more than 25 years. In 2012, he was Assistant Producer of the U.S. Premiere of Children of Killers, by 2010 Olivier Award winning playwright Katori Hall, presented at the Castillo Theatre in New York. That same year, he co-produced (along with Liberation Theatre Company, et al) Blacken the Bubble by Eric Lockley, at the HSA Theatre in Harlem. He has produced several readings in the Castillo Theatre’s annual Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Series, including Cottonwood in the Flood (directed by Woodie King, Jr.), dreams heavier than air;  and Women and Guns . He just recently stage managed Demonstration 2013, also at Castillo. In 2010, he was a financial backer of A Raisin in the Salad, by Kevin R. Free, presented at that year’s FringeNYC festival. Bernard is also currently writing his first stage play Brother From the Other Side of Town, as a member of the Liberation Theatre Company Black Playwrights Group. As an actor, he has past stage, screen, and commercial credits, in a career that is mostly in hiatus now. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. He serves on the Advisory Board of A Mile in My Shoes, Inc., an entertainment production company, and is a member of Theatre Communications Group, Theatre Resources Unlimited and the Harlem Arts Alliance. Outside of the industry, Bernard has worked extensively in nonprofit management and training, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Bailey House, Inc., a supportive housing provider for people living with HIV/AIDS. He has also been a public relations spokesman in New York State government and a journalist. A graduate of Syracuse University and a native of Poughkeepsie, NY, he lives in Harlem.​