Meet The Cast
Michael Anthony Tatmon (Director/Jaxton)
Michael Anthony Tatmon (Director / Jaxton) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to school in Connecticut, served in the US Air Force in law enforcement, and went on to attend the American Conservatory Theatre where he studied professional acting. He worked with 7 Stages Theatre as an Associate Artist where he traveled to China to perform Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs, for which received a Best Actor nomination at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Festival.
Tatmon has faced many challenges in his life. Including a period as a homeless veteran living on the streets in Georgia, Florida, and Arizona. Working his way off the streets and out of homelessness gave Tatmon another dimension and view of life that he incorporates into his acting.
Acting for Mike has been an odyssey of transformation. As a young actor, he thought only of pursuing commercial success. Yet, at the same time, he loved art. As he found more opportunities to express his art, he was drawn to work that would give voice to social and political issues and the under-represented. Thus In Living Colored was born.
Angie Dobson (Logan)
Angie Dobson has been performing in Theater and Film for 30+ years on both coasts. After receiving her BA in Theater and Music, she moved from Boston to LA to pursue her dreams. She has acted on stage and on film in a variety of roles as well as been an asset behind the scenes as director, producer, lighting designer, and costume designer. Before leaving Los Angeles, she was a member for several years with the Archway Theater Company, who produced 6 shows per year. Some of her favorite acting roles with the company were Mistress Quickly in Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Miss Watts/Instructress in The Women, where she and her fellow cast mates won the Best Ensemble Award in a dramatic play for the Broadway Awards in Los Angeles. As far as her technical achievements, Angie is most proud of her work as costume designer for Jesus Christ Superstar, Trojan Women, Henry IV, and her nomination for best costume design in a play for The Women. Another passion of hers is teaching theater to kids and adults, including most recently her Adult Acting Class held in downtown Berthoud and hopes to open her own theater studio someday. Since moving from Los Angeles to Colorado, Angie has performed in over a dozen film projects throughout Denver and the Front Range, starred on stage in Tillie the Teller as Tilly, and directed her first Colorado production of An Audition for a Murder, a murder mystery play in Berthoud. Angie would like to thank her husband Pete and her two kids for their continuous support in her endeavors in the arts. They make it all possible! She is also looking forward to playing Logan in the Thanksgiving Play and hopes everyone enjoys the show!
Meet The Crew & Creative Team
Larissa FastHorse - Playwright
Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, professor of practice (literature) at Arizona State University’s Department of English, award winning writer/choreographer, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences. Larissa’s revised book of the beloved Jerome Robbins Broadway musical, Peter Pan, toured nationally and internationally. She made her Broadway debut in the 2022-2023 season with her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play, making her the first known female, Native playwright to be produced on Broadway. The Thanksgiving Play is one of the most produced plays in America and abroad with over 300 separate productions. In fall of 2025, Larissa will be performing her autobiographical solo show, Fancy Dancer, in collaboration with Seattle Children’s Theatre and Seattle Rep. Additional produced plays include Fake It Until You Make It, For The People, The Democracy Project, What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless and Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, Fancy Dancer, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She develops work with the top theaters in the nation including Center Theatre Group, The Public, Second Stage, Yale Rep, Cornerstone, and Arena Stage.
Prodan Dimov - Artistic Director
Prodan Dimov has been known as director to the Atlanta theatre audiences since his first show Diary of a Madman, by Gogol, at 7 Stages in 1998, which Creative Loafing’s annual review mentioned along with the ten best shows for the year. He came to Atlanta with considerable experience as actor, director, and educator in Bulgaria and Russia, where he continued to be invited multiple times as director in repertory theaters. After 3 years of teaching at Kennesaw State University, in 2005, Prodan Dimov founded Metropolis Theatre where he directed many shows and developed collaborative relationships with emerging playwrights and theatre directors. All his professional life, Prodan Dimov has been closely connected to the field of education. He has BFA, MFA, and PhD degrees in Theatre Arts and has worked at secondary and post-secondary institutions in the US and abroad. Quite a few of his students have become well-known theater, TV, and film actors.
His most acclaimed American productions have been The Chairs and The Bald Soprano, by Ionesco, The Gin Game, by D. L. Coburn, The Proposal, The Bear, and The Harmfulness of Tobacco, by Chekhov. Some of these shows brought back awards from international festivals. According to AJC, the 7 Stages production of The Chairs (2003) was the first show in the history of the state of Georgia to go to China. His latest success abroad was with Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, directed on the stage of the legendary Russian theatre Kolesso. In 2018, he joined the artistic leadership team of the New Marietta’s Theater in the Square, where he directed Arthur Miller’s A View for the Bridge and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park.
Zhanna Gurvich - Production and Design Consultant
Zhanna Gurvich (Production and Design Consultant) is an award-winning designer and painter who has designed scenery, costumes, and lighting for theatre, dance, opera, industrials, and film. She has worked on designs for Broadway, Regional Theatre, International Tours, and Hollywood films.
For In Living Colored Productions she designed and produced Thurgood at the Lincoln Center in 2024 and at Bas Bleu Theatre in 2017. Some notable designs include The Most Dangerous Room in the House for The Susan Marshall Dance Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tears for Violetta, Tierra del Nadie, and Eyes of the Soul for Ballet Hispanico at the Joyce Theatre, Hansel and Gretel at Chautauqua Opera, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Dallas Theatre Center, The Seagull, Man and Superman, and Three Sisters at the Juilliard Theatre, An Iliad at Theatreworks in Colorado Springs, Orpheo et Uridice, Die Fleidermaus, Il Tritico, Hansel und Gretel, Xerxes, The Marriage of Figaro, A Little Night Music, Cendrillon, and The Hobbit at Colorado State University, Trip to Bountiful, Airness, Beyond Therapy, Snow Queen, Dirt, Waiting for the Parade, Last Train to Nibroc, How to Survive Your Family at Christmas, and Mr Perfect at Bas Bleu Theatre, and 9 to 5 The Musical at CU, Boulder.
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Zhanna received an HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Set Design for her work on La Llorona at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. She teaches design and arts management at Colorado State University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
See her work at zhannag.com
Christinia Eala American Horse 'TWM' - Talkback Facilitator
Christinia Eala American Horse 'TWM' is the Founder & Director of Development
Coming from a deeply rooted foundation of social activism and movement building, Christinia Eala has championed for human rights in many capacities over the years. As the founder and director of development of Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, meaning ‘Extended Family of Women of the Earth’ in the Lakota language, Christinia has led important work addressing crisis and systemic change for over 42 years now.
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She is originally from the Rosebud Indian Reservation and moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1955 at a young age. Christinia takes care to walk in a sacred manner, keeping in mind these powerful words, and walking in the knowledge that Great Spirit is with each of us and we are destined to join our relatives under the Sacred Tree just as Tasunke Witko spoke of. While Colorado has remained her home base, Chrstinia’s dedications to a traditional way of life and her extensive work with Indigenous families in crisis have led her all across Turtle Island.
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Christinia currently sits on the Board of directors for the Boulder county United Nations Association chapter, as well as the Advisory Board for Colorado’s Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. She has held longstanding partnerships with several Indigenous-led nonprofits and organizations, such as a deep partnership held with the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and the national 'Toward Right Relations' campaign with FriendsPeaceTeams.
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Learn more about her and her team here - https://www.nocotwm.org/
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