Jaime Cepero

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JAIME CEPERO (They/He) is an Afro-Latino Queer non-binary Actor, Writer, andAward winning Activist. Acting credits include TV: Smash (NBC),Connecting…(NBC), Mess (HereTV/Amazon). FILM: Daddy, Dating My Mother,Jess, I Am Michael, The Game Plan. TOURS: Porgy & Bess 75th AnniversaryNational. OFF-BWAY: Night Of The Living Dead: The Musical! (Ben) TheaterRow. REGIONAL: HAIR (Claude) Dallas Theater Center, Godspell (Judas) ACTConnecticut. Jesus Christ Superstar: GOSPEL! (Simon) Alliance TheaterCompany, You Will Never Enter Our High Holy Land Of Blackness…(MarcoPolo) Long Wharf Theater, Choir Boy (US Pharrus/David) Geffen Playhouse. Asa composer their musical Francois & The Rebels (a punkrock telling of the 1791Haitian Revolution), was showcased in The Musicals Of Tommorow forBroadway Podcast Network, The New Works In Concert Series at Joe’s Pub, a4x15 Workshop at MTFmusicals, and as part of The Choreography Lab atBaryshnikov Arts Center in collaboration with New York Theater Barn. Jaime wasa 2021” Write It Out” Playwright Cohort with National Queer Theater, a 2023DTWG Cohort with The Public Theater, a semi finalist for “best composition” inThe Times Square Alliance City Songwriting Competition, and one of theinaugural winners of 2 GOLD Anthem Awards for social impact and justice workfrom the Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, both of which Jaime holdspassionately as part of their artistry and calling as a human.“Creating safe black& queer spaces for a creative community and disrupting established supremaciststructures by using blackness and queerness in joy is an act ofresistance thathas the potential to heal us all.”

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