Founding Members

Jean-Pierre Barthelemy discovered a love for theatre while studying mathematics at City College. With a background in music and a love of literature, he set out to become a triple-threat actor. Along the way, his technical acumen and savvy business sense lead him to producing. Starting with the Harlem Repertory Theatre as their Marketing Director he learned from Keith Lee Grant, Artistic Director and founder of the Harlem Repertory Theatre Company. Shortly after a successful run or Dreamgirls and Dutchman, he assembled a team consisting of some of his favorite actors. That simple meeting developed into what is now The Seven Collective.

Photo by Christine Jean ChambersDavid King is an actor, director, educator and freelance editor. Off-Broadway: The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Come Back to Me (Cherry Lane). FringeNYC: Savage International and Choke City. Additional credits include Caligula Maximus (La MaMa), Ghosts and Civil Sex (Hudson Guild), Man on the Street and Testiculations (New Media Rep), Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Antony & Cleopatra (Antony), Pericles (Antiochus), A Hatful of Rain and Polaroid Stories (Orpheus). He directed TSC’s premiere workshop production of Closer by Patrick Marber and the 7DoP Theatre Festival’s Gluttony by Ed Cardona Jr. David is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and TSC co-founder. DK  tumblr

Alexander C. Mulzac is a native New Yorker but was reared in the West Indian islands of Antigua, Trinidad as well as London, UK.  He has always had a love for the arts and performed in local theatre as a child.  He rediscovered his passion during his collegiate years and changed from a Science major to Theatre where he completed his B.A.  Notable New York theatrical roles include Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed To Die a Natural Death and Trojan Women (CTH), Losing the Light (Billie Holiday Theater) and Big Love (Columbia-Riverside Church Theater). Alex’s last theatrical role in The Eternal Crunch received critical acclaim after performing in The Fire This Time Festival in 2011, appearing at the Horse Trade Theatre Group.  His film credits have earned him a Texas Black Film Festival nomination for Best Actor for the short film “GRACE” directed by Steven Mondesir.

Nabil Vinas is a first generation Dominican American whose parents came to Washington Heights from Moca in the 1970s. He started acting when already late into his college years and changed majors over from Mathematics to complete a B.A. in Theatre. Some of his favorite stage roles to date are LARRY in Closer (The Seven Collective) and MIGUEL MONTES in Asymmetry (Puffy Shirt Productions). He has appeared in a number of independent films including the award winning Things I Don’t Understand by David Spaltro. You can see him next in the play Goliath from Poetic Theater Productions.
Learn more about Nabil at his personal website NabilVinas.com

Roderick A. Warner is an Actor, Director, Writer, Photographer and Educator born and raised in Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.  Roderick has a B.A. in Theatre and served as Artistic Director of the St. Jude Community Center in Brooklyn, NY for over ten years where he wrote and directed plays for the program’s aspiring young actors. On stage, his involvement with the Harlem Repertory Theater led to leading roles in the musicals Cabaret (Clifford Bradshaw) and The Wiz (Tin Man). He was also seen in King Lear at Aaron Davis Hall, Shango Lord of Thunder at the National Black Theater, Moon On A Rainbow Shawl at New Federal and most recently, ResurGents at the Midtown Int’l Theater Festival. A true renaissance artist, Roderick took time off to travel the world and gained a profound global perspective that serves to inform and enhance his craft.

Special Thanks

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