Stacey is delighted to be performing in her first production of 2026. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in TV/Radio Production, Minor in Art and English including theater curriculum. Additionally, she holds a Master of Science Degree in Legal Studies from Crestpoint University. She enjoys the arts and appreciates the impact artistry has upon everyday living.​

This Nashville native and graduate of Belmont University, where she earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts, has over 15 years of experience as a theatre educator and director. Her favorite directing credits include The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Matilda, and her favorite performance roles include Mama Lena in A Raisin in the Sun and Ruth in Fences.

Nashville-based performing artist, choreographer, and theatre practitioner whose work centers around storytelling rooted in the African diaspora. Trained in Afro-fusion, West African, jazz, and majorette movement, she brings a rhythm-driven approach to performance aligned with themes of Black identity, womanhood, and collective memory explored in WEVS and Cultural Millennium. An ensemble dancer with Hayiya Dance Theatre and Sankofa African Drum & Dance Ensemble, Destiney translates communal narratives into precise, intentional movement. Her experience as a choreographer and co-director across multiple productions informs her disciplined, emotionally resonant stage presence. Through movement, voice, and story, she uses performance as a tool for empowerment and remembrance.

This Nashville native has enjoyed learning to be a pianist, dancer, actor, writer, singer, and playwright throughout her life. She received her training from W.O. Smith School of Music, Nashville School of Ballet, Nashville School of the Arts, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Dream 7 Theatre Productions. Christan has performed on live stages all around the country and is internationally known for her original song “For Your Love” that she wrote for Habitat For Humanity. She also enjoys developing websites, designing flyers and posters, as well as writing and editing plays. She has performed in musicals and aspired to be a professional artist since she was little. She now sits at the helm of Dream 7 Theatre Productions as Executive Director since May of 2025. Christan has been sharpening her leadership skills as she continues to do what she loves, thriving in the arts, and giving members of her community the opportunity to develop their talent in theatre arts. She has participated in many Nashville-based plays, one of her favorite roles being Erzulie from the classic musical, Once On This Island, produced by Street Theatre Company in 2009. She is an emerging playwright, most notably known as co-writer of Dream 7’s very first musical, Music City Jubilee. She pays homage to the late Michael L. Walker, founder of Dream 7, for believing in her talent and providing a safe space in which to grow as an artist and as a child of God. “For you are not the gift, but the ability to do so through you……is.” ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH!

This is Imani's first professional play outside of school. It is also her first Dream 7 production. She is in the 8th grade at East End Prep Middle School. She will attend Nashville School of the Arts next year to start her matriculation through high school. She is excited to further hone her craft of dance over the coming years and aspires to reach great heights artistically. 

Derrick is thrilled to be in his seventeenth production with Dream 7. His previous work with Dream 7 includes: The Man Up Chronicles, The Black Knight Society, Cultural Millennium, 2 South, Dreams within the Dream II, The Hood Colored Report, The Berrie Interviews, If I Could Come Back From The Other Side, Militancy, Essays: A Tapestry of Love, #Me Too!, The Pastor, Creole, and Fathers, Sons, Uncles, Nephews.  A Nashville native, he has been in numerous plays and skits at his home church, St. Luke CME Church in Nashville, TN.

Henry is thrilled to be a part of Dream 7's 2026 Black History Month production. He is a poet, author, playwright, visual artist and performance artist. He is known for his powerful voice as a poet and an actor who brings words to life. A Fisk University alum who has won multiple awards, fellowships and honors for his literary and visual art. In 2021, Jones was inducted as the first Poet Laureate of Hendersonville, TN
having made literary and Black history. His stage appearances include: Tom in To Kill a Mockingbird
(Steeple Players Theatre), Ragtime (HPAC), & Music City Jubilee”(Dream 7) just to name a few. Jones has internationally published poems in many journals, magazines and anthologies. He is also a playwright and has written 14 plays and presented four of them. They include: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (in “Nashville Visionaries” Arts Program at Tennessee State University), “I am the Eyes” with Stella Reed Patterson (Monthaven Arts Center); “Our Children are
Dying” (Northwestern University, Fisk University and Urban Art Retreat Theatre); “The Mud Man
Evolution/Born from Tears” (selected by Nashville Scene Critics Top Picks for Plays) and Mud Man
Series (Celebration of Cultures). He's an international fine artist who has exhibited in museums and
galleries with a recent exhibit, “Kindred Links,” at the Parthenon Museum. 

William Anthony is a devoted theatre enthusiast whose love for the stage is rooted in storytelling, emotion, and the quiet magic that happens when the lights dim and the curtain rises. From classic dramas to modern productions, he finds inspiration in the way theatre reflects real life—raw, honest, and beautifully imperfect. Beyond the audience, William works diligently as an assistant, where his reliability, organization, and calm presence make him an invaluable part of any team. Whether coordinating schedules, supporting creative projects, or handling behind-the-scenes details, he approaches his role with the same dedication he brings to the arts.  For William, theatre is more than entertainment—it’s connection. And in both his professional life and personal passions, he thrives on helping stories, and people, shine.

Olugbola has been a part of the Middle TN Arts community all her life from working with and ultimately assisting with planning for the African Street Festival to participating in music, dance and theater events in high school and college. She is fluent in a dozen languages including Swahili and Yoruba. Mrs.Gubasavi has had the dream and idea of WEUSI for over 15 years. She is excited to finally see it come to fruition. 

Vida is humbled and honored to be participating in yet another Dream 7 Theater Production.  Affectionately nicknamed “VEE VEE”, Vida has a multi-faceted professional arts career that spans over 35 years from acting on Broadway in Dark Cowgirls & Prairie Queens with The Carpetbag Theatre, Knoxville, TN in 1997, producing and writing an on-air radio soap, voice over work, singing, film acting, as a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, directing and play-writing. She received her B.A. in Theatre Communications from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and has been  highlighted in Nashville Voyager magazine as one of Nashville’s Hidden Gems and with Briar Haus Writes. Finley was formerly Executive Director of Dream 7 for 5 years, the oldest independently owned and now Nationally recognized African-American theatre company in the Greater Nashville and Middle-Tennessean Region . She enjoys still helping in directing projects and program planning. VEE VEE  is also a playwright and co-wrote  Dream 7 ‘s ground breaking musical, Music City Jubilee, about the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. Vida is a native Nashvillian and loves doing theater because it keeps her young at heart. When she isn’t doing theatre she loves reading, spending time with family, especially her new daughter-in-law. VEE VEE also enjoys spoiling her cat and dog, Gizmo & Nea. ​

​William has been involved in theater since before he was born, finally making his debut as an actor at the age of 9 in Dream 7’s Man Up Chronicles. He started shadowing his dad, Aaron Finley, and mentor, Mic Rex, in doing lighting and sound design at the same age. He has now designed lights and sound for over 100 productions including work as a sound tech for Nashville Shakespeare and for Dream 7’s groundbreaking musical, Music City Jubilee in 2022.