about the cast
Cedric Lamar
Cedric Lamar is an actor, singer-songwriter, composer, educator, and filmmaker.
He was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s (OSF) acting company for the past 6 seasons and performed in numerous shows such as Hamlet, Pericles, The Wiz, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Oklahoma!, and Mother Road (world premiere) to name just a few.
Also at OSF, he was a co-creator and performed in a devised piece of interactive theatre designed for direct community engagement titled, Take Them Into the Dirt, toured as a teaching artist with their School Visit Program, and composed the music for OSF’s 2019 production of Alice in Wonderland.
After earning his BFA in Acting from North Carolina School of the Arts, Cedric went on to perform shows at other regional theaters, including two national tours with NYC’s The Acting Company; Richard III, The Three Musketeers, and Macbeth.
Cedric released his first solo album in 2015, “Kingdoms and Tall Grass” (Spotify, iTunes, etc.), and has played the South by Southwest Music Festival with his band, The Life and Times Of. He won the Waltz-Astoria Singer Songwriter competition in 2012, and was a finalist in the Williamsburg Live Singer-Songwriter competition in 2008.
He also recently directed and starred in two short films, The Darker Brother and The Loving Voices, addressing his experience of being a black male in this country during unprecedented times.
Cedric is one-half of the indie pop duo Family Friend whose music videos have been viewed over 50,000 times through social media over the last year, and the founder of custom songwriting service If My Heart Could Sing.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Cedric’s true passion is for storytelling, and ultimately finding ways to unlock empathy in one another.
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