Three-time Actor Boy Award winner Karl O’Brian Williams, Miranda Melhado of ‘Amityville Vampire‘ fame and Emilio Evans from the popular drama series ‘Makeup X Breakup‘ are the latest act announced for the premiere presentation of Alwin Bully’s Caribbean drama ‘McBee‘. 

They join the previously announced Luke Forbes (from Amazon Prime’s ‘Harlem‘) and Denise Hunt (‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back‘) for the one-night-only production, which takes place on June 23 at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC) in Jamaica, Queens.

The performance will be preceded by the complimentary Golden Krust Caribbean cuisine reception from 5:30 pm.

The event is in tribute to late playwright, Dominican-born Alwin Bully, and forms part of the celebration of New York’s annual Caribbean American Heritage Month festivities, held across the city each June. 

Broadway World Award winner David Heron serves as producer and director of the project.

Set on an unnamed Caribbean island in the recent past, ‘McBee‘ follows the story of husband and wife politicians Allan and Alice McBee (Forbes and Hunt). On his way home on general election night following his party’s victory at the polls, McBee encounters three mysterious Rastafarians who inform him that he is destined to become prime minister of the nation.

When he shares the news with his ambitious spouse, she immediately begins to forge the bloody plan to make the prediction a reality. But the couple soon discover that their choices possibly come at a price far too high for them and the country to pay. 

Williams will play the role of Prime Minister Vere Duncan Sr., the newly re-elected national leader who stands in the way of the McBees’dream, while Melhado is cast as young politician Antoinette Cross, a loyal party ally of the couple. Evans portrays politician Bernard Bannis,

Allan McBee’s close colleague and, significantly, the only other witness to the Rastafarian prophecy on the fateful night that McBee receives it. 

Jamaican-born Karl O’ Brian Williams is an actor, playwright, director and educator deeply committed to arts education and theatre for social justice and transformation. A three-time winner of Jamaica’s coveted Actor Boy Award, Williams is one of a handful of multi-hyphenates to be honoured in both the acting and writing categories at the awards. 

On stage, he has also appeared in New York productions such as ‘The Tempest‘, ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof‘ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra‘, while his screen credits include the films ‘Betta Mus’ Come‘ and ‘One Love‘.

Miranda Melhado is a Jamaican actor and model who can currently be seen in the Amazon Prime horror feature Amityville Vampire.

She has earned excellent reviews for her performance as a fiery Latina prostitute in the pilot episode of ‘From Yard- The Series‘, which has recently been named an official selection for several major international film festivals. 

She has also appeared on stage at the Apollo Theatre and at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center Stage in staged reading productions of Heron’s courtroom drama ‘Against His Will‘.

Her commercial resume includes campaigns for McDonald’s and Goli Gummy Bears. Emilio Evans will shortly be seen in his third season of the popular Allblk network drama ‘Makeup X Breakup‘ as fan-favourite Bryce Grove.

Born in the US to Jamaican parents, Evans has also appeared on television series including ‘Law and Order: Organized Crime‘ and ‘Power Book II-Ghost‘. His stage credits include the productions Breakz at the Nimbus Arts Center in New Jersey and the role of Theodore, one of the  Tuskegee Airmen in Layon Gray’s long-running Off-Broadway drama, ‘Black Angels Over Tuskegee‘. 

He also played Judas Iscariot in the 2019 40th anniversary staged reading concert production of Jamaican Easton Lee’s classic passion play, ‘The Rope and The Cross‘, held in New York.