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JaMario Stills (he/him/his) Is a graduate of The Juilliard School where he received a BFA in Drama. As a professional actor JaMario has performed at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, The McCarter Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Jacksonville Symphony, among others. Stills founded the Jacksonville based Phase Eight Theater Company in 2017 and serves as it’s Artistic Director. He has directed a range of plays recognizing time-honored classics and new works by local playwrights includingThe Hot L Baltimore by Landford Wilson, MLK Boulevard by Jacksonville native and current Juilliard student Julian Robertson, a multimedia one-woman show On Purpose by acclaimed poet and performer Ebony Payne-English and Women’s Work and Food of Love- immersive theater pieces developed with prolific Northeast Florida writer, Kelby Siddons for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cafe Nola. Stills has also directed Adam Groff’s critically acclaimed plays, Live Girls and Mass and has been at the helm of Loves Labours Lost by William Shakespeare; Noises Off! By Michael Frayn; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; and Jesus Hopped the A Train by Stephen Adly Guirigis. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Directing in the Brown/Trinity Rep Program (2022).