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Annet McCroskey is a talent manager and producer at Artistic Endeavors in Los Angeles. She won a Heller Award for Manager of the Year in 2013 and served as the President of the Talent Manager Association from 2013-2015. Annet co-produced the feature film Locating Silver Lake (Amazon, Hulu) starring Josh Peck, Finn Wittrock, Audrey Peebles and Zelda Williams, a micro pilot for Disney, as well as a short film for the Disability Film Challenge.

Her clients have won Daytime Emmys, have presented at the NAACP Image Awards and have been series regulars on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Nickelodeon, ABC, Fox and many other networks as well as starring roles in major Oscar winning studio films.

Annet is a member of The Sundance Institute, Emmy voting Member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Film Independent and Women In Film. Annet serves on the Advisory Board of SAG's The Actors Fund's Looking Ahead Program for young performers. She loves making artists' dreams come true and making sure diverse voices are represented in all media and storytelling.

Harry Lennix is a distinguished film, television and stage actor. For the last seven seasons, he has starred as Harold Cooper, Assistant Director of Counterterrorism for the FBI on NBC’s The Blacklist. Moviegoers know Lennix as General Swanwick, from the Warner Brothers blockbuster Man of Steel and the hit sequel, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.

In 2014, Lennix created Exponent Media Group, a movie production company he founded with longtime Chicago associate Steve Harris. Projects completed include Mr. Sophistication about a brilliant but self-destructive stand-up comedian and H4, a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV with an all-black cast filmed onstage and in the streets of South Central L.A. The third film, Revival!, a re-telling of the gospel according to John the Apostle, is a joyful blend of Gospel fantasia, Broadway musical, and epic historical drama starring Mali Music, Chaka Khan, and Michelle Williams, among many others.

In 2018, Lennix made his off-Broadway NY directorial debut with A Small Oak Tree Runs Red at The Billie Holliday Theatre. The original production first staged at Chicago’s Congo Square Theatre as part of their August Wilson New Play Initiative, was also directed by Lennix. The New York production was honored with the prestigious Audelco Award for Best Production in 2018.

Robi Reed has nearly 30 years of experience in the film and TV industry and over 50 movies under her belt as an Emmy-winning casting director and producer. She is behind the breakout movie roles for some of Hollywood's brightest stars, including Halle Berry, Samuel J. Jackson, and Jamie Foxx.

After 25 years of running her own company, Robi Reed Entertainment, Reed joined the executive ranks at Black Entertainment Television Networks (BETN). In her new position as Vice President of Talent and Casting for Original Programming, she oversees all scripted and non-scripted shows for the network, including the NAACP Image Award-winning mini-series The Bobby Brown Story and The New Edition Story, American Soul based on the legendary Don Cornelius and Soul Train, the music anthology drama series Tales, and the hugely successful series The Game and Gabrielle Union’s Being Mary Jane.

Satisfying her philanthropic nature, Reed launched The Reed For Hope Foundation (RFHF). The mission for RFHF is to raise funds to support Sickle Cell Disease awareness and its foundations, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention organizations, women and children’s health initiatives, and disease prevention and healthy lifestyle/living platforms. Each cause sits very close to Reed’s heart.