Leveling Up: First Recurring Role

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Leveling Up: First Recurring Role

Reese Antoinette, Omari K. Chancellor, Jaedynn Latter and Adina Verson

Thursday, August 6, 2026

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Join us for a panel with actors who have recently booked their first recurring role on a television series. We will discuss their audition process, how they work with their representation and how they have and will continue to 'level up' their career. This panel will feature Reese Antoinette (Bad Money and Dexter: Resurrection), Omari K. Chancellor (Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette), Jaedynn Latter (Murderbot) and Adina Verson (Only Murders in the Building).

BIOS:

Reese Antoinette is an American actress and proud daughter of Caribbean immigrants. She was recently seen in Showtime’s Dexter: Resurrection, Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey, and the feature film The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire. She holds an MFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and trained at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. Reese is also the co-founder of The ORIXA Project, a sci-fi mixed reality installation exploring Black women’s narratives across the past, present, and future through virtual reality, 360° video, and augmented reality. She debuted the project while serving as an Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Barnard College. She also co-produced and starred as Kiki in the horror-comedy short Sam & Kiki, which premiered at the 23rd Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles. Reese is passionate about initiatives that support women and girls. She previously served as Graduate Student Senator and Head of Diversity at NYU and has mentored students through the Ghetto Film School. A New York native, she now splits her time between New York, Miami, and Los Angeles... or wherever the next story takes her.

Omari K. Chancellor Film/TV: Ryan Murphy’s “Love Story” (FX), “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” (Apple TV), “Elsbeth” (CBS), “Chicago Med” (NBC), more. Off Broadway: Amani (Rattlestick). Regional: soft (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Fences (The Old Globe). Directing: commercial campaigns for Puma, Chipotle, Fiskars, Underground Grillz, and more. Founder of GYALDEM.us, a Brooklyn-based film production company. Education: M.F.A. from NYU’s Grad Acting Program at Tisch. Represented by Paradigm, alongside Ashley Vickery Management.

Jaedynn Latter is from Southern California and is a 2025 graduate of Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. She most recently starred as Éponine on the national tour of Les Misérables. Regional credits include Jenna in Waitress, Little Red in Into the Woods , Deb in Ordinary Days,  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Natasha…Great Comet of 1812, Bare, and Sense and Sensibility. Since 2020, Jaedynn has produced original music and began releasing her songs in 2024. You can find her on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and all other major platforms. Jaedynn can be seen as a recurring guest star on the upcoming season of Apple TV’s Murderbot, premiering next year.

Adina Verson (they/she). TV credits include Poppy White on Only Murders in the Building, Dr. Tabitha Park on New Amsterdam, Nannerl Mozart on Mozart in the Jungle, and Miriam Setrakian on The Strain. Theatre credits include the original casts of Liberation (Broadway, Roundabout), Indecent (Broadway, Ahmanson), A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum), Wives (Playwrights Horizons), Collective Rage(MCC), Eddie and Dave (Atlantic), and The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), for which they were nominated for a Lortel award. They can be heard narrating the audiobooks The Mortons, Man’s Best Friend, Motherthing, Trust Exercise and Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. Adina holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory, and a MFA from the Yale School of Drama.