JALON PAYTON* (Assistant Stage Manager, The Color Purple) is excited to be making his PSF and Pennsylvania area debut with Color Purple. Regional: Tempestuous Elements, Swept Away, The High Ground (Arena Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Everyman Theatre); The Brothers Size, A Raisin in the Sun, The Royale, Anton’s Shorts (American Players Theatre); 10 Seconds (Imagination Stage). Awards: Recipient of the Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarship for Stage Managers of Color. Education: B.A. Theatre Studies – University of Maryland Baltimore County.