Justin is a writer, actor, and visual artist. He was born in Oakland, California. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a double minor in Theater and Visual Arts. After graduating from UC Davis, Cary moved back to the Bay Area where he became heavily involved in the local theater scene. In 2009, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue film and television.
Since then, he has made appearances on popular shows like Jane the Virgin, Supergirl, S.W.A.T., and NCIS. Cary made the jump to his first feature film in, Blindspotting. In 2018, Cary was cast as a series regular on Netflix’s Black Summer. He is currently shooting the second season for Black Summer.
SHINY STUFF: Project Greenlight Finalist; Winner of NAACP Awards for Best Ensemble for “The Meeting”; Winner of Ovation Award for Best Ensemble for “In The Red and Brown Water.” Winner of dopest wife and daughter ever.
Nico is a screenwriter, poet, performance artist, and mindfulness teacher. He received his BA from UC Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Studies Field School, specializing in cognitive linguistics. From developing work as a Project Greenlight Finalist to being an adjunct lecturer at Cornell University to writing and performing in a theater piece on water politics that featured at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Nico is truly a cross-platform artist.
While engaged in a deeply fulfilling artistic career, Nico also proudly serves as a mindfulness facilitator for InsightLA. He is interested in the many different vocabularies of healing and the holding capacity of mindfulness, particularly as it relates to embodied activism and creative ecosystems.
SHINY STUFF: Project Greenlight Finalist; Finish Funds Grant Awardee; Brooklyn Academy of Music artist-in-residence; Guest speaker and performer at over 200 universities; Member of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Living Word Project, most recently writing/performing in The One Drop Rule which premiered in SF and New Orleans; McNair Scholar; 2012 top “biracial emcee to watch for”; Feature artist on MTV2 and Myspace (because that matters); Shared stages with big name artists who had no idea Nico opened for them.