Los Angeles, CA – Sundance Institute announced today the acting company for its 2009 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab to be held July 7 to July 22 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The 2009 ensemble company includes: Oni Monifa Renee Brown, Baraka de Soleil, Colman Domingo (The Wiz, Passing Strange, Well ), Giancarlo Esposito (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Peter Friedman (Ragtime, Body Awareness), Tracy Gilbert, Meredith Hinckley (Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Acting Award Winner), Laura Innes (ER), Lisa Joyce (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, That Pretty Pretty), Francis Jue (Coraline, Yellow Face, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Ellen Maddow, Sahr Ngaujah (FELA!), Denis O’Hare (Racing Demon, Take Me Out), Adesola A. Osakalumi (FELA!), Maximillian Osinski, Adriana Sevan (Taking Flight) and Maria Thayer.