ERIQ EBOUANEY (Black Tie) has over fifteen theatrical roles to his credit ranging from classic tragedies such as Medea to the farcical 1900, and including such modern classic as Genet's Les Bonnes, Le Roi Jones, Le Metro Fantome directed by Jean-Pierre Maurin, Koltes' Quai Ouest and more recently, Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1999, Ebouaney played the lead role in Raoul Peck's Lumumba, has also worked with Cedric Klapisch, Benoit Jacquot, Jean Becker and Claire Denis and can currently be seen in the indie hit Ma Femme est une Actrice (My Wife Is an Actress) for French director Yvan Attal.