Toni Rae Salmi (A Flower Seller) is thrilled to make her Flint Repertory Theatre debut. Originally from Upper Michigan, she spent most of her theatre career in Washington, D.C. She was most recently seen in Over Her Dead Body at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other performance credits include My Body No Choice (Arena Stage), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (The Kennedy Center), American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables (Hub Theatre), Perfect Arrangement (Source Theatre Festival), The Spitfire Grill (Theater Alliance), Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest (Taffety Punk Theater Company), and Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Imagination Stage, Helen Hayes Award nomination). Toni Rae also wrote, produced, and performed Help Me, Wanda!, a rock cabaret presented at D.C.’s Capital Fringe Festival. She returned to Michigan in 2023 with her husband, Michael, Flint Repertory Theatre’s Technical Director.