About Me
I am an AEA and SAG-AFTRA actor.
Height: 5”9
Hair Color: Auburn
Eyes Color: Dark Brown
Location: New York City
Selected Film and Television
Venin Films - The Return of Tragedy - dir. Bertrand Mandico
Palm/Snake
Amazon Prime/Taffy Films - The Audition
Bathsheba
The Criterion Channel - Manuelle Labor - dir. Marie Losier
Sister
Special Skills
I build dolls, type fast, move well, sing reasonably (soprano.) I've taught acting and theater workshops at Trinity/LaMaMa semester in NY; at The Liberian Cultural Association in Staten Island, and at detention centers and jails in New York City.
Training & Workshops
Selected Theater (NYC, Regional, and International)
B.F.A. in Acting, Rutgers University
African dance, Djoniba Dance and Drum (seven years.)
Portland Stage/St.Clements NYC - Babette's Feast
Phillipa
Folger Shakespeare Co / Brooklyn Academy of Music ElizabethR/Text & Beheadings
Elizabeth R
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company - Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven - HERE Arts Center, U.S. and Int'l Tour
White Person #1
Selected Plays Written
The Reenactors - dir., Tony Torn - Abrons Arts Center
Saint Latrice - PS 122; Theater Graz in Austria
Screenplay adaptation workshopped at Sundance Institute and optioned by Killer Films Company
GO GO GO - dir., Anne Bogart
PS I22 and The London International Festival of Theater. German language production performed in Kiel and Athens, Greece
Grants and Awards
Project support from the N.E.A.; NYSCA; and Greenwall Foundation for workshop of play, ECSTATIC STATES, commissioned by the Foundry Theater
Sundance Screenwriter's Fellowship for adaptation of my play SAINT LATRICE
OBIE Award for Performance in Richard Foreman's MARIA DEL BOSCO
Audiobooks and Voice Work
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs by Janet Peery, Macmillan Audio
All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer (with Ari Fliakos), Macmillan Audio
Nominated for an Audie Award
Commercial voiceovers for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kodak, and others