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FILM | ||
Straight Outta Compton | Lg. Supporting (Dr. Dre’s Mom) | Dir. F. Gary Gray |
True to the Game 2 | Supporting | Dir. Jamal Hill |
True to the Game | Supporting | Dir. Preston A Whitmore II |
Her | Supporting | Dir. Spike Jonze |
XX (Her Only Living Son) | Supporting | Dir. Karyn Kusama |
A Very Good Man | Principal | Dir. Max Williams |
The Rally | Supporting | Dir. Rick Reyna (Reyna Sound and Stage) |
Showtime | Supporting | Dir. Tom Dey (WB) |
Fold | Supporting | Dir. Jason Yim (Ghost House Pictures) |
TELEVISION | ||
Baselines | Recurring | Dir. Nate Parker |
General Hospital | Recurring | Various Directors (ABC FAM) |
Lincoln Heights | Recurring | Various Directors (ABC FAM) |
The Stand | Guest Star | Dir. Tucker Gates (Paramount+) |
Strong Medicine | Guest Star | Dir. Oz Scott (Lifetime) |
The Shield | Guest Star | Dir. John Badham (FX) |
The Practice | Guest Star | Dir. Jeannot Szwarc (ABC) |
Workaholics | Costar | Dir. Anders Holm (Comedy Central) |
Numbers | Costar | Dir. Dennis Smith (CBS) |
Path to Paradise |
Costar | Dir. L. Libman (HBO) |
Crossing Jordan | Costar | Dir. Allan Arkush (NBC) |
Law-N-Order | Costar | Dir. Stephen Wertimer(NBC) |
Charmed | Costar | Dir. Jon Pare (WB) |
Double Platinum |
Costar | Dir. Nina Shengold (ABC) |
Line of Fire | Costar | Dir. Rod Lurie (ABC) |
Boomtown | Costar | Dir. Jon Avnet (ABC) |
Ally McBeal | Costar | Dir. Greg Germann (FOX) |
In Search Of | Lead | Dir. Rob Englehardt (SCI-FI) |
Guiding Light | Principal | Dir. Brian Mertes (CBS) |
BROADWAY/OFF-BROADWAY | ||
Sweat | Cynthia (u/s) | Studio 54/ Broadway |
Valley Song |
Veronica | Manhattan Theater Club |
Waiting For Lefty | Florrie | Blue Light Theater Company Director Joanne Woodward |
June & Jean in Concert |
June’s Ghost |
Joseph Papp Public Theatre Signature Theater Company |
Funnyhouse of a Negro |
Duchess of Hapsburg |
Joseph Papp Public Theatre Signature Theater Company |
The Old Settler |
Lou Bessie |
Primary Stages, Dir Hal Scott |
The Sirens |
Gertrude | Willow Cabin Theater Company |
REGIONAL THEATER | ||
The Father | Woman | Pasadena Playhouse |
Tiny Beautiful Things | Letter Writer #2 | Portland Center Stage |
Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike | Cassandra | Syracuse Stage |
Proposals | Clemma Diggins | Norton Center for the Performing Arts |
A Raisin in the Sun | Ruth | Virginia Stage Company |
Doubt | Mrs. Muller | Portland Center Stage |
Intimate Apparel |
Esther Mills |
San Diego Repertory Theater |
Blues For An Alabama Sky |
Delia | Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park |
I Could Stop On A Dime… |
Kellie | Baltimore Center Stage |
To Be Young, Gifted and Black |
Lorraine | Kennedy Center |
From the Mississippi Delta |
Woman #2 |
Actor’s Theater of Louisville Syracuse Stage |
Our Town |
Emily Webb |
Syracuse Stage |
Tintypes | Susannah | Syracuse Stage |
Valley Song |
Veronica | People’s Light & Theater Company |
The Old Settler |
Lou Bessie |
Theater Works |
La Ronde |
Parlor Maid |
Williamstown Theater Festival |
Spunk | Ms. Mae/Girl/Delia |
Barrington Stage Company |
Wait Until Dark |
Susie | Actor’s Co-op Theater Company |
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone |
Martha | Rutgers University- Guest Artist |
The Wedding Band |
Julia Augustine |
Rutgers University Prof. Acting Program |
Shoestring Players |
Ensemble | Sevenoaks Festival- London, England |
COMMERCIALS – Available Upon Requests | ||
AUDIO BOOK NARRATION (Home Recording Studio) | ||
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Sugar in the Blood | By: Andrea Stuart | Tantor Audio |
Coming of Age in Mississippi (Audiofile Earphones Award) | By: Anne Moody | Tantor Audio |
Warriors Don’t Cry | By: Melba Pattillo Beal | Tantor Audio |
Sister Citizen | By: Melissa V. Harris-Perry | Tantor Audio |
V-Wars | By: Keith R.A. DeCandido | Blackstone Audio |
Darwin’s Ghosts | By: Rebecca Stott | Audible for Bloomsbury |
Friendly Ways To Organize Your Life | By: Kathleen Nadeau, Judith Kolberg | Tantor Audio |
Good Self/ Bad Self | By: Judy Smith | Tantor Audio |
Who is Carrie | By: James Lincoln and Christopher Collier | AudioGo Audio |
Princess Noire:Tumultuos Reign of Nina Simone | By: Nadine Cohodas | Audible Audio |
Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur | By: Francesca Lia Block | Audible for Bloomsbury |
Coming Home: A Novel | By: Stacy Hawkins Adams | Zondervan Audio |
It’s Up To You | By: Karen Casey | Tantor Audio |
Children of the Self Absorbed | By: Linda W. Brown, Ed. D., LPC | Tantor Audio |
Zero to Breakthrough | By: Vernice “Flygirl” Armour | Tantor Audio |
When Janey Comes Marching Home | By Laura Browder | Audible Audio |
The Little Black Book For Girlz | By St. Stephen’s Community House | Audible Audio |
Warrior Princess | By Princess Kasune Zulu | Christian Audio |
My Name is not Angelica | By Scott O’Dell | Audible Audio |
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Content) | By Zora Neale Hurston | Literary Companion |
Pushkin and The Queen of Spades (Winner Earphones Award for excellence in narration) | By Alice Randall | Blackstone Audio Books |
Better Than I Know Myself | By Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant | Blackstone Audio Books |
Bluish | By Virginia Hamilton | Blackstone Audio Books |
The Bible Experience (2007 Audie Award for Audio Book of the Year – New International Version of the Bible) | Inspired By Media Group and Zondervan | |
Left To Tell | By Immaculee Ilibagiza | Hayhouse Audio |
Time Pieces | By Virginia Hamilton | Blackstone Audio Books |
Nappily Ever After | By Trisha R. Thomas | Blackstone Audio Books |
Led By Faith | By Immaculee Ilibagiza | Hayhouse Audio |
TRAINING | ||
Musical Theater Workshop | Bob Garrett | |
Killian’s Commercial Workshop | Killian McHugh | |
Voice Over Workshop | Pat Fraley, Lisa Friedman | |
Shakespeare Workshop | Alfred Molina | |
B.F.A. | Rutgers University Professional Actor Training Program |
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Acting | William Esper, Maggie Flanigan, Victoria Hart, B. Marchant |
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Voice | Mai Loughran, Patricia Norcia-Edwards, D. Smith-Croll |
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Movement | Loyd Williamson, Lenard Petit, Leah Kreutzer |
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Audition | Beth Wicke |
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Combat | Peter Nels, Jake Turner |
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***Member of The Actor’s Co-op Theatre Company
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SPECIAL SKILLS | ||
Dance | Tap, Jazz, Hip-Hop |
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Voice | Alto | |
Dialects | West Indian, American Southern, New York, South African |
Wow! I am so excited for what's to come and I thank you for journeying with me this far.
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