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Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown

Production Experience


Plays

Title

Role

Place

Director

Youth Ink Festival Maleeka Ebel & Others The McCarter Theatre, Princeton  
Romeo and Juliet Mercutio (Fight&Dance Captain) Yale School of Drama Patricia McGregor
All’s Well That Ends Well Helena Yale School of Drama co-directed
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet Osha Yale School of Drama  
Eclipsed (staged reading) The Girl The McCarter Theatre, Princeton  
The Robbers Kosinsky/ Roller Yale School of Drama Becca Wolff
Covering Skyline Is Nothing Claudia/Parrinder Yale School of Drama Patricia McGregor
A Month In The Country Katya Yale School of Drama Paul Mullins
In The Cypher: A Poetry Slam Poetess, co-writer Yale Cabaret Patricia McGregor
The Imaginary Audience Stephie Walters Yale School of Drama Director Patricia McGregor
Camino Real The Gypsy, Choreographer Yale School of Drama Tim Vassen
365 Plays/ 365 Days Multiple characters Yale School of Drama Liz Diamond
Be Aggressive Head Cheerleader, Co-choreog Yale Cabaret Jen Wineman
The Effect of Gamma Rays… Matilda Square Space Theatre, South Africa  
Tales from the Brothers Grimm Storyteller & Characters Botanic Gardens, South Africa co-directed

Musical Theatre

     
Jelly’s Last Jam Hunny 1, Co-choreog. Yale School of Drama Patricia McGregor
Step Aside (staged reading) Georgia New Dramatists, NYC  
Nineteen Characters in Search… Josephine Baker, Co-choreog. AMDA, NYC Marsha Dodge
Annie Annie Playhouse Company, South Africa  
Leopard Skin Maria Kwasuka Theatre, South Africa  
Mata- Mata Thobile Playhouse Company, South Africa  

Film/ Television/ Voice Over/ Singing/ Dialect Consulting

Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Celebration Featured Vocalist Qunu, South Africa  
Coming Home (new Athol Fugard play) Dialect Consultant The Long Wharf Theatre Gordon Edelstein
As It Was Dreamed (short film) Rachel New Haven, CT  
Death of a Salesman (with Charles Dutton) Voice of Howard’s daughter Yale Repertory Theatre James Bundy
Happy Now? Voice of Cora (Bea U/Study) Yale Repertory Theatre Liz Diamond
Soviet Jeans Commercial Sandy East Coast Radio, South Africa  
Original Cast Recording (Leopard Skin) Maria South Africa  
Izwi Lami Personal album South Africa & NYC  
Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra Featured Vocalist Durban, South Africa  

Dance

     
The Tempest Ariel Yale School of Drama Jen Wineman
Threnody; Lives of African Women Dancer Courtyard Theatre, South Africa  
Flatfoot Dance Company Dancer Durban, South Africa  

Education

Area of Study      
Acting MFA 2009, Yale School of Drama
  British American Dramatic Academy, Oxford University, Oxford, England
BFA Theatre & Political Science w/ focus on Africa, New School University, NYC
Musical Theatre The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC
Dance Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
  Peridance Center
  Djoniba African Dance & Drum Center (NYC)
  Winsome Fuller Ballet Academy
  Springwood School of Dance (SOUTH AFRICA)
Voice Coach Vicki Shaghoian
  Wendy Sharp
  Linda Bukhosini
  Bongani Tembe
Stage Combat Rick Sordelet

Special Skills

Languages: Zulu, (Xhosa), French, English, Afrikaans and semi-fluent in Spanish, Dialects: various American, African, British, Caribbean, French, Spanish and Russian, Choreographer, Dialect Consulting & Coaching, Song writer , Able to sight-read music , Basic piano, drums and violin, Ex-gymnast, Clown training, Writer