Directing/Teaching Experience
Taught for 10 years including on camera acting, audition technique, and stage performance in private and classroom. Taught classes and workshops at professional acting schools and studios including: The American Conservatory Theatre, The Actor’s Connection, Harlem School of the Arts and currently with The Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles. Directed numerous film and theatre projects for the past five years and acted in film and TV Shows and on Broadway since 1990.
Coaching/Teaching
Suny Purchase Acting Program Film Acting, Fall Semester 2011
On Set Acting Coach, It's Kinda A Funny Story, 2010
Actor's Center On Camera Practice Company Member Class, 2010, 2011
On Set Acting Coach, HBO's IN TREATMENT, 2nd Season (worked with minor)
In Treatment: On Camera Acting Technique: Actor's Connection 2009-Present
Ongoing Cold Reading Technique Margie Haber Studio, NY 1999-Present
New York Film Academy Summer Intensive, 2007
Intermediate Cold Reading Workshop Margie Haber Studio , NY 2002-Present
Cold Reading Seminar Your Act Studios - Atlanta 2005
Intermediate Cold Reading Workshop Your Act Studios - Atlanta 2005
On Camera Acting Workshop Sol Film Festival - Norfolk 2005
Audition Technique American Conservatory Theatre 2003
On Camera Acting Ripley Greer Studios 2005-2006
Film Acting Harlem School of the Arts 2004
Filmmaking Workshop Apple Store Soho 2004
On Camera Acting Class Ariane Brandt Acting Studio 2003
Bam You Got The Job Actor’s Connection 2003
Building A Character Duke Ellington School of the Arts 2002
Building A Character Howard University 2002
Playwriting/Acting Manhattan Theatre Club 1999-2002
Playwriting/Acting 52nd street Project 1999-2003
Private Acting Coaching New York, New York 1999-Present
Directing
HURTS LIKE LOVE Short Film, 2010
THE TRUTH ABOUT BEAUTY AND BLOGS Short Film, 2011
COOL KIDZ Short Film, in post production 2010
MOTH TO A FLAME Short Film 2009
BFF Short Film 2009
WHAT WE BECAME Second Unit Director 2009
DRAWING ANGEL Short Film 2007
BLACK SORORITY PROJECT Documentary (re-enactment) 2006
SHANEEQUA CHRONICLES Electronic Press Kit 2006
IT ISN’T THE MOON World Premiere Play 2006
UNDERGROUND MAN Short Film 2005
ALLERGIC TO NUTS** Short Film 2003
VANESSA WILLIAMS Electronic Press Kit 2003
JEREMY EXPLODES Educational Film 2003
DRIVING FISH Short Film 2002
LUDLOW FARE Play 1990
Education: Yale School of Drama, MFA Acting 1990
Howard University, BFA Cum Laude, Drama 1987
Continued Professional Development Actor's Center Teacher Development Workshop, Sam Chistensen Intensive Workshop, Writing Workshop, Ela Their, Advanced Cold Reading Master Class, Margie Haber, Teaching Apprentice Master Acting Class, The Actors Center, Lloyd Richards Master Playwriting Workshop, The Public Theater, George C. Wolfe Fiction Memoir Writing Workshop, Greg Lichtenberg Method Writing, Kathrin Seitz Transformational Acting, Sande Shurin
Professional Unions and Associations The Actor’s Studio Lifetime Member, New York Women in Film Member, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, East Coast Writers Collective, DIVA Inc., 90 Scenes Writing Group
Awards and Honors Received **Best Director Motor City International Film Festival, **Best short film DC. Shorts, **Finalist Hollywood Black Film Festival, Fox Fellow 2003 , *Outer Circle Critics Award, *Drama Logue Award, Named Young Gifted & Black by the Daily News 2003, Audelco Nomination1999, Owen Dodson Award 1987
Published Writings, New York, NY- 1999-Present Black Masks Magazine(Tribute to August Wilson), Method Madness Magazine , Allure Magazine, Pagentry Magazine , Thank Yo’ Mama (prose and poetry collection) Vacation (prose and poetry collection),
Special Skills: Filmmaking, Story Development, Script Analysis, Final Cut Pro Editing, DVD Studio Pro