Voted Best On Camera Class By Backstage Readers 2011/2012
Learn Yo' Lines Cheat Sheet
Coaching/Teaching
SUNY PURCHASE Acting For Film 2012-Currently
NYU Tisch 2013-Currently Acting In The Digital Age
On Set Acting Coach, It's Kinda A Funny Story, 2010
Actor's Center On Camera Practice 2010, Company Member Class
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
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
