Acting credits: Dr. Tanya Baker in Stray at the Cherry Lane Theatre; Other credits: one-woman show, On the Way to Timbuktu, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Passage Theatre’s Soloflights, nominated for an three Innovative Theatre Award: Solo Performance, Direction, Original Music; (AUDELCO Award); Electra as Clytemnestra at the Classical Theatre of Harlem; Gertrude in Hamlet at Take Wing and Soar Productions; The New Federal Theatre’s It Hasn't Always Been This Way. Dr. Iris Preston in Relativity, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s (AUDELCO nomination). Gratiana in The Revenger's Tragedy at the Red Theatre Bull’s; On Golden Pond (US) on Broadway and the Kennedy Center; Madame Ranevskya in The Cherry Orchard (AUDELCO nomination), The Classical Theatre of Harlem;  Jocasta/Eurydice in The Oedipus Plays at the Shakespeare Theatre; Regan in King Lear (Yale Repertory); Hecuba in Trojan Women at the Shakespeare Theatre (Helen Haynes Nomination); Prosecutor in The Trial... at the New Federal Theatre (AUDELCO Award). She is a veteran of daytime, creating long running characters on "Guiding Light" and "Another World." Television "One Life to Live," "All My Children," and FX's "Damages." Films: Annie Hall, White Girl, Almost Summer.

Directing credits: Ascension, Fringe Festival and national Black Theatre; Medea, Take Wings and Soar Productions. Cassandra Medley’s Daughter, EST; Melody Cooper’s Truth be Told, EST; Kermit Frazier’s Kernel of Sanity, New Federal Theatre; Allison Bonner’s Can We Dance. Luis Chaluisan’s Spic Chic at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Octoberfest, Repertorio Espangol and Chelsea Playhouse. Numerous staged readings at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New Federal Theatre, Take Wing and Soar Productions, Red Harlem Readers, New Federal Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Café and EST. Showcases;  I the Actor and Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre’s Raul Julia Training Unit.

Writing credits: On the Way to Timbuktu (EST and Passage theatre productions), The Empty-Hand Traveler Set No Limit to Her Desires and The Psycho-Genesis of Sexuality and a children’s book. Member of EST and the Actor’s Studio.

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