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FILMTeeny Miles in “Knucklehead” with Alfre Woodard; Connie in “Compliance” (a Sundance Film Festival award winner) with Dreama Walker and Bill Camp; Jimmy Bug in “The Exodus”.OFF-BROADWAYOriginated the roles of Margie in the premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s “Milk Like Sugar at Playwrghts Horizons, which won the prestigious Edgerton Foundation's New American Plays Award; Latonya in Radha Blank’s “Seed”- Classical Theater of Harlem; co-starred in the Premiere of Tarell McCraney’s “The Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy- the Public Theater, which won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play of the Year; co-starred in workshops of Katori Hall’s “Pussy Valley”, the Continuum Company’s “Romeo and Juliet”-the Public Theater and Classic Stage Co., "Milk Like Sugar" at Manhattan Theater Club, and "Luck of the Irish" at Lincoln Center.REGIONAL THEATERHer recent credits include the world premiere of “Milk Like Sugar” at Lajolla Playhouse, which received the San Diego Critics Circle Award; Maime in “Intimate Apparel” at Two River Theater; She originated the role of Maima in Danai Gurira’s award winning play “Eclipsed” and co-starred in the world premiere of “The Brother/Sister Plays” (dir /Tina Landau and Robert Ohara), both at the McCarter Theater Center; At Philadelphia's Freedom Theater, she played Claudia in “The Bluest Eye” and originated the role of Dolores in “Sparkle: The Musical"; She was Ernestine In “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” and Laura in “The Glass Menagerie” at The New Century Theater. She also co-starred in the workshops of Steven Adly Guirgis’ broadway hit “The Motherfucker With the Hat” at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and Sarah in Hanah Sharif’s “The Sprott Cycle” trilogy at Hartford Stage Co.INTERNATIONAL THEATERThe "Continuum Company's Romeo and Juliet" world premiere- Villa La Pietra, Florence, ItalyTRAININGMFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts BA: Temple University, Theater and Communications; Minor-African American Studies

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