“An Actor is the CEO of Their Own Business”
Welcome to my performance portfolio! I take a strategic, diversified approach to character, selecting roles that offer both a creative challenge and a connection to a larger cultural and emotional conversation. What looks like entertainment on the surface is, for me, often part of a longer arc. The throughline of my work is always resonant storytelling, ensuring that every project I join informs my broader narrative strategy.
Film Acting:
Static
After the death of his parents, Omar struggles with the limitations of mortality. Constantly torn between making the best of his situation and destroying his life.
Role(s): Cleo
Written & Directed by Christopher Bush
LOTUSLAND
While suspicious of his girlfriend cheating on him, Jovan goes to a hidden nightclub where a chance encounter changes his life forever.
Role(s): Featured Background Actor
Written & Directed by Kollin Washington
Roommates – Ep 5: “Homecoming”
Roommates is a mockumentary comedy web series.
Role(s): Guest Star & Background Actor
Produced by [Insert Name] Productions
Disclaimer: All persons presented in this video are actors playing characters, the views presented in this project do not represent those of [Insert Name] Productions, or any individuals involved in the production. This video was made for entertainment purposes.
Theater Acting:
The Bluest Eye
Novel by Toni Morrison; Adapted for Stage by Lydia R. Diamond
Gripping, thoughtful, and stunning, The Bluest Eye offers a poignant experience for familiar and unfamiliar audiences of the classic best-selling novel, published in 1970 and set in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio in 1940. The Bluest Eye is now considered an American classic and an essential account of the African-American experience after the Great Depression. It tells the powerful story of Pecola Breedlove, a dark-skinned African-American girl who firmly believes she can overcome all obstacles in her life with blue eyes (From Synchronicity Theatre’s Website).
Role(s): Pecola
Directed by Ibi Owolabi
Produced by Synchronicity Theater. Atlanta, GA.
Machinal
by Sophie Treadwell
Machinal is an expressionist play about the status of women in a society run by men, money, and machines through the experiences of a woman in a loveless marriage.
Role(s): Ensemble
Directed by Matt Dickson
Produced by The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. The Irma Sandrey Theatre. New York, NY.
Revived for the Tisch Drama Main Stage All Studio Festival. Abe Burrows Theater. New York, NY.
Love and Information
by Caryl Churchill
Love + Information = Humanity
‘A kaleidoscope’ of the many ways love and information are processed in life through the stories of 100+ characters. The Irma Sandrey Theatre. Directed by Leah Reddy.
Role(s): Various
Produced by The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. The Irma Sandrey Theatre. New York, NY.
The Beginning of Gold: A United Queendom
A process of moving toward being found.
A devised movement theatre piece written and directed by Aigner Mizzelle and inspired by the struggle for the visibility of black women. An exploration of what it means to move through the world in our bodies and to discover ourselves. A collaboration between all performers and Mizzelle.
Role(s): A Queen
Produced by Playwrights Horizons Theatre School in New York, NY.
