Actress, Singer, Dramatist

Richarda Abrams, 4X AUDELCO award-winning actress/singer/playwright/producer: Big Mama and Me, BETHUNE: Our Black Velvet Rose, and First By Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune.  Additional Performances include: Having Our Say (East Lynne Theater Co.), Fear Itself (Crossroads Theater Company), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Ivoryton Playhouse), Liberty Talks (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), 365DAYS|365PLAYS (Public Theater), Ascension (Cherry Lane Theater), 2ndStage,  American Rot (LaMama) (director Estelle Parsons), Telling Tales Out of School (New Federal Theatre) (director Woodie King, Jr.) and MultiStages.  Film/TV: I Am Here, The Subject, The Riverside Bench, Oreos With Attitude (Showtime) CBS, ABC, LIFETIME, Sesame Street. Singing: with her father Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams’ CD (Song For All) Black Saint Records, and Amina Claudine Myers' Generation IV.

Richarda’s received NYSCA Theater Commissions and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grants. She is fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts. She's served as a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SU-CASA artist teaching creative drama to seniors.  Memberships include: Actors Studio, ART/NY, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, New York City Chapter, Inc. co-founded by her father Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams, Episcopal Actors Guild, Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, New York Women In Film and Television and the League of Professional Theatre Women. Richarda holds a B.F.A. with honors (Acting) New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts & a M.A. (Educational Theater) NYU’s Steinhardt-University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College, ENGLAND.

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