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about me
Height: 5"4 | Eye Color: Brown | Hair Color: Dark Brown
Richarda Abrams, AUDELCO award-winning actress/singer/playwright/producer. Performances: MultiStages, Crossroads Theater, Ivoryton Playhouse, 2ndStage, LaMama, Cherry Lane, Public Theater. Written works: First By Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune, BETHUNE: Our Black Velvet Rose and Big Mama and Me. Richarda’s received NYSCA Theater Commissions and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grants. She is a LMCC SU-CASA artist, fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts. Memberships: Actors Studio, ART/NY, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians co-founded by her father Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams, Episcopal Actors Guild, Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, NYWIFT, and League of Professional Theatre Women. Richarda holds a BFA with honors (Acting) New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts & a MA (Educational Theater) NYU’s Steinhardt-University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College, ENGLAND.
REGIONAL THEATER
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FEAR ITSELF (World Premier) Ivory Crossroads Theatre Company
HAVING OUR SAY Sadie Delany EastLynneTheaterCo Cape May
GUESS WHO IS COMING TO DINNER Tillie Ivoryton Playhouse, CT
HOUSE OF LATTISVILLE (World Premier) Francesca Montgomery Lattisville Depot Theatre, NY
LIBERTY TALKS (World Premier) Sojourner Truth W.H.A.T. Cape Cod, MA
NEW YORK THEATER
FILM/TELEVISION
TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL Jessie Fauset NewFederalTheatre|Woodie King
LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT Gloria LaMaMa ETC.|Estelle Parsons
CONTRIBUTION Katy Jones 2nd Stage Theatre
ASCENSION Tillie Cherry Lane Theatre
365DAYS/365PLAYS Finale Sin Collector Public Theatre
AMERICAN ROT (World Premier) Jacqui Scott LaMaMa ETC.|Estelle Parsons
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES Little Coochie Snorcher HERE Arts Center
THIS BIRD OF DAWNING ... Nancy Ferrett Actors Studio | Paul Calderon
BOOTY CANDY The Mothers & Plaintiff Dir. Robert O'Hara
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS... Pete Biancin|Turkle Playground|Barefoot Theatre Co.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE Vicentio, The Duke Take Wing and Soar Prod.
BETHUNE: Our Black Velvet Rose Mary McLeod Bethune TheaterLab
HARRIET'S RETURN (Solo Show) Harriet Tubman The Acting Company
FIRST BY FAITH (Solo Show) 13 Character Solo Show United Solo| IBTF |14St Y
BIG MAMA AND ME (Solo Show) Big Mama and Richarda Episcopal Actors Guild
SINGING
THE SUBJECT Amber Gray V/O Lanie Zipoy|Chisa Hutchinson
OREOS WITH ATTITUDE Co-Lead SHOWTIME (Apparatus Prod.)
NOISES IN THE DARK Lead Sesame Street CTW
ACCEPTANCE Co-Lead Dir. Amanda Moresco
I AM HERE Supporting Barefoot Pictures
AS THE WORLD TURNS Co-Star CBS
ONE LIFE TO LIVE Co-Star ABC/James DePaiva
CD: Song for All Vocalist/ Co-Songwriter IREC/Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams Ensemble Vocalist Roulette Intermedium
Amina Claudine Myers Generation IV Gospel Vocalist WinterJazz|BRICJazz|SPAIN
Amina Claudine Myers Voice Choir Jazz/Gospel Vocalist VisionFest|SonsD’HiverFRANCE
Training
PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL - Dorothy L. Sayers
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (NYU), Tisch School of The Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing, B.F.A. with honors in Drama
NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, M.A. (Educational Theatre)
University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College (ENGLAND)- Drama and Theatre in Education
Music Theory: Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)
Voice: Amina Claudine Myers |Sensory Work: David Gideon |Dream Work: Elizabeth Kemp |Pvt. Study: Susan Batson
Special Skills
African Dance, Deposition Witness, Double Dutch Rope Jumper, Roller Skating, Host, Improvisation, V/O, Singer, Teleprompter. Accents: Midwestern, Standard & Southern American, Caribbean. (Valid Passport) Local Hire: NY |Chicago
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