I'm a Vassar grad with an MFA from Rutgers. From child advocacy at the Children's Defense Fund to Award winning actor/playwright in the world premiere of "Liberty City" off Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.

I did not wait to be chosen

Early in my career, I focused on the classics from Medea to Lady Macbeth at Classical Theatre of Harlem & the Acting company.

Those skills prepared me for TV/Film/Theatre earning credits on CBS' "BULL, "Blue Bloods," "Gotham" Law & Order, "The Exonerated,"Blue Caprice" to Clybourne Park on Broadway.

Learning to make my own work was a critical part of my development as an artist. From an interpreter of work to a creator of work, I joined SimonSays Entertainment where I learned how to produce and fund indie film & Broadway projects. Our first 4 films: "Night Catches Us,"Gun Hill Road," "Blue Caprice" & "Mother of George" premiered at Sundance.

While acting in "Clybourne Park" on Broadway, I was also on the Broadway producing teams of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and the Tony-Winning revival of Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald.

When I wasn't on stage during the day, I wrote and developed my second play "Good Bread Alley" which had developmental workshops at The Arsht Center for the Performing Arts & New York Stage & Film.

Once I understood how much power there is in producing your own work, I successfully completed $100,000 Kickstarter in 30 days to develop and workshop "Good Bread Alley" culminating in a workshop production of the play with a small orchestra.

Forging my own way in the business was something I knew was my destiny. Because the container for American storytelling is far too small to hold the stories of a brown woman working class intellectual raised in a sea of struggle and revolution amidst three different cultures rife with colorism and economic strife. I needed a whole lot more than Hollywood's meager containers for all the stories I had to tell.

Armed with the tenacity that growing up with less provides; receiving an upper class Ivy education while balancing very real economic realties required the ability to align who I knew myself to be in spite of the limited framework the world had created for me. That required mastering the rules I intended to break to tell stories that were the complex truth of my SoulsSong in a world unprepared for the truths I held.

When you enter the world of storytelling this way, you never expect the haphazard systems you're taught to navigate in school and in the industry to work for you. Instead of moving through the world begging for acceptance, you understand that yours is a story that has not been told and in order to live your dreams out loud, you will have to create, imagine and launch your own stories just like Quinta Brunson, Issa Rae, Brit Marling, Michaela Coel & Shonda Rhimes.

And that is what I've done and what I teach my clients.

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