Richarda Abrams

AEA SAG AFTRA

www.RichardaAbrams.com
Richarda@RichardaAbrams.com

Height:54 * Weight:150 * Voice:Alto

Memberships: AACM The Actors Studio League of Professional Theatre Women New York Women in Film and Television

THEATRE
HOMELESS AND HOW WE GOT THAT WAY

Eloise Jean Mosley

ROUST THEATRE COMPANY

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could

HERE Arts Center (Dir. Andrea Bertola)

VIEUX CARRE
FIRST BY FAITH, THE LIFE OF MARY
MCLEOD BETHUNE (By Richarda Abrams)
BOOK OF LIFE (By Odile G. Katese)

Nursie

Rwanda Genocide Survivors

Director Austin Pendleton

New Federal Theatre, LPTW, Tour
(Dir. Kim Weston-Moran)
United Nations (Dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser)

STORIES FROM HELL & HIGH WATER

(7 Character Solo Perf.) (Dir. Lorca Peress)

WAM Theatre Festival, Berkshires

MORPHO-GENESIS (By Fengar Gael)

AN EVENING WITH LANGSTON HUGHES

Dr. Hannah Waverly (Dir. Lorca Peress)

Woman

New World Stages - LPTW Festival

Poets Den Theater (HADLEY Players)

SASSY MAMAS

Jo Billie Massey (Dir. Pat Floyd)

Poets Den Theater (HADLEY Players)

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Vincentio, The Duke (Dir. Dathan B. Williams) Take Wing And Soar Productions

HELL AND HIGH WATER

Lady Mississippi (Blues singer)

Multi Stages

ASCENSION(FringeNY/Natl Blk Thtr Fest)

Mathilda (Dir. Petronia Paley)

Cherry Lane Theater

IN THE BLOOD (By Suzan-Lori Parks)

Hester La Negrita

Kennedy Center Festival

365 DAYS/365 PLAYS FINALE

Sin Collector/Suzan-Lori Parks

The Public Theatre (Dir. Joanna Settle)

CONTRIBUTION

Katy Jones (Dir. Yana Landowne)

2nd Stage Theater

FEAR ITSELF

Ivory (Dir. Imani Douglas)

Crossroads Theatre

LEIR REX (KING LEAR)

Reagan (Dir. Ernest Abuba)

La MaMa E.T.C.

HARRIETS RETURN

Harriet Tubman (Solo Perf.)

The Acting Company

AMERICAN MA(U)L

Georgina Jefferson (Dir. Robert OHara)

Culture Project

WE ARE YOUR SISTERS

Black Heroines (AUDELCO Mention)

Blue Heron Arts Tours

BLIND SIGHT (YARA ARTS GROUP)

Anna Sharapova

UKRAINE Tour

HOME

Pattie Mae (AUDELCO Award)

HADLEY Players

INSURRECTION

Mutha Wit (Dir. Robert OHara)

Columbia University

Mary McLeod Bethune (Solo Perf.)

TV/FILM
SHERRI

Sherris Stand-in/Church Lady

LIFETIME

OREOS WITH ATTITUDE

Ms. Dorothy Lavish (co-lead)

SHOWTIME

AS THE WORLD TURNS

Newspaper Photographer #1 (U/5)

CBS

ONE LIFE TO LIVE

Waitress/ Island Bartender (U/5s)

ABC

COSBY

Humorous Bar Patron (Day Player)

CBS

NOISES IN THE DARK

Young Mother (co-lead)

Sesame St. Childrens TV Workshop

COMMERCIALS/INDUSTRIALS

(Conflicts Upon Request)

SINGING
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS
AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS

CD: Song for All

Amina Claudine Myers Voice Choir

Black Saint Records

NYC / European Tours

TRAINING
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing: Bachelor of Fine Arts w/Honors (Acting)
NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College (ENGLAND)
Master of Arts (Educational Theatre)
The Actors Studio: Susan Batson, Elizabeth Kemp, Allan Miller, Gary Swanson (Scene Study/Sensory Work), Salem Ludwig (Elia Kazans Script Analysis)
On Camera Technique: Aleta Chappelle (Film Acting) Ellen Novack (TV, Episodic & Commercial Acting)
Voice: Amina Claudine Myers Music Theory: Muhal Richard Abrams

SPECIAL ABILITIES / AWARDS

Sports: Soft Ball, Skating, Kick Boxing, DD Rope Jumping, Biking Movement: African Dance, Ballet, Tap, Belly, Plastiks
Accents/Dialects: West Indian, Jamaican, South African, French, Standard & Southern American, Midwestern, Knowledge of French
Improvisation Expert Deposition Witness Corporate Trainer Attorney Behavioral Consultant Executive Asst. Acting Coach Sewing
Great with Children & the Elderly Awards: Al Jolson Award (NYU Academic Excellence), AUDELCO (Excellence in Black Theatre)
NYS Driver License Drive Standard Car Current Passport Available