BIO

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Pictured above with Frank Viveros in Caroline or Change at PCPA, 2011

Photo Credit Luis Escobar

According to my mother I have been performing since birth; arriving with a head full of hair, two front teeth, screaming at the top of my lungs, and  "eyes full of water".

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Born in Morocco, Africa into a military family, my family moved every two years until I was a teenager.  We settled in San Diego, CA where I spent my formative years.  In Junior High School I took a puppetry, then a Reader's Theatre class and soon became hooked on theatre.  Throughout high school I became very active in community service, student government, and drama.

After graduation I sang and danced with a group called Up With People.  We toured throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.  When I arrived back to the states I was awarded a scholarship to study dance at US International University in San Diego.  It wasn't long though, before I was impatient to pursue my career in acting. 

I dropped out and ran away to L.A. with $50, my suitcase and my parent's car. I enrolled in an intensive Musical Theatre  program at the Music Center.  I delivered lunches to stock traders in L.A. in the morning to pay for rent and attended classes at night. At the end of the program a casting director saw me.  I auditioned for and got my first L.A. gig in a production of "Little Shop of Horrors" at La Mirada Theatre and got my Actor's Equity card.  A year later I joined AFTRA, then eventually SAG and started auditioning for TV.

It has been a wonderful circuitous career as a journeyman actor, performing mostly in regional theatre, doing straight plays, classical, and musical theatre, commercial work, television, a handful of films, voice-over, and most recently teaching. I've even done a little writing and have had awards and productions of my shows.

However, my most rewarding experience was traveling to Bangladesh with my husband, visual artist Peter Zokosky, to teach a summer arts program at The Asian University for Women.  I taught an introduction to acting and directed a production of Medea. 

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And the blessings continue.

RESUME

With Leo Marks in Wedding Band, Anteaus Theater Company, 2014

Photo Credit, Daniel G. Lam

FEATURE FILM

BA (HONORS)

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THE BANALITY

LEAD

(PRE-PRODUCTION)/ STRACK AZAR

I'LL BE NEXT DOOR FOR CHRISTMAS

SUPPORTING

 VISION FILMS/ DAVID JACKSON WILLIS

REBIRTH

SUPPORTING

NETFLIX/ KARL MUELLER

BUDDY SOLITAIRE

SUPPORTING

XII ENTERTAINMENT/ KUANG LEE

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SUPPORTING

WARNER BROTHERS/ BRIAN HELGELAND

TELEVISION (partial list)

THE SOLAR

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BROKE

GUEST STAR

CBS/PHILL LEWIS

MAGNUM PI

GUEST STAR

CBS/ BRONWEN HUGHES

THE RESIDENT

GUEST STAR

FOX/ SATYA BHABHA

BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW

GUEST STAR

HBO/ DIME DAVIS

NCIS

GUEST STAR

CBS/ MICHAEL ZINBERG

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE

GUEST STAR

UNIVERSAL/FOX/ LINDA MENDOZA

GOOD TROUBLE

RECURRING GUEST STAR

FREEFORM/ KELLI WILLIAMS & PETER PAIGE

REBEL

RECURRING GUEST STAR

BET/ SALLI RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD & SHELDON CANDIS

I'M SORRY

RECURRING

TRU TV/ AMY YORK-RUBIN

REGIONAL THEATRE (partial list)

BA (HONORS)

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LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S...

BILLIE HOLIDAY

ICT & EBONY REP/ WREN T. BROWN

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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

DESIREE ARMFELDT

CYGNET THEATRE/ SEAN MURRAY

FENCES

ROSE

 ICT & PCPA/GREGG T. DANIEL & TIM BOND

STUPID F'ING BIRD

EMMA

CYGNET THEATRE/ ROB LUFTY

INTIMATE APPAREL

ESTHER MILLS/MRS. DICKSON

ETC & UCI/SAUNDRA MCCLAIN & JANE PAGE

WEDDING BAND

JULIA AUGUSTINE

ANTEAUS THEATRE/GREGG T. DANIEL