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• Is a first-generation Jamaican-American.
• Studied classical theater at Oxford University for a short time through a fellowship with Howard University.
• Received classical acting training at the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab.
• Granted a full scholarship to New York University to earn her master's degree.
• Performed the role of Juliet Lapin in a 2005 Broadway production of A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at American Airlines Theatre.
• Played Ruth in a stage production of A Raisin in the Sun directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Westport Country Playhouse in 2012.
• Is also a writer, singer and dancer.