MACONNIA CHESSER*

MACONNIA CHESSER*

(Passenger 5). The Porch and SpeakEasy debuts! Theatre: Shakespeare & Company (company member; Berkshire Theatre Award for Best Solo Performance for An Iliad); Ensemble Studio Theatre; Franklin Stage; Notre Dame Shakespeare; Elm Shakespeare; New Jersey Repertory (company member); Hanover Theatre Repertory; Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Lyric Stage; WAM Theatre; Ancram Center for the Arts; The Kennedy Center; Theater Alliance (Insurrection: Holding History, Helen Hayes nomination); Tennessee Shakespeare; African Continuum Theatre; Totem Pole Playhouse; and Advice to the Players. Film & TV: The Shape of Destiny (Official selection, 2018 Women in Comedy Festival), Nothing but the Truth, Ghosts of Hamilton Street, HBO’s The Wire. Education: Shakespeare & Company, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Alcorn State University. For my mom Dorothy D. Scott Chesser and my friend Dennis Krausnick. IG: @kurlymac (she/her)

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