acting news:
* Nambi was just nominated for a Black Theatre
Alliance Award for her work in Goodman Theatre's THE GOOD NEGRO.
* Nambi will be completing her Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts
from Goddard College in January 2011.
* Nambi was just invited to be an artistic affiliate with American Blues
Theatre in Chicago.
Nambi was featured in the March
2010 issue of Chicago Magazine and in an April issue of Chicago's RED EYE
publication for her work on The Blue Shadow, Lost Boys of Sudan, and The Good Negro.
* Nambi was nominated for a 3
Arts Artist Award in the category of theatre as an actor and playwright. An anonymous nominator-a Chicago Artist
or arts leader-selected her to be a candidate for a no strings attached cash award of $15,000.
* Nambi, who originated the role of
Harriet Jacobs at Steppenwolf Theatre will reprise her role as Harriet in HARRIET
JACOBS, written by Lydia Diamond. The show will run October 22-November 21,
2010 at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. www.kcrep.org
* Nambi recently closedTHE LOST BOYS OF SUDAN at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, written
by Lonnie Carter and directed by Jim Corti.
* Nambi most recently closed Goodman Theatre's
production of THE GOOD NEGRO directed by Chuck Smith.
Nambi BOOKED
a guest star role on a new t.v. show called THE BEAST. She plays opposite Patrick
Swayze as a homeless veteran of the Iraq war.
*
Nambi BOOKED 2 t.v. national voiceover spots, one for Suave, and a television
spot for Pop Tarts.
* Nambi BOOKED 3
demo voiceover spots for Warm Delights, Pop Tarts, and Flintstones Vitamins.
* Nambi BOOKED a television commercial for Michigan Lottery.
* Nambi's John Deere commercial continues
to run! Look for it, they play it often :)
* Nambi was nominated
for a Black Excellence Special Award for her work in Steppenwolf's HARRIET
JACOBS.
playwriting news:
* Nambi
just returned from Italy as one of 17 writers selected to participate in an international symposium of playwrights
with LaMama Experimental Theatre featuringPulitzer Prize winner Lynn
Nottage.
* Nambi's play, XTIGONE
will enjoy 2 productions at CSUEB and the African American Shakespeare Co. in San Francisco
in Fall 2010 and Fall 2011.
* Nambi's play FOR
ROY, directed by Steppenwolf's Hallie Gordon was part of The Silver Project at American
Theatre Company where 25 writers , including Pulitzer Prize Finalist Kristoffer Diaz,
David Henry Hwang, and Regina Taylor, were asked write a short piece
focused on any year between 1985 and 2010.
* Nambi was recently honored with an award for her contribution to playwriting
in Chicago at the kick off event for the Black Ensemble Theater's Black Playwright's Initiative
Festival.
* Nambi will return as a guest lecturer at Lake
Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, for the spring semester 2011 doing more extensive work with students
in African American Theatre and playwriting.
* Nambi was named the Ellen Stone Belic Institute/Goodman
Theatre Fellow . Nambi's fellowship includes her researching and developing an original play for the Goodman Theatre. The play will receive development at the Goodman, and will be part of the New
Plays Festival at the Goodman Theatre. Nambi shares this honor with Genius Award and Pulitizer Prize winner, Lynn
Nottage.
* Nambi was
one of several writers participating in the Living Newspaper Project hosted by American Blues Theater
, and was one of 5 writers to further workshop the play at the University of Chicago, 2010.
*
Nambi's writing just enjoyed publication in an anthology of work by African-American writers title The
Blaq Market: Monologues and Scenes .
* Nambi's
play THE BLUE SHADOW with original music by Joe Plummer recently
enjoyed a successful run at Lifeline Theatre . The recently published illlustrated
short story of THE BLUE SHADOW, is available for purchase through Amazon.com or at Lifelinetheatre.org.
* Nambi
was awarded The Friends' Fellowship by the Ragdale Foundation, which funds
an artist residency in Lake Forest, Illinois. The fellowship included Nambi being in residence for 2 weeks to write
and develop her own play.
