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UC San Diego credits:

Incendiary (staged reading) and The Jefferson Middle School Monthly (WNPF ‘19), Everybody Black, A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, Joshua (WNPF ‘18), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again and The Green Cockatoo

 

 

Assata Amankeechi

Third-year MFA Acting Candidate

 

Education

BA in Theatre from Spelman College

 

Biography

Assata is a third-year MFA Acting candidate from Atlanta, GA. She found the acting bug early, working under award-winning director Woodie King Jr. as Maretha in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Tennessee Repertory Theatre). Assata holds a BA in Theatre from Spelman College. SC credits: Toulou in Hoodoo Love, Vera in Seven Guitars, Jeanie in Fat Pig, and Asia in Gee’s Bend. Regional credits: Jane Seymour in Anne Boleyn (Synchronicity) and “Baby” Dauvergne in Preparations (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). Assata has studied at New York’s The American Theatre Wing and Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre and The Alliance Theatre. UC San Diego credits: Incendiary (staged reading) and The Jefferson Middle School Monthly (WNPF ‘19), Everybody Black, A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, Joshua (WNPF ‘18), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again and The Green Cockatoo.