LAFERN WATKINS

LaFern Watkins has appeared in Blues for an Alabama Sky at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago with director Chuck Smith.  Her other Chicago credits include, Late Bus to Mecca,  Day of Absence and Poof! at Onyx Theatre; Afrosynthesis at MPACCT, and The Temple at ETA.  Other credits include Flyin’ West, Portraits of Courage, Stories on the Wind and Gift Bringers at Karamu House in Cleveland, where she also taught drama; and Frontiers, Twelve Ways Home, Kabuki Sleeping Beauty, and A Peace from Our Hearts at Phoenix Theatre Circle.  At Ebony Theatre in Kansas , she appeared in Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, Home, Dreamgirls and For Colored Girls... LaFern also appeared in a promo with Little Richard for the Jenny Jones Show and a Universal Pictures’ pilot The 900 Lives of Jackie Frye.

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