Ebony Jo-Ann

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Member Since: 5/10/2007
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EBONY JO-ANN

is most recently seen in the role of Cookie in the Negro Ensemble Company's production of Samm-Art William's The Waiting Room and the Broadway run of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean . She is a Helen Hayes Award nominee for the True Colors Theatre Company's production of Langston Hughes' Tambourines To Glory .

Jo-Ann has also appeared in the Broadway productions of Drowning Crow at the Biltmore Theatre and The Sunshine Boys with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Sheila's Day , (co-author), the original and the 2003 revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , and Mule Bone , as well as the off-Broadway productions of Crowns , at the Second Stage Theatre, Inacent Black and Do Lord Remember Me . Her regional credits include the Equity tour of If This Hat Could Talk , in the role of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Javon Johnson's Sanctified at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in the Southern Writers' Project. Regina Taylor's Crowns at the McCarter Theatre and Drowning Crow at the Goodman Theatre, Waiting To Be Invited (ACT Theatre/Seattle and the Denver Center Theatre), The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae , Heaven And The Homeboy , Spunk , From the Mississippi Delta , Lost In The Stars , Bubblin' Brown Sugar , and Fame: The Musical . She has been in the national and international tours of The Wiz with Stephanie Mills, Satchmo , Apollo: It Was Just Like Magic , and Sheila's Day , in Toronto, Ontario and Grahamstown, South Africa.

Ebony most recently completed two upcoming films; Noise , and Jumper . Also two pilots; NY-70 / NBC-TV and The Prince /WB-TV, The Jury , as well as, Law & Order SVU , 100 Centre Street , the PBS American Authors Series and the Campbell's Chunky Soup campaign with the NFL standout Terrell Davis. She is also featured in the hit films, Kate & Leopold , Marci X and The Orphan King . Other films include Pootie Tang with Chris Rock, Eddie with Whoopi Goldberg, The Day The Ponies Came Back , The Other Brother , The Stand-In , Charlie Hoboken , Fly By Night , Dark Waters , Chain of Desires and Frederick Douglass: An American Life . Other television credits include New York Undercover, Law & Order, Outreach (pilot), The New York News, and One Life To Live.