Music:
Member Since: 5/10/2007
Band Members:
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.
Ebony is the proud recipient of six Vivian Robinson
AUDELCO Awards for Bessie Smith:
Empress of the Blues ,
Black
Nativity ,
Cotton Club
Magic , Do
Lord Remember Me ,
The Trial Of One Short-Sighted
Black Woman vs Mammy Louise and
Safreeta Mae and
Crowns .
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
