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Maisha AZADI

BIG LIFE FREEDOM GIRL Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyon

About Me

Maisha Azadi is a seasoned professional with over 7 years experience in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes in the performing arts and entertainment industry. She is an alumnus of Morgan State University and Metropolitan College of New York and holds an M.B.A. with a specialization in Media Management. Ms. Davis’ experience ranges from the field of arts administration/ non-profit arts in the area of general management, publicity and creative development to the entertainment industry, where she has worked in the area of technical production for film festivals, concerts, special events and touring Broadway theater productions.As an actor/ writer and teaching artist, Maisha has worked for various companies and organizations including, Ogilvy, HBO, The NAACP, The United States Department of Social Security, Johnson & Johnson, Fleet Bank, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, and ENACT, LLC. Her experience as an actor led her to realize the need for quality stories with characters that she could responsibly portray. She has written and directed three stage plays, Life Unscripted, Missing: LOVE, and Broken Wings and Boulevard Dreams and her self-published book of poetry entitled AzadiSong earned her recognition and award by the African American Writers Association of Western New York in 2002. Most recently, her work was selected as part of the 2007 Inaugural Television Writers Workshop hosted by NAMIC, National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications. She is currently in pre-production for a pilot episode of Grounded Essence which she wrote and will star in.In creating her own roles as well as roles for others, Ms. Davis hopes to become a sustainable creative producer in the industry.I am a writer, so I'm at times an introvert, an actor, so at times psychotic, a mother, so at so many times nurturing, an artist, so at times a muse, a businesswoman, so at times a bit blunt.....a Scorpio, so at times a bit&*%^@$$@... (grown folks talk), and always, always a lover of life... it is definitely a beautiful struggle..
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My Interests

AzadiEntertainment’s FreedomStyle Urban Actors Academy extends from the urgent necessity to fill the void of truthfully responsible representations of Multicultural Ethnicites in film and television by utilizing the Internet platform. The mission is to train and engage acting students as tools for, and producers of entertainment that creatively aids and benefits the community through Internet Programming. The mission is realized through a three step process; -- The Three Month Actor’s Intensive/ Riters Roundtable/ Final Film Process.

I'd like to meet:

Folks in the arts that care about the proper social representations of different ethnicities in the media..... I love all folks, Folks who love life, who are living their dreams and making it happen.. not sleepwalking through this crazy time we living in and who care share a little about themselves and how they have accomplished their goals .... Musicians, Poets, Actors, particularily since AzadiEntertainment, Inc. is my production company in NYC focusing on educating the African-American actor and presenting avenues through which they can get work!!!! Hit me up Yall!! Let's make it happen

Music:

Nina Simone,Billie Holliday Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Q BOOGIES AKA DA POET John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Theonius MONKNo Doubt, Amel Larriuex, DREA, N'Dambi, Erykah, Jill Scott,Goapele, Incognito, JSAN AND THE ANALOGUE SONS, All the reggae classics, Gregory Issacs, Barrington Levy, Midnite, TADDY P, of Course Bob, Fela Kuti, Femi, Fertile Ground, Lauryn Hill Mary J. Blige, STING, De la Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Gorillaz, and so many dope-ass artists...

Movies:

..Preview of recent Project "L is for Loretta" dir. Eben Baum... for more work check out http://www.anotherdeepdesign.com/Sgmnt_GE08/GE_HPg.html

Television:

My show.. IDT

Books:

The PROPHET, Kahlil Gibran, The Power of the Subconscious Mind,

Heroes:

My Mother

My Blog

Old SCHOOL --- COLORED CONTRADICTORY THOUGHT 2001

My space b WILDwith sirens and symphonysblaring tymphonys raging at 500 miles a minute---thought I had my dose today,BUT I didnt--SOColored Contradictions lay as unconnected thought patterns on my con...
Posted by Maisha AZADI on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:52:00 PST

Born to S.C.R.E.A.M.

I S.C.R.E.A.M. from tenement rooftops, prison cellblocks, cross country bus-stops- (cause the planes cost too much)I S.C.R.E.A.M. from corner, dollar and liqour stores that breed pimps and whores...
Posted by Maisha AZADI on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:19:00 PST

Blah, Blah, Blah,

So long long since I've ceased to speak...held the tongue, burn fyah the bush of dis-beliefi smile while in others I sense the heat,the imaginations of what they want to bebut you can't walk tall on s...
Posted by Maisha AZADI on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST