Kelechi Kelechi

Kelechi Ezie is an actress, singer, and writer from Buffalo, New York. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she earned a degree in History and Theater, and won the Walter Phelps Hall Prize in European History for her original thesis Reading What Is There: Africans in Early Modern England. She moved to New York shortly after to pursue an acting career, and began working in plays and musicals. Kelechi originated the role of Jessica in the Off Broadway premiere of Tearing Down The Walls, written and directed by Obie-Award Winner Daniel Beaty, with music by Jamal Joseph & Charles Mack. Kelechi wrote, co-produced and starred in the award-winning short film The Truth About Beauty and Blogs, an official selection of Ebertfest 2012.