N'Jameh Camara

N'Jameh Camara is an actor and author currently residing in New York. She is a first generation American of Filipina and Gambian ancestry. She was recently in the John Doyle production of Macbeth at Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway. She was also last seen in the post-Broadway run of JUNK by Ayad Akhtar, and the Broadway Tour of the Tony Winning Revival The Color Purple in the principal role of Nettie, directed by John Doyle. Other credits include the World Premier of X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation by Marcus Gardley, Off-Broadway Julius Caesar, and a Bobby and Kristen Anderson Lopez World Premier of Up Here at the La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Alex Timbers. Her voice can be heard on Audible, narrating books for Penguin Random House Publishing. Her upcoming book will be Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson. Other works include: “The Long Ride,” “Gravity,” “Fumbled,” “Harbor Me,” “We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices,” “A Peoples’ Future of the United States,” and “You Bring the Distant Near.”

N'Jameh received her Master of Fine Art from University of California- San Diego. She has taught acting and movement workshops at various universities including UW-Madison, Loyola University- New Orleans, UC San Diego, SUNY Oswego, Northern Arizona University and University of Central Missouri.