Toccarra Cash

Toccarra Cash is a New York-based award-winning Actor, Public Speaker, Writer, Teaching Artist and the Creator and Host of The Image Monster Workshop. She is currently gearing up to perform in the critically-acclaimed and widely produced play, Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morrisseau at the Tony-Award winning Huntington Theatre Company in Boston this winter/spring. She was most recently seen in the Off-Broadway play, Napoli, Brooklyn last summer. Among her favorite recent roles is the co-starring role of Malika, opposite Wendell Pierce in the Off-Broadway and New Orleans productions of Brothers from the Bottom, for which she won an A.U.D.E.L.C.O. Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On television, she recently co-starred in CBS’s Blue Bloods, The CW’s Younger and USA’s Royal Pains. Her other Off-Broadway Theatre credits include: Playing with Fire (August Strindberg Repertory Theatre/Negro Ensemble Company) and The Fabulous Miss Marie (New Federal Theatre/Castillo Theatre). She has performed in many regional theatres as well, including Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, New York Stage & Film Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, True Colors Theatre Company, and the Tony-Award winning Alliance Theatre. She is a Resident Artist of the New York-based theatre, The Cell. Her work in film includes ATL (Warner Bros.), Blue Car (Miramax), independent films Faraway Eyes, First Match, Gracie’s Keeper, Rosy, and the critically acclaimed independent film Hands to the Sky, which aired last fall on Magic Johnson’s network, Aspire. You may have seen her in the Black Friday national commercial for Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) entitled “Miller House,” in which she starred with the former Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach, Bill Cowher.

In addition to her acting career, Toccarra has a major presence in the corporate and educational media sectors as a Media Literacy Facilitator for HBO, where she leads the Young Media Minds Program—a Media Arts Program for New York City middle school students—and she is a Teaching Artist for the McCarter Theatre on Princeton University’s campus. She is also a proud graduate of the prestigious Spelman College, where she curated and co-hosted an alumni network film festival for the newly initiated Homegrown Creative Collective, a network of successful performing and visual artists who are alumni of Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. A product of the Midwest, Toccarra was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and received her M.F.A. in Acting/Directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). As a respected writer, has written movie reviews for popular African-American Women’s website, “Hello Beautiful!” and she explores Black Women’s Beauty & Image on her blog “The Image Monster” at www.theimagemonster.blogspot.com; in Spring 2017, she launched her interactive workshop of the same name, targeting 16-25 year-old young Women of Color.