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N'Jameh Camara @lady_njay is a multifaceted actor, narrator, speaker, and educator of Filipina and Gambian ancestry.

Actor’s Equity Member. SAG-AFTRA Eligible.

Stage credits include The Poet in An Iliad, Letitia in Clyde’s and Camae in The Mountaintop at Milwaukee Chamber Theater; Broadway National Tour of The Color Purple as Nettie; Off- Broadway as Lady MacDuff in Macbeth at Classic Stage Company; Off Broadway as the Judge in X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation with The Acting Company; Off-Broadway as Calpurnia in Julius Caesar; Post-Broadway run of JUNK at Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and Up Here at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Alex Timbers, and The Wiz with Theater at the Center.

Her voice can be heard nationally and internationally for audio works published by Penguin Random House and Harper Collins. Credits include but are not limited to: Children of the Stone City; Knot Again; The Fastest Way to Fall; When Life Gives You Mangos; A Universe of Wishes; 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.

She is also the Founder of the Pandemic Pregnancy Project (PPP), a national collection of interviews turned into monologues of people who experienced birth and pregnancy during the pandemic. PPP is now published and archived with the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

N’Jameh received her MFA from the University of California- San Diego and taught acting at UW-Madison and UC-San Diego with various workshops at Loyola University- New Orleans, SUNY Oswego, Northern Arizona University, and University of Central Missouri.