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N'Jameh Camara @lady_njay is a multifaceted actor, narrator, speaker, and educator of Filipina and Gambian ancestry.
N'Jameh’s performance credits include: the New York Times Critic's Pick productions of Macbeth Off Broadway and X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation Off-Broadway/National Tour, Broadway National Tour of The Color Purple in the principal role of Nettie, World Premier of Up Here at La Jolla Playhouse, Post-Broadway runs of Junk and McNeal at Milwaukee Rep, Julius Caesar Off-Broadway, and was the recipient of the 2025 Ruth Schudson Leading Lady Award at Milwaukee Chamber Theater for which she most recently performed An Iliad, Clyde's, and The Mountaintop.
Her voice can be heard on Audible and internationally, narrating books for young audiences with Penguin Random House and Harper Collins Publishing. She has won the School Library Journal’s Best Book in Audio award, and has been nominated for the Audie Award for Best Young Adult Narration and three times nominated for the YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults award. Her narration works include but is 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 is a faculty member at UW-Madison’s Department of Theater and Drama.