N'Jameh Russell-Camara @lady_njay is a multifaceted producer, actor, speaker, and educator of Filipina and Gambian ancestry. She is the former Director of Programs at Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the Education and Engagement Department and is the Founder of the Pandemic Pregnancy Project, a national collection of interviews turned into monologues of people who experienced birth and pregnancy during the pandemic. PPP collection is now published and archived with the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

Stage credits include Camae in The Mountaintop at Milwaukee Chamber Theater, the John Doyle production of Macbeth at Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway, the post-Broadway run of JUNK by Ayad Akhtar at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, First Broadway National Tour of the Tony Winning Revival The Color Purple in the principal role of Nettie, directed by John Doyle, the World Premier of X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation by Marcus Gardley Off-Broadway with The Acting Company, Julius Caesar Off-Broadway with The Acting Company, and the Bobby and Kristen Anderson Lopez World Premier of Up Here at the La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Alex Timbers.

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.

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.