Tonya Pinkins is a Tony Award winning actress/singer who has starred in nine Broadway shows

including the original CAROLINE OR CHANGE. She has won or been nominated for nearly every award there is in the American theater. She is a Fulbright Specialist.

In addition to being an actress and author, Tonya is a playwright, director and educator.

Tonya wrote the essay WHY I AM FED UP WITH PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM FROM BLACK AND WHITE THEATER MAKERS has been made required reading at universities including Yale School of Drama.

She starred in 245 episodes of the soap opera ALL MY CHILDREN. Also starred in 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, Gotham, Scandal, Fear the Walking Dead, and Madam Secretary.

She played Alma Carthan, Emmett Till’s grandmother in ABC/HULU’s WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT.

Tonya plays Mrs. Marie Willis on the hit show from BET, SISTAS which you can catch right now on BET.

Her Award Winning Film RED PILL from 2021 has already been translated into Spanish, Catalonian, Russian and Greek.

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