Nana Mensah
Actor
Nana Mensah starred in Queen of Glory – which she also wrote and directed. The film won Best New Narrative Director and the Special Jury Prize for Artistic Expression at the Tribeca Film Festival, was nominated for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards and won the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind the Gap Creation Prize.
Theatre includes: Tony nominated play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York); Nollywood Dreams (MCC Theatre, New York) and Man from Nebraska – Outer Critics’ Circle nomination (Second Stage Theatre).
Television includes: Presumed Innocent; The Diplomat; The Chair; Bonding; Little America; 13 Reasons Why; Evil; New Amsterdam and An African City.
Film includes: After Yang; Queen of Glory; King of Staten Island and Farewell Amor.