BRENNIE TELLU - AEA, - SAG-AFTRA Eligible

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Résumé Print Résumé

Broadway

Ain't No Mo'

Passenger 4 & 5 u/s

Dir: Stevie Walker-Webb

Film/Television

Swipe

Supporting

Dir: Sue Kramer

Spectrum

Lead

Dir: Garfield Boston

Awry

Lead

Dir: Garfield Boston

A Mother Lost

Lead

Dir: Latifah Todd

The Homecoming

Lead

Dir: Rashad Frett

Jumbie

Supporting

Dir: Garfield Boston

Dream Under The Milkwoods

Supporting

Dir: Omar Greene

Pulp Nonsense

Supporting

Dir: David Djaco

Procession

Lead

Dir: David Lee

Redrum

Supporting

Dir: Tony Glazer

Child Support

Lead

Dir: Ngozi Thomas

TV Series/New Media

B-Sides the Series

Lead

Dir: Lin Que Ayoung

Modern Day Black Gay

Supporting

Dir: Donja R. Love

Last Days The Saga

Supporting

Dir: Kaloni Davis

Voiceover

Echoes Podcast Play

Lead

Dir: Khoa Le

Theatre Select Credits

Contentious Woman Workshop

Monroe

Play Company

MacBeth

Lady MacBeth

Digital Shakespeare Company

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Book It Repertory Theatre

The North Star

Dohneata

NYSAF POWERHOUSE THEATRE

Grace

Bea

IAMA Theatre

Asylum

Leah

HERE Arts Center

Henry IV Part II

Lady Percy

Purple Ribbon Shakespeare

Iphigenia Among The Taurians

Chorus

Central Park - Summit Rock

Doubt

Mrs. Mueller

Gibney Theatre

In Memoriam

Vinnie

Gibney Theatre

The Brothers

Eva

Players Theatre

Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Henrietta/Simon/Pilate/St. Monica

Gibney Theatre

Strike

Words

Pearl Theatre Company

Don't Sing No Blues For Me

DeeAnn

Meeting House Theatre

8 The Play

Sandy

Rotunda Theatre

Gem of The Ocean

Aunt Ester

St. Ann's Rectory

Asylum

Leah

Stagecrafters Theatre

Diary of A Secret Wife

Tanya

Interact Theatre

Judgement Day

Martyr/Dancer

Touchstone Theatre

Training

Stella Adler Black Arts Intensive

Acting/Voice/Movement

Phyllicia Rashad/Michelle Shay

Pace University

MFA Acting 2017

Kemp/Aston/Knapp & others

Rowan University

BA Communication 2013

Communication Department

On Camera Acting

Technique

Berg Studios - Gregory Berger

Dance

Ballroom/West African

Alvin Ailey Studios

Solo Show Workshop

Solo Show Development

Barrow Group - Seth Barrish

Griffiths Master Class

Acting Intensive

Heidi Griffiths/April Thompson

Private Coaching 3 months

Acting Technique & Preparation

Lee Edward Colston II

Philadelphia Meisner Intensive

Meisner Intensive - 28 weeks

Lee Edward Colston II

Private Coaching

Acting Tech. for Film/TV

Donna Marrazzo

Brennie Tellu is a proud first-generation West African activist, actor, writer, and producer. She is currently making her Broadway debut as a swing in Ain’t No Mo’. Theatre: Here Arts Center; Asylum, Gibney Theatre; In Memoriam, Doubt, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Book-It Repertory Theatre; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Film: Swipe, B-Sides, Spectrum, Awry. Education: Inaugural cohort Black Arts Institute w/ Stella Adler/Billie Holiday Theatre. MFA Acting - Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.

Physical Characteristics / Measurements

Height: 5'8"

Weight: 185 lbs

Eyes: Brown

Hair Color: Honey Brown

Hair Length: Shoulder Length

 

Liturgical Dance, Sorority Stepping, Spoken Word, West African Dance, Aerobics, Billiards/Pool Player, Bowling, Cheerleading, Combat - Stage, Hula Hoop, Jump Rope, Jump Rope - Double Dutch, Roller Skating, Running - General, Softball, Swimming - ability - general, Swimming - freestyle, Dance Ballroom, Dance Hip Hop, Dance Line/Country, Host, Improvisation, Licensed Driver, Mime, Modeling, Teleprompter, Vocal Range: Tenor, Vocal Style: Rapper, Voiceover, African Accent, American - New York Accent, American - Philadelphia Accent, American - Southern Accent, American - Standard/General Accent, British - BBC English Accent, British - Cockney Accent, Puerto Rican Accent, South African Accent