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Ayanna Bria Bakari
Ayanna Bria Bakari is a Governing Ensemble Member of The Story Theatre. She graduated with a BFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Some of her Chicago theatre credits include: Andy Warhol Presents: A COCAINE PLAY (Associate Dir. & Wig Design at Jackalope Theatre); Big White Fog (Court Theatre); Purpose, Last Night and the Night Before (Steppenwolf); Relentless, Too Heavy for Your Pocket (TimeLine Theatre); Relentless, How to Catch Creation (Goodman); As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare); The Niceties (Black Theater Alliance Award), Stickfly (Writers Theatre); Pot Girls (Director at The Story Theatre), At The Wake of a Dead Drag Queen (Asst. Director, 2019 & Wig Design, 2025 at The Story Theatre), Leave me Alone! (The Story Theatre). Regionally, her theater credits include: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Seattle Rep); The Colored Museum (Studio Theatre); The Salvagers (Asst. Dir. at Yale Repertory Theatre); Clyde’s (TheaterWorks Hartford); Sunflowered (Northern Sky Theater); The Rainmaker (Peninsula Players); The Originalist (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Ayanna Bria’s television credits include recurring roles in Wu-Tang: An American Saga on HULU and The CHI on Showtime, along with guest roles on Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, Empire on FOX, and 61st Street, now streaming on Netflix. In 2019 she made her film debut in Holiday Heist on BET. She is represented by Stewart Talent.
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