PORTIA
THEATER:
Broadway:
Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird (Shubert Theater Company); Florin in The Rose Tattoo (Roundabout Theatre Company/Williamstown Theatre Festival); Ensemble in The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (The Ambassador Theatre)
Off Broadway/Regional:
Bev in Redwood (Ensemble StudioTheatre)Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem (Pittsburgh Public Theater) Lady in dont get got(Williamstown Theatre Festival: Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination) Mama in STEW (Page 73) Brenda in Rinse Repeat (Signature Theatre Company) Cynthia in SWEAT (Mark Taper Forum) Jackie Zinner in Artney Jackson (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Mrs.Dickson in Intimate Apparel (Bay Street Theatre) Tress in The Way West (LAByrinth Theatre Company) Patricia Cole in Queen for a Day (Theatre at St. Clements) The Selector in How We Got On (Cleveland Playhouse) Rose in Fences (McCarter Theatre; Long Wharf Theatre) the role of Stage Manager in Our Town (Fords Theatre) Mama Nadi in The Pulitzer Prize winning production of Ruined (MTC and The Geffen Playhouse) Berniece Sadie Brown in the London production of The Member of The Wedding Grace in Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theater Company) Opal in McReele (Roundabout Theater Company) The Treatment ( The Culture Project) No Child ( TheaterWorks) Frankie & Johnny (Hartford Stage) Our Lady of 121st St. and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (LAByrinth Theater Company)
Television/New Media: Diarra From Detroit , New Amsterdam,The Enemy Within, Madame Secretary, Bull, Big Dogs, Elementary, She’s Gotta Have It, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, CSI, Hart of Dixie, Good Luck Charlie, Ugly Betty, Lipstick Jungle, 30 Rock, Law & Order, Law & Order CI. hop thA A (Audible), Pleasure Machine (podcast) Dirty Laundry (Audible)
Feature Film: Lapsis, Skin, All The Little Things We Kill, From Nowhere, Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, St. Vincent de Van Nuys, Silver Tongues, The Greatest, The Messenger, Please Give, Synecdoche, The Girl in the Park, Freedomland and World Trade Center.
Portia is a member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA