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our actresses for 2017!

Introducing our 2017 Season. We have three Mini Muse workshops, as well as our ongoing series I INTERVIEW ACTRESSES and various research projects!

Jessica Frances Dukes.

Déa Julien.

Lynn Cohen.

Jessica Frances Dukes
September

Ms. Dukes is an Obie Award winning actress based in New York City, hailing from Washington DC. She was a part of the team that all walked away with Obie Awards for Playwrights Horizons' Booty Candy, which Ms. Dukes originated in DC. She has had TV appearances on The Good Wife and A Raisin In The Sun Revisited on PBS, as well as Flonaze commercials on BET. She has been a part of 4 Helen Hayes Best Ensemble nominations and one Suzi Bass Best Ensemble nomination. www.jessicafrances-dukes.com.

Déa Julien
July

Lynn Cohen
June

Déa Julien: West Side Story 1st Nat’l Tour (Rosalia / dir. Arthur Laurents & David Saint). New York: Blueprint Specials (Public Theater UTR / Tom Ridgely), STET (Abingdon Theatre / Tony Speciale), Intimacy (The New Group / Scott Elliott), Lawnpeople (Cherry Lane / Elena Araoz), Abraham’s Daughters and The Seven Little Foys (Fringe NYC), Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays (Public Theater). Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus. Film: Cut In Half  (dir. Susan Seidelman), Public Speaking, Fan Girl. Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women. www.deajulien.com.

In New York, Lynn Cohen has appeared onstage in Big Love at Signature Theatre Company, Chasing Manet at Primary Stages/59E59, The Children of Vonderly at Ma-Yi Theater Co./CSC, in Macbeth and Hamlet at The Public Theatre, and in Ivanov at Lincoln Center, among many other Off-Broadway and regional productions.  Onscreen, she is best known for playing Magda in the HBO series, Sex and the City, as well as in the 2008 film of the same name, and the 2010 sequel. She also notably played Mags in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.