Deidre Staples

Deidre Staples

Deidre Staples is a DC based actor and playwright who mostly recently wrote and performed her solo show, White-ish, at the Atlas Intersections Festival. REGIONAL: The Welders: LadyM: National Players: Twelfth Night (Maria), Around the world in 80 Days (Ms. Aouda), The Crucible (Mary Warren, Rebecca Nurse); Studio Theatre: The Wolves (u/s #8); Pointless Theatre Co.: Rites of Spring (The Child.) Howard University...
Deidre Staples is a DC based actor and playwright who mostly recently wrote and performed her solo show, White-ish, at the Atlas Intersections Festival. REGIONAL: The Welders: LadyM: National Players: Twelfth Night (Maria), Around the world in 80 Days (Ms. Aouda), The Crucible (Mary Warren, Rebecca Nurse); Studio Theatre: The Wolves (u/s #8); Pointless Theatre Co.: Rites of Spring (The Child.) Howard University: Eclipsed (The Girl); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute) African Americans (The Nagged Girl) Insurrection: Holding History (Ensemble). EDUCATION: BFA in Acting from Howard University.

Plays

  • White-ish by Deidre Staples
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: racial identity, Race + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political, satire, young audiences
    Keyword: racial identity, Race, black actors, Colorism, beauty, code switching, black revolutionary, Sorority Girls
    Dotty is black. Dotty discovers she wants to be white. WHITE-ISH takes us on a black girl’s comical journey of identity and acceptance through a panhandling street kid, a black revolutionary, and sorority girls.