Lizan Mitchell

Broadway: Electra, Having Our Say, So Long on Lonely Street. Off-Broadway: The First Noel, Brownsville Song, Cell, Rosmersholm, For Colored Girls (25th Anniversary), Gum, Ma Rose, and Salt. Regional: The Tempest (Old Globe), Skeleton Crew (Trinity Rep), A Raisin in the Sun (Arena Stage), The Good Peaches (Cleveland Play House), The House That Will Not Stand, (Yale Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Victory Gardens), Dead and Breathing (CATF, National Black Theater UK premiere), A Trip to Bountiful (Cincinnati Playhouse, Roundhouse Theater). Film/TV: Detroit, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Deadbeat,” We’ll Never Have Paris, “Golden Boy,” “John Adams,” “The Good Wife,” The Human Stain, The Preacher’s Wife, “Sesame Street,” and “The Wire.” Lizan received the Black Theater Alliance Award, Audelco Award, and 2018 Helen Award for Best Actress. She is a founding member of Quick Silver Theater Company.