Maya Vinice Prentiss
About
Maya Vinice Prentiss is an SAFD Certified Actor-Combatant, Fight Choreographer, and Dialect Coach. CHICAGO: An Octoroon (Definition Theatre Company); Clyde’s, How to Catch Creation, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre) Eclipsed (Pegasus Theatre Company). REGIONAL: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (TheatreSquared); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, and Caesar (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Origin Story (Illinois Theatre). FILM: Jade. TELEVISION: The Chi (Showtime) FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Definition Theatre, The Story Theatre, The Impostors Theatre. DIALECT COACHING: Goodman Theatre, The House Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA in Drama, Spelman College; MFA in Acting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AWARDS: Jeff Award- Best Fight Choreography, Ethiopianamerica.
