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RAIN PRYOR

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RAIN PRYOR

is an entertainer, director, writer, playwright, speaker, activist, Osun priestess, wife and mother, and wants to assist you in finding and living out your desires, and breaking down racial biases. Directing credits include Hoodoo Love by Katori Hall at Spotlighters Theater in Baltimore, The Exonerated and How I Learned To Drive at UMB, and later, MILF, Moms I’d Like to Follow written and performed by comedian Meshelle The Indie Mom of Comedy. The show won Best Stand Up, at the United Solo Festival in NY and has played to sold out crowds across the country, including Joe’s Pub in NYC. Rain was artistic director of the Strand Theatre in Baltimore in 2010. She directed three of their highly successful shows and brought the company into a financial surplus. Mother May I by humorist Dylan Brody, was Pryor’s directorial debut. The show was the Strand's first World Premier and was sold out. Rain co founded Baltimore Theatre Works, that brought theater to underserved schools. Rain shares her views on race and has lead panel discussions on diversity in education and in the entertainment industry at Princeton University, The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore, Atlanta, and Cannes. She won an NAACP for her irreverent solo show Fried Chicken & Latkes, and for her role as the evil stepsister in the Michael Jackson produced musical Sisterella. She was nominated for the prestigious AUDELCO Awards for her Off Broadway run at the National Black Theatre in Harlem. She is currently in pre-production for her film directorial debut, to be filmed in Baltimore MD and Nigeria. Pryor was nominated for the African American Literary Award in 2007 for her biography Jokes My Father Never Taught Me, Life Love & Loss With Richard Pryor, and has won numerous Black Short film awards for her That Daughter’s Crazy documentary.

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