Hettie Barnhill

  • Hettie Barnhill
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Film director, Choreographer, Actor, Activist
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

American actress, director, choreographer, and activist.

Hettie BARNHILL (Hettie Barnhill) is a Broadway actress, a director, a choreographer, and the founder of ‘Create A Space NOW' an interactive social platform that uses performing arts and multimedia to further discussion around #blacklivesmatter and the recent events and race relations in America. Hettie was nominated for a 2017 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Choreography and has performed nationally, internationally including Rome's Italian TV show Amici and on Broadway in the production's "Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark", Tony Award-winning "FELA!" (original cast), and the Tony award-nominated "Leap Of Faith" (original cast). In 2014 Hettie, opened ‘Movement & Characters', a school dedicated to providing industry-level, professional classes in the performing arts for students of all ages, levels, and financial backgrounds, operating in Greater New York & New York City.

Hettie Graduated from Columbia College in Chicago, IL, and currently is completing her Master of Fine Arts, in Interdisciplinary Studies-Performance Creation at GODDARD College. Offstage, Hettie has taught at several Colleges and Universities and continues to use her art as therapy for people in need, receiving awards for her outreach and service in communities including The NAACP's "Top 21 Leaders 40 & Under Award" In The Fields Of Arts & Culture, Twice Honored As A "Rising Star" By The Young & Powerful For Obama Group, The Shirley Chisholm "Women Of Excellence". Since 2006, Hettie has worked with A Long Walk Home Inc. a nonprofit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to document, educate and bring about social change for survivors of rape and violence. This fall she will be on faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga NY.

Other selected credits include; NYIT Award nom. A Cabaret At The End Of The World (choreographer) The Metropolitan Opera's Romeo & Juliet, Elektra, and Lulu, Dallas Theater Center's "FLY" A New Musical, Face-Off Unlimited Improv NYC's Batsu, Pillow Fight (choreographer) The St. Louis MUNY Opera's Hairspray, Aida, Camelot and Meet Me In St. Louis. Riverside Theater's La Cage Aux Follies and St. Louis Black Rep, Guys & Dolls. Television and Film; Law & Order SVU, The Knick and King Bolden. As an instructor, Hettie has taught at Stephens College, MO, Mark Morris, NY, SUNY Ulster, NY Theater Department, JCC Triple Threat, Mohonk Mountain House, SUNY, New Paltz, NY, Sam Houston State University, TX, Music Department and Encore Dance Competition for the Stars NJ (judge).

Hettie began dancing at Pelagie Green Wren Dance Academy when she was three years old and later at the Katherine Dunham Center of Performing Arts School. She is a graduate of COCA Pre-Professional Program & COCAdance and a 2002 graduate of Central Visual Performing Arts High School of St. Louis, Missouri. During high school, she spent her summers as a student at The Alvin Ailey Theater.

AWARDS & HONORS
- THE NAACP "TOP 21 LEADERS 40 & UNDER AWARD" IN THE FIELDS OF "ARTS & CULTURE
- TWICE HONORED AS A "RISING STAR" BY THE YOUNG & POWERFUL FOR OBAMA GROUP
- THE SHIRLEY CHISHOLM "WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE" AWARD
- FRED & ADELE ESTAIRE AWARD 2010 "BEST FEMALE DANCE ENSEMBLE IN A BROADWAY SHOW"
- TWICE HONORED "WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES"
- HONORARY MEMBER OF SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY

She is known for her feature "A LOVE LETTER TO BRIAN, LESLEY, AND MICHELLE" (2021).

Official website
www.hettiebarnhill.com

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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