AYANNA BRIA BAKARI is making her Court Theatre debut. Chicago credits: Purpose, Last Night and the Night Before (Steppenwolf); Relentless, Too Heavy for Your Pocket (TimeLine); Relentless, How to Catch Creation (Goodman); As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare); The Niceties (Black Theater Alliance Award) and Stickfly (Writers Theatre). Regional: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Colored Museum (Studio Theatre); The Salvagers (Asst. Dir. at Yale Repertory Theatre); Clyde’s (TheaterWorks Hartford); Sunflowered (Northern Sky Theater); The Rainmaker (Peninsula Players); The Originalist (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Television: Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Chi, Chicago P.D., Chicago Fire, Empire, 61st Street. Film: Holiday Heist. Education: BFA, The Theatre School at DePaul University. Ayanna Bria is a governing ensemble member of The Story Theatre and is represented by Stewart Talent. #BLACKLIVESMATTER. Instagram — @ayannabakari_.
Bio as of 8/2025