KONA N. BURKS: Chicago credits include: King Hedley II, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Long Time Since Yesterday (Spotlight Reading), and Harvey (Court); The Snowy Day (Emerald City); The Grapes of Wrath (The Gift Theatre); Domesticated, How Long Will I Cry (Steppenwolf); Heaven, How I Got Here (Provision Theatre); Good People (Redtwist Theatre); Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Prologue at Steppenwolf’s Garage); Small (Open Door); Intimate Apparel, Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Illinois Theatre Center); Levi James, The Trip, A Fool Such As I (eta Creative Arts). Kona has received a BTAA Award and Black Excellence Awards for Outstanding Actor. Kona is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She attended The School at Steppenwolf, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
bio as of 4/2022