Black artists face unique challenges in their careers on a daily basis. Every other Thursday, join us in conversation with influential Black artists about what they have faced and how the future must change.
Tune in with Ahmed and co-host Jacole Kitchen this Thursday, October 8 at 4 PM Pacific to hear performer Karole Foreman‘s perspectives on how the industry can do better and be better for Black artists and communities everywhere.
Karole Foreman is an award-winning stage actor, singer, and writer who lives in Los Angeles, CA. Television credits include Magnum PI, The Resident, Broke, recurring roles as Keisha Williams in Good Trouble on Freeform and Attorney Claudine Dudley in Rebel on BET. Other shows include N.C.I.S., Black-ish, I’m Sorry, True Detective, Brooklyn 9-9, G.L.O.W., How to Get Away with Murder, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Kingdom, Training Day, Lethal Weapon, Rizzoli & Isles, Young & the Restless, Heartbeat, Grinder, Jane the Virgin, Stitchers, Switched at Birth, and Medium. Film: The Banality, I’ll Be Next Door for Christmas, Rebirth, Buddy Solitaire, and 42.
She has recently finished an encore performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at The Ebony Rep and ICT. She was nominated for a San Diego Theatre Critic’s Circle Award for her performance as Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at Cygnet Theatre. She also played Bess in Porgy and Bess at Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara. Other plays and musicals include Mama Mia!, Caroline or Change, Next to Normal, Fences, Haunted House Party, Stupid F’ing Bird, Sweeney Todd, Intimate Apparel and Wedding Band
Karole is currently directing a devised production at UC Irvine with graduate composing student Leslie Wickham. The show is called The Jubilee and Me: Songs I Never Got to Sing. It will be a limited streaming event fall of 2020 on the UCI School of Drama website. She was also invited to be an Artist in Residence at New Musicals, Inc and to head up their new initiative for black artists writing for Musical Theatre. The program is called AMPLIFY at NMI. Karole also another artist in residency with Noise Now at A Noise Within to workshop her new urban opera Rule My World, in 2021. The show is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. For more information go to: www.rulemyworldmusical.com.
Her children’s musical, Buddy’s Big Day Out was co-produced by The Children’s Theatre of Long Beach. It was produced over two summers 2018 and 2019.
To keep up with her future projects go to: www.karoleforeman.com
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