Fredericka Meek

Hailing from the Windy City, Fredericka performed in the pre-Broadway workshop of Car Wash the Musical: The Norman Whitfield Story where she played Bunny, Norman's niece and a hopeless romantic. She also toured the USA and Canada as one of two "Coquettes" performing with Conan O'Brien in his "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television" Tour. Recipient of an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Supporting Blactress, this rising star is one of the founders of the uniquely funny all female sketch comedy group, "Illuminaughty By Nature." IBN is making waves in LA as a female comedy force and is in production on their web-series, "Melanin, Boobs and Periods-Season 1." No stranger to the comedy scene, Fredericka has headlined Comedy Festivals, and through her production company HeyGurrrrrrl Productions, won Best Ensemble Cast and Best Comedy Series at LAWeb Fest for her first webseries, and was nominated for Best Comedy Short at the Trail Dance Film Festival. She also completed 2 seasons of "Paradise Drive." a semi-scripted webseries developed for Comedy Central. Additional TV/film credits include the TV pilots Dak Tandy and Willing and Able, guest spots on ABC's Work It, TBS's Conan, TNT's Franklin & Bash, NBC's Tonight Show, Fox TV's Head Cases, NBC's Passions and ABC's General Hospital, as well as the festival-winning films Nothing Doing, Massage Therapy and El Mariachi Negro, where she portrayed Heidi, a feisty bilingual Bolivian. Fredericka recently starred as "Destiny" in the critically acclaimed musical "Love in All The Wrong Faces", produced by Laval Belle and directed by Taja V. Simpson. Other theatre includes The Starmaker, Little Shop of Horrors, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Body Language: The Musical, Sheba and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She recently was a featured vocalist in an HIV/AIDS Awareness benefit near to her heart- "The Silence Is Broken," produced and directed by Patrick Gandy and starring Loretta Devine and T.C. Carson. Performing in such exotic locales as India, Chile, Hawaii and Japan, she has shared the stage vocally with such music legends as Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, Cheryl Lynn, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Ollie Woodson (former Temptation), rock/metal sensation Marilyn Manson, European pop star Bosson, and R&B great Dave Hollister. Her story continues..."El que la sigue, la consigue."