Biography

Harriett D. Foy is an award-winning actress who has performed for audiences from Broadway to Dubai. She can be heard on the cast albums for Amelie, Amazing Grace, Lone Star Love, Reunion and Inside Out. Harriett is a proud Bison, graduate of Howard University where she received her BFA in acting. She is a native of New Bern, NC but grew up in Brooklyn and Maryland. She has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to play Rosie in Mamma Mia (debut) on Broadway.

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Harriett D. Foy is an award-winning actress who has performed for audiences from Broadway to Dubai. She is a 2018 AUDELCO Lead Actress in a Play recipient, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominee for The House That Will Not Stand by Marcus Gardley. Ms. Foy is the Board President of The Lighthouse Opera Company in NY, sits on the Board of Directors for the Al D. Rodriguez Liver Foundation and the Advisory Board for A Mile in My Shoes Inc. Her Broadway credits include... "Amelie," "Amazing Grace," "The American Plan", "Mamma Mia," and "Once on This Island." Harriett is the creator and star of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder, a one-woman play with music based on Slave Narratives. She made her concert debut at Merkin Hall in "The African American Spiritual" produced by B. Arts Presenter and can be heard on the Original Cast Recordings for Amelie, Amazing Grace, Lone Star Love, Reunion, and Inside Out.

Ms. Foy's Masterclass is entitled "The Versatile Actor"

Harriett is a native of New Bern, NC, by way of Brooklyn, NY (PS 46) and Forestville, Maryland (Andrew Jackson Jr. High and Suitland Sr. High) ...She is a proud alumnus of Howard University (Howard Player) where she received her BFA in acting.

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