Deborah Hazlett welcomed me into the company, put her arm around me and asked, "You know you are a leading lady, right?"

Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): The Revolutionists (Marianne Angelle), Intimate Apparel (Esther), Dot (Shelly), Death of a Salesman (The Woman), A Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice), Ruined (Mama Nadi, City Paper Best Actress Award), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Vera Stark), A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth Younger, City Paper Best Actress Award), Doubt (Mrs. Muller), Gem of the Ocean (Black Mary, City Paper Best Actress Award), Yellowman (Alma), and others. Regional: Olney Theatre Center: Proof (Catherine); Round House Theatre & Olney Theatre Center: Angels in America I & II (Angel); Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss, Next Fall, Wrinkle In Time; The HUB Theatre: Redder Blood; Woolly Mammoth (Resident Company Member): Botticelli the Fire (Madre Maria), Zombie: The American (Helen Hayes Nomination), We are Proud to Present… (Helen Hayes Nomination), The Convert (Helen Hayes Award), Clybourne Park (Helen Hayes Nomination), and others; Theater J: Queen’s Girl in The World (solo piece, Helen Hayes Award); Washington National Opera: Lost in the Stars; Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth Younger), Love in Afghanistan; Hangar Theatre: Piano Lesson; The Kennedy Center: Shear Madness, Unleashed…, Mermaids…; African Continuum Theatre: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Rep Stage: Butterfingers Angel…, Anna Lucasta; Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web. TV/Film: HBO: The Wire, VEEP; PBS: Prince Among Slaves. Education: MFA, STC’s (GWU), BA University of Virginia. Private Coach Vera Katz. www.dawnursula.com.

AWARDS

2014 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play – The Convert (Woolly Mammoth)
2011 Helen Hayes nomination Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Ensemble – Clybourne Park (Woolly Mammoth)
Best Actress, City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2011 Awards
Best Actress, City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2008 Awards