Nehassaiu deGannes
What's In A Name?
On first encounter, folks may find my name a little difficult to pronounce, so lets start there:
né-hé-sigh-u is a little song
say to yourself, "I'll never lie to you"
now say Né-hé-sigh-u
and... di-ganz rhymes with "hands"
Lots of great info right here on the Home Page
& See my Actor Page and Resumé links for agent & contact info.
Cheers!
(photo credit: david leyes)
NEWS FOR THE NEW YEAR
Top of 2020: Nehassaiu will play "Cynthia" in Theatre Aquarius' Eastern Canadian Premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning SWEAT. Nehassaiu also played "Cynthia" in The Cleveland Play House production! How exciting to do this play again and in Canada's historic Steeltown!
Nehassaiu awarded Assembly Theater Deceleration Lab Grant to devise a new work, "EBB & lo' " in Fall 2020.
Nehassaiu plays "Krystal Rullan" in Taheim Bryan's timely indie feature EQUAL STANDARD, featuring Tobias Truvillion. Co-produced by Ice-T. Directed by Brendan Cochrane. Screening at Durban International Film Festival 2020.
Nehassaiu on the Red Carpet Ice-T & Taheim Bryan talk EQUAL STANDARD with Pix 11
Nehassaiu awarded Assembly Theater Deceleration Lab Grant to devise a new work, "EBB & lo' " in Fall 2020.
Nehassaiu plays "Krystal Rullan" in Taheim Bryan's timely indie feature EQUAL STANDARD, featuring Tobias Truvillion. Co-produced by Ice-T. Directed by Brendan Cochrane. Screening at Durban International Film Festival 2020.
Nehassaiu on the Red Carpet Ice-T & Taheim Bryan talk EQUAL STANDARD with Pix 11
HOW TO RING OUT A DECADE?!
Jan, 2018 - Feb, 2020 = 2 Off-B'way World Premieres (Soho Rep and LaMAMA) + back to back Regional productions of SWEAT, Sarah Burgess's KINGS, Thornton Wilder's transcendent OUR TOWN, a chance to revisit "Lady Capulet" rock-a-billy style! ... then add in New Play Development with Page 73's Yale Summer Residency, Barrington Stage Co., The National Black Theater, and a NY Classical/ Voza Rivers' Harlem staged reading of LEONORA (a Dolls House set in 1950's Jamaica) with me as "Leonora"... + The Canadian Premiere of Carey Crim's NEVER NOT ONCE (Jane Chambers Award for Best Feminist Play) and SWEAT in Canada's historic steel-town. It's been good!
GRATEFUL TO ALL THE MANY WONDERFUL COLLABORATORS, DESIGNERS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS & PLAYWRIGHTS!
WHAT WON FOUR OBIE AWARDS INCLUDING PLAYWRITING, DIRECTION & PERFORMANCE??? NEHASSAIU IS PROUD TO HAVE BEEN PART OF THE PRODUCTION FOLKS ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT!
"ANGIE" in Soho Rep's World Premiere of IS GOD IS.
Dame-Jasmine Hughes as "Racine,"
Alfie Fuller as "Anaia," Nehassaiu deGannes as "Angie." photo © Soho Rep. |
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