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Caleb Eberhardt, Nehassaiu deGannes, Anthony Cason
Is God Is WORLD PREMIERE
Nehassaiu originates "Angie" in Soho Rep's Obie-Award Winning, NY Times Critic's Pick Extended Sold-Out Off B'way Run of
Aleasha Harris's genre-bending IS GOD IS (2018.)
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Jasmine Hughes, Alfie Fuller, Nehassaiu deGannes

​"Esther" in Intimate Apparel, Shakespeare & Co, 2017
Directed by Daniela Varon
"Best Performance In A Play 2017" ––– The Wall Street Journal's Year

The Last Wife of Henry VIII, "Kate Parr," in Kate Hennig's contemporary reimagining, Directed by Kelly Galvin at  WAM THEATRE (FALL 2017.)

Nehassaiu bests Marisa Tomei to win Inaugural 2016 Berkshire Theatre Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Female) 
in 
Liz Duffy Adams' Or, directed by Alice Reagan
Shakespeare & Co.


photo credit: Ava Lindenmaier
"Nehassaiu deGannes excels..."  The Boston Globe
"guffaw-worthy" Albany Times Union
"If there is an audacious, unbridled, go-for-broke, Puckish spirit in this production it resides in the diminutive, thoroughly captivating deGannes 
 who does triple duty as Lady Davenant; Aphra's servant, Maria; and the irrepressible Nell Gwynne, who wins Aphra's love and Charles' lust and demonstrates in the process one can indeed have one's cake and eat it too. This is a woman who embraces the life force and makes her way at full gallop." The Berkshire Eagle
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"Cordelia" KING LEAR
Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Nehassaiu deGannes brings off the too-rare feat of making a fierce and positive impression as Cordelia instead of fading blandly into the scenery. --- Wall Street Journal

[an] unbendingly honest Cordelia... Nehassaiu deGannes, lovely but far from wimpy--- Chicago Sun Times
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"Marisol's guardian angel [is] a radiant Nehassaiu deGannes" --- The Star-Ledger 

Read the entire NY Times Review  pictured below

"The Angel" in the first NY Area professional revival of Marisol since its Obie-winning premiere.
Luna Stage  Directed by Niegel Smith

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Nehassaiu's 2013 Stratford Festival of Canada debut with two principle roles: "Lady Capulet" in Romeo & Juliet, directed by Tim Carroll (whose Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III  garnered him a 2014 Tony Nomination) and  "Anne of Austria, Queen of France" in The Three Musketeers, directed by Miles Potter, as well as ensemble & "Nerissa" understudy  in Antoni Cimolino's The Merchant of Venice. 
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