Zakiya Young
Zakiya Young is an accomplished actress, singer and playwright. Last August, she was honored to participate in the esteemed Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival as both playwright and actress as she continued her exploration of Black suburban life in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests in her autobiographical solo show “Suburban Black Girl”. Favorite acting credits: TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (HBO), Iron Fist (Netflix), Orange is the New Black (Netflix). Broadway: Stick Fly, The Little Mermaid and Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off Broadway: Storyville (Audelco Award nomination). Tours: Disgraced and Good People. Regional: Familiar, Spamilton and It’s a Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman. Zakiya was the featured female vocalist for the New Haven Symphony’s Americana concert series, voiced characters in video games, narrated several audiobooks that can be found on Audible and is the voice of Ruby, the Kooky Mom on Little Demon (FX).
Past Events
Beverly Hills Avant-Garde: From Surrealism to the Sunset Strip
Rachmaninoff Was Here Festival
at the Beverly Hills Women's Club
The Beverly Hills Songbook
Rachmaninoff Was Here Opening Event
at The Maybourne Beverly Hills