• Hettie Barnhill
• Skidmore

Hettie Barnhill is a Filmmaker, Director, Chorographer and
Broadway actress. Her film, A Love Letter to Brian, Lesley, and Michelle has been selected and awarded in festivals currently showing nationally and internationally. Hettie is the founder of ‘Create A Space NOW’ an interactive social platform that uses performing arts and multimedia to further discussion around #blacklivesmatter and the recent events and race relations in America. Hettie was nominated for a 2017 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Choreography and has performed nationally, internationally and on Broadway in the production’s “Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark”, Tony Award-winning “FELA!”” (original cast), and the Tony award-nominated “Leap Of Faith” (original cast). In 2014 Hettie, opened ‘Movement & Characters’, a school dedicated to providing industry-level, professional classes in the performing arts for students of all ages, levels, and financial backgrounds.

Hettie teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga NY and currently is completing her Master of Fine Arts, in Interdisciplinary Studies-Performance Creation at GODDARD College. Offstage, Hettie has taught at several Colleges and Universities and continues to use her art as therapy for people in need, receiving awards for her outreach and service in communities including The NAACP’s “Top 21 Leaders 40 & Under Award” In The Fields Of Arts & Culture, Twice Honored As A “Rising Star” By The Young & Powerful For Obama Group, The Shirley Chisholm “Women Of Excellence”. Hettie graduated from Columbia College in Chicago, IL.

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• Performances – Hettie Barnhill, Duhirwe Rushemeza