ROSALYN COLEMAN

A 2003 Fox Fellow Award winner, and nominated for a 2006 Barrymore Award as Best Actress for her performance in Intimate Apparel at the Philadelphia Theater Company, this busy actresses Broadway stage credits include Radio Golf, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson, Mule Bone, and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. Off-Broadway she starred in the world premieres of Whose Family Values and Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) by Sarah Schulman at Playwright's Horizons/The Women's Project. Other notable New York stage credits include the critically acclaimed Breath Boom directed by Marion McClinton at Playwright's Horizons and The Old Settler at Primary Stages.

Recently wrapped playing the lead in the independent film INDELIBLE, Rosalyn’s film credits include: VANILLA SKY, OUR SONG, BROWN SUGAR, HOOK'D UP, EVERYONE'S DEPRESSED, THE WINDOW, THE OPPORTUNIST and MUSIC OF THE HEART. Television appearances include: Recurring roles on NBC’s KIDNAPPED, DC on the WB and HBO’s OZ. Guest starring roles on NYPD BLUE, NY UNDERCOVER, , and several appearances on LAW AND ORDER SVU and Criminal Intent. Rosalyn was cast in and just completed shooting the television pilot OUT OF COMMISSION.

In 2002, with her husband and partner Craig T. Williams, Rosalyn formed Red Wall Productions, a film Production Company. Rosalyn has created and directed over fifty film projects. Including industrials, promo videos, educational videos and actor demo reels.

Rosalyn is the director of the award winning short film ALLERGIC TO NUTS written by husband Craig. ALLERGIC TO NUTS has been seen on several TV stations nationally and screened in over 50 film festivals in the US and around the world. Other film director credits include: DRIVING FISH, DRAWING ANGEL, BROKEN, THE STARTER MARRIAGE, LAYLA'S MOURNING, WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE FOR A GOOD CIGAR, TWISTED, ENDS & BEGINNINGS, THREE WEEKS IN HELL, SCRAMBLED SOFTLY and WOULD I LIE TO YOU. Director of the re-enactment portion in the groundbreaking documentary BLACK SORORITY PROJECT, her next directorial assignment will be the feature film "JIMMIE," a romantic comedy written by Lorisa Bates and Craig T. Williams.

Rosalyn loves to teach. She was hand picked by Coach to the Stars Margie Haber to be the east coast representative of her world famous studio, “The greatest pleasure for me as a teacher is to facilitate the person to reach their humanity. I want my clients to leave the room knowing their personal power as a base to communicate anything that a human is capable of experiencing.” Margie Haber, who has personally coached Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Heather Locklear, trained Rosalyn to teach her Cold Reading Technique. Rosalyn has also taught at Actor's Connection, Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Rosalyn graduated Cum Laude with a BFA from Howard University and with an MFA from Yale Drama School. At her graduation from Yale she received the prestigious Carol Dye Award, the only award given for acting.
During her tenure in show business Rosalyn has worked with Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Charles Dutton, Tom Cruise, Danny Glover, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodward. She has worked with writers August Wilson, Craig Lucas, Sarah Schulman and Walter Mosley all on new projects.
Directors include Lloyd Richards, Arthur Penn, Cameron Crowe, Marion McClinton, Regge Life, Phillip Rose, Israel Hicks, Oz Scott, and Wes Craven.

Rosalyn has written and performed one person shows at Manhattan Class Company, Shooting Gallery and Baby Jupiter among others.
Rosalyn is a member of New York Women in Film and Television, the East Coast Writers Collective and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio

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