Erika Wade
Erika E. Wade (born c. 1991 in Fairfield) is a writer, producer and actor.
Wade graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 2009 and earned a bachelor of arts in English at the University of Alabama in 2014. While in college she published a book of poetry entitled eyestodewhurld and served as editor of the Marrs Field Journal and as an editorial assistant for the Black Warrior Review. Wade completed a master of fine arts in dramatic writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2016. Her play inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, was a semifinalist for a program sponsored by the Kennedy Center.
Wade moved to Los Angeles, California in 2016 and has worked as a producer and copywriter. She developed a one-woman show, "The Rhythm/Da Blues", originally written during graduate school, and performed it at the Funny Women LA Comedy Festival and at the 13th Street Rep Theatre in New York before bringing it to Red Mountain Theatre in 2022 and to the Holle Center in Tuscaloosa in 2023. She has served as a playwright in residence for the Gnome Haus Theatre Company since 2017. She founded Glenda's Baby Productions in Los Angeles in 2021.
She had a voice-over role in the 2023 feature Don't Die. She also served as narrator for the Alabama Public Television series "Yellowhammer History Hunt", for which she won a southeast regional Emmy award.
External links
- Erika E. Wade at Linkedin.com