Nana Mensah has earned a second nomination for her ‘Man From Nebraska‘ role.
Mensah was nominated in the ‘Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play‘ category by the Outer Critics Circle, an organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway.
‘Man From Nebraska’ is a play about a man’s loss of faith and his journey to regain it by American playwright Tracy Letts.
The awards scheme honours excellence in the field of theatre. Winners will be announced on Monday, May 8, 2017.
The 67th edition of the event will be held on Thursday, May 27 at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant, New York City, United States of America.
Read about her first nomination here
She wrote, directed and stars in the forthcoming film Queen of Glory and also plays the role of Sade in the popular series, An African City (2015 Golden Movie Award Winner, 2016 AMVCA Nominee). She starred as ‘Clare’ in the smash hit 2016 OBIE Award-winning play, I’ll Never Love Again (a chamber piece) by Clare Barron (pictured below).
Nana is a principal at Cape Coast Media, the production company behind a forthcoming docuseries from South African network, KweséTV. She is also a co-founding partner of Adelos Media, a Manhattan-based production company that has yielded commercials and a feature film. As a public speaker, she has given a TEDxBrooklyn talk and participated in a Facebook Inc. panel in Johannesburg about digital content creation in Africa.
She’s a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York’s Lower East Side with the novelist, Karim Dimechkie, and their pit bull, Pavlov.
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