Kemiyondo Coutinho

Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright and Acting Teacher

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
September 2015

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About Kemiyondo

"If you're going to depend on someone outside of you to write for you, you're going be waiting a long time...We have to write about what we know." Denzel Washington

An actress who started writing at 17 when she couldn't find the African woman's voice in the scripts I was reading. I started interviewing Swazi women and wrote a one-woman show Jabulile! which went to tour internationally. I then wrote a second one-woman show Kawuna...you're it! that was chosen to be performed at the National Arts Festival in South Africa as well as at the Gates Foundation World Aids Day event.

Now a screenwriter I continue to write for the African Woman I never found in my plays and on my television. Keeping in line with the nature of all my work, I hope to vocalize silenced voices one screenplay at a time. In everything I do, I aim to bring a fresh unique perspective that my multicultural background has allowed me to provide.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 6"

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Other

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GREEN Comedy When Karen's acting dreams are deferred by American Border Control, she quickly says "I Do" but just as quickly discovers that it's going to take a village to convince America of a shotgun GREEN card marriage. Follow the journey of an aspiring Ugandan actress to her own American Dream.