Broadway BUZZ

Stephanie Berry is the recipient of the 2026 OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement in Performance. Recent credits include the West Coast premiere of Purpose at La Jolla Playhouse; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Indiana Repertory Theatre/Syracuse Stage; Oedipus in The Gospel at Colonus at Little Island; Gem of the Ocean at Two River Theater; Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons; and Olivia in Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Malvolio. She received a 2023 OBIE Award for Performance for On Sugarland at New York Theatre Workshop and an OBIE Award for her solo work, The Shaneequa Chronicles: The Making of a Black Woman. Selected film/TV credits include Fantasy Island, O.G., The Last O.G., Bull, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Finding Forester and the Law & Order franchise. Berry is also the recipient of New Professional Theatre’s 2022 Award for Activism and the League of Professional Theatre Women’s 2021 Lee Reynolds Award. She is a founding member of the COPP Project, an intervention initiative bringing youth and police together through theater and dialogue. Her play Forever Free, inspired by the life of Civil Rights icon Claudette Colvin, will premiere later this year.