Broadway BUZZ

Tichina Arnold was born to entertain in every form of creativity from acting to singing to dancing to writing, and her career shows her extraordinary love and commitment to her love of making people feel happy. From comedies to drama and on the big screen to your home television set, Tichina’s characters are beloved around the world and well known for their honest reactions to life’s all-too-real situations. Her roles in Martin, Wild Hogs, Happily Divorced, Survivors Remorse, Daytime Divas, and Everybody Hates Chris have cemented her a devoted fan-base that reaches throughout the world. Tichina recently wrapped up an 8-season run on CBS’s hit comedy, The Neighborhood, opposite Cedric The Entertainer, Beth Behrs, and Max Greenfield. Tichina also worked behind the camera, directing Episode 12 of the 8th season. On the feature side, Tichina can be seen in A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, directed by Joe Talbot and starring Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, and Mike Epps. In 2022, Tichina directed the Short Film Oh Baby Baby for BET in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Tichina also starred in the BET+ Film, So Fly Christmas directed by Terri J. Vaughn. Tichina has also served as a host multiple times for the BET’s Soul Train Awards alongside Tisha Campbell, celebrating the best in Soul, R&B and Hip Hop. On stage, Arnold starred in Alex in Wonderland, written and directed by Debbie Allen; a revival of The Wiz at New York City Center in New York; the off-Broadway hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and the musical hit If These Hips Could Talk. Early theater credits include The Me Nobody Knows at Brooklyn’s Billie Holiday Theatre, Hair, Romance and Hard Times and Haggadah at the Joseph Papp Theatre.