FEDNA JACQUET

Fedna is a full-time actor/writer/director, born in Boston to Haitian parents. She recently starred as Passenger 1 in the Tony nominated Ain’t No Mo on Broadway. She is a 2020-2024 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, a 2021-2022 Inaugural Still I Rise Documentary Fellow, a 2019-2022 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Written plays include Black Mother Lost Daughter (Commissioned by National Black Theatre, Breaking Ground Festival, O’Neill Finalist), Girlfriend (The Fire This Time Festival, O’Neill Semifinalist), Pefeksyon (Playwright’s Realm Finalist, DVRF Finalist, Studio Tisch), Inheritance (Classical Theatre of Harlem Playwright’s Playground, Studio Tisch), Civic Duty (Commissioned by Suny Purchase), and Heroes (Developed as a Huntington Fellow). Fedna is currently recurring as an actor on “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS). She has appeared on “And Just Like That,” “The Equalizer,” “City On A Hill,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and many others. BA: Brown University, MFA: NYU Tisch.