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Ashanti Brown

Acting professor

Education

  • M.F.A., acting, New York University
  • B.A., theatre, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Credentials

  • Professor of performing arts, 2021–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Organizations

  • SAG/AFTRA

Publications and presentations

Television

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Nona Franklin, 2022
  • FBI, heavy woman, 2018
  • Orange Is the New Black, kickball player #2, 2018
  • The Runaways, Marvel/Hulu
  • Code Black, Jody, 2015
  • Hart of Dixie, Kayla, 2015
  • Rizzoli & Isles, Diane, 2014
  • Perception, Valerie Blair, 2013
  • Key and Peele, girl (uncredited), 2012
  • Body of Proof, Delia, 2012
  • Community, Sharice, 2010
  • NCIS: Los Angeles, Marine Lance Corporal Shelly Hastings, 2010

Film

  • Unchaste, neighbor, 2019
  • Take the 10, Gale, Netflix, 2017
  • Minnesota, Vanessa, 2015
  • The Forgotten Man, woman, 2014
  • The Occupants, young mother, 2014
  • B-Side, woman in bar #2, 2013
  • Morning Interior, Ashanti, 2010
  • Those People, woman on the street, 2010
  • Mama’s Heart, Christina, 2009

Theater

  • Year of the Rabbit, Kara, Ensemble Studio Theatre
  • NBC Diversity Showcase
  • Heavier Than, Fate 1, The Theatre at Boston Court
  • Dracula, Mina, Actors Theatre of Louisville
  • Hamlet, Gertrude, NYU Grad
  • Mud, River, Stone, Sarah Bradley, NYU Grad
  • Hell On Me, writer, Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival