Zakiya Young
- Musical Theatre
Zakiya Young is an accomplished actress, singer and playwright. She just finished a short run autobiographical solo play, Suburban Black Girl, at Outside In Theatre, where she seamlessly inhabits 25 different characters throughout the show. Zakiya wrote and developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival and the La Jolla Playhouse DNA New Works Festival. Favorite acting credits: TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (MAX), Diarra From Detroit (BET +), Iron Fist (Netflix) and Orange is the New Black (Netflix). Broadway: Stick Fly, The Little Mermaid and Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off Broadway: Storyville (Audelco Award nomination). Tours: Disgraced and Good People. Regional: Familiar, Spamilton, Aida, Little Miss Sunshine and It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman. Zakiya was the vocalist for LA Philharmonic’s Beverly Hills Songbook series and her BGVs can be heard in a variety of genres, including the OBC Recording of The Little Mermaid, Map of the Soul:7, by pop mega group BTS and songs by music icon Dolly Parton, Gabriella Valdes and Radmila Lolly. Her voice can also be heard as Sakhmet in Asgard’s Wrath 2, Ruby in Little Demon (FX), Lenora in Pokémon Masters (English dub), Final Fantasy VII Remake and numerous audiobooks. Zakiya has a lively and engaged following on YouTube as Suburban Black GirlÓ, where she delivers fresh, funny and raw takes on politics, social justice, current events, dating and religion. She holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at Stella Adler’s Art of Acting Studio, AMDA, The Broadway Collective and was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Musical Theatre Department at the USC School of Dramatic Arts and Hussian College. www.
