Erica Bradshaw is a professional Actor and emerging Playwright. She began her professional acting career in the world-premiere Off-Broadway production of Arthur Millers’, Mr. Peters Connections, starring Peter Falk, at Signature Theatre, NYC. She worked in various New York theatres until departing for Los Angeles in 1999 where she was a founding member of, ‘Bitches Funny’, an all female sketch comedy group opening for such acts as Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Griffin at The Comedy Store and Masquers Cabaret. While in Los Angeles Erica performed in several productions including, Antigone. Tertiary. Sexxx (2001 LA Weekly Award Nominee Best Comedy Direction) and The Exonerated, (Nominated for five Ovation awards 2002).
In Los Angeles, Erica made her network television debut on CBS, The District. In 2002, Erica headed east, landing in Louisville, Kentucky as the Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. While at ATL, she worked as Producer of the 10 Minute Play Festivals (2002-03/2003-04). She directed the following world-premieres; Roaring Blood by Catherine Trieschmann, 2B
(Or Not 2B) by Jacquelyn Reingold, Bliss by Brooke Berman, Salesgirl by Steven Levi, Afterlife by Steven Salzman and Roomful of Lovely by Cusi Cram. She also directed Buses by Denise Nicholas, at the University of Kentucky. In Kentucky she honed her teaching artistry by working with the Kentucky Board of Education and receiving a grant from the Kentucky Center of the Arts for her workshop; Ideas, Thoughts, Words – ACTIONS! (A theatre building workshop).
In recent years Erica has performed at many Regional theatres, including; As You Like It, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Romeo and Juliet, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Syringa Tree, Delaware Theatre Company (2006 Barrymore nomination for best actress), The Good Body(3 person world-premiere) & The Vagina Monologues, City Theatre, Pittsburgh, and The Good Body, Hartford Stage Company. Moving to New York in 2005, Erica immediately landed a Court Clerk role on Law and Order: SVU, it was slated to be a one day day-player role and has parlayed into a five year recurring role on the hit television series. In 2009, Erica worked on ‘The Good Wife’, with Julianna Marguiles. So far in 2010 Erica has a Tribeca Film festival commercial and an LG commercial running. Also, Erica debuted her solo show, ‘White America Hero’ (formerly known as Straight Black Box 22W) and most recently she played Larenz Tate’s sister – LaQueefa, on the F/X show ‘Rescue Me’ starring Dennis Leary.
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