Playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker,
and performance artist
Educator, former Admissions Officer at Major U.S. universities.
Angela Counts is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award for the dramatic comedy, Hedy Understands Anxiety, published by Dramatic Publishing.
She is a former director of admissions at Harvard University and has taught screenwriting and theater for University of Arizona, Emerson College, Suffolk University, and Sundance Collab (advisor/co-teacher).
Angela’s plays, films, videos, and performances have been presented across the U.S. and she has received play commissions from New York Theater Workshop, New York, NY and On with Living and Learning, Cambridge, MA.
The Living Room Project, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
She has written and co-produced original short screenplays, produced by Wild Wimmin Productions that have screened in the U.S. and internationally, and spec screenplays, including Hedy Understands Anxiety (feature screenplay) Emerging Narrative Selection, Independent Feature Film Market, New York, NY.
She co-produced the feature film, 3 Americas, written and directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo. More recently, she served as story consultant on several projects,
including the spec T.V. pilot, 21 Meals by Jaideep Punjabi, Magic
in the Desert, a VR/XR Project in development (dir. Cristina Kotz Cornejo), and
the full-length documentary, Psalm of Howard Thurman (dir. Arleigh Prelow).
Breakfast with Abu (2017)
Hijab, Red Sea (2017)
Flower Child (2014)
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Her other works include her performance of "Looking for Lorraine: To Be Young, Gifted and Black to Black Lives Matter," which streamed live in 2020 as part of Area Code Art Fair (curator: Gabriel Sosa) and “My Muslim Daughter,” presented in the group exhibition, Stand Up! at Gallery Kayafas, SOWA Boston (Curators: Silvi Naci and Jeannie Sims).
Dramatic Publishing Company is publisher of her Hansberry award-wining play, Hedy Understands Anxiety, and an excerpt from her play To Thine Self is collected in the the anthology, Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actors, edited by By Ann McDonough and Kent R. Brown.
Angela holds an M.F.A in Playwriting from U.S.C., an M.F.A. in Filmmaking and Performance from Northeastern (in a joint program with the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University), and a B.A. in Communications from U.S.C.
Poster from the event - Dead Man Walking: An Afternoon Encounter with Capital Punishment in America, Harvard University
Reading from Dead Man Walking, Written by Tim Robbins, Directed by Angela Counts
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