Jacqui Parker is an Elliot Norton Award Winning Actor and the four-time recipient of the Independent Reviewers of New England Award. She was also the proud recipient of the Boston Theatre Hero Award given by StageSource for 2004. Jacqui recently performed as the Player Queen in Commonwealth Shakespeare's Production of “Hamlet,” She was in “Ascension,” and “Spunk,” in the 2005 African American Theatre Festival. Other recent productions include: “Much Ado About Nothing,” understudy for both Phylicia Rashad and LisaGay Hamilton in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at the Huntington Theatre Company. Inez in the Speakeasy Company's production of “Our Lady of 121st Street.”  Lucy Parsons in “Haymarket” at Boston Playwright's Theatre; for which she was nominated for the Independent Reviewers of New England Award. The Huntington Theatre Company's production of “Breath Boom,” Vivian in “A Lesson Before Dying'.” and Dr. Bessie Delaney, in “Having Our Say,” produced by New Repertory Theatre Company, ACT Roxbury's “City Preacher.”  Wheelock Family Theatre's productions of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “Jungle Book,” and “The Tempest.” The Lyric Stage Company's production of “The Old Settler,” and A….My Name Will Always Be Alice. She completed her second featured film titled “Turntable,” by Robert Spruill, her first featured role in film “Lift,” is presently being shown on Showtime and BET.  Ms. Parker recently received critical praise for directing Jeff Stetson's “The Meeting,” in Harlem, New York and for the Lyric West Theatre Company in Wellesley Ma. Other directing favorites are “Sorry Don't Fix It,” and “Goin' to the Promise Land,” “Wine in the Wilderness,” “From African We Arose,” and “Can We Talk.” Jacqui is the Artistic Director of the Our Place Theatre Project and the founder of Boston's Annual African American Theatre Festival.  Ms. Parker's play “Dark As A Thousand Midnight's,” will makes its world premiere in the 2006 African American Theatre Festival as the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in January 2006.