Angela Elayne Gibbs

Angela Gibbs is an actor, producer, writer and director who has spent over three decades in entertainment, and she is from Detroit, Michigan. Her stage production of the play 227 came to Norman Lear's attention and was developed into an NBC series. She earned two NAACP Image Awards for her theater work, which included The Meeting and Checkmates. On television she appeared in Black Jesus, had a recurring part on The Fosters, and led the web series Girls United. As an acting coach she worked with director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Birdman and The Revenant. She directed the comedy short titled Rise and Fall of John Tesoro, and her 2006 short Ties That Bind, praised by the LA Times, won HBO's best short award at Martha's Vineyard and a jury prize at the Pan African Film Festival. In 1998 she also directed a documentary, Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win, in Ghana.