Nana Mensah

Nana Mensah is a Ghanaian American actor, writer and director who moved to New York City in 2009 to pursue acting after studying French and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her training came at the Shakespeare Lab and the Actors Center, and her first screen credits were short films before she took the role of Sade in the web series An African City in 2014, returning for a second season. On stage she appeared in Man from Nebraska in 2017, which earned her an Outer Critics Circle nomination, and she played Linda in Farewell Amor (2020). Queen of Glory (2021), which she wrote, directed and starred in, won her Best New Narrative Director at the Tribeca Film Festival and a Best First Feature nomination at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Her television work includes The Chair, The Diplomat and Bonding, and she wrote for Random Acts of Flyness as a staff writer.