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Rain Pryor, playwright, comedy writer, director, acting teacher, award winning actress, singer, and, two time award nominated author and full time wife and mother. With all these hats, how does she balance it all? Rain finds joy in creativity and get her inspiration from her family. "Fried Chicken and Latkes" is Pryor's award winning solo show based on her life. It is a irreverent and, poignant look at racism in the late 60’s early 70’s. Rain completely wrote, created, her show including adding some of her own original music and lyrics to the production. Rain was a Los Angeles Times "Critics Choice" and her singing voice and sense of timing were hailed as rare gifts. "Fried Chicken and Latkes" played to sold out crowds and standing ovations every night at the 375 seat Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA, and repeated that success at the Culture Project in New York, Chicago, Ohio, Virginia, Texas, and Scotland. Growing up Black and Jewish gives Rain a unique perspective on race, religion and spirituality. She shares her views and has lead panel discussions on diversity in education and in the entertainment industry at Princeton University, The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore. Currently Rain is working on An Evening with Mama ... And Yes, She Just Said That. The word on the street was that Mama based on Pryor's great grandmother who appeared in the award winning Fried Chicken and Latkes, needed to have her own show. Rain combines dirty blues music and irreverent commentary in this remarkable hour. "Pryor Experience", an edgy irreverent Jazz/ Blues Cabaret. A musical tour de force, with the musical direction of Keith Killgo (of the Black Birds fame) that recently headlined the world famous Hippodrome theater in Baltimore Maryland. Pryor has been performing as a Jazz/Blues vocalist since 1993,having played to sold out crowds in Los Angeles, DC, Hong Kong, Scotland and London. Her live cabaret received 4 stars and was critically acclaimed "...not to be missed." Pryor initially made her television debut in 1989 as a series regular, T.J., on the hit ABC series Head of the Class, a character adopted from Pryor’s own monologs at the request of ABC producers during her second audition. Pryor starred for several years opposite Sherilyn Fenn and Lynn Redgrave, as Jackie, the lipstick lesbian drug addict on the Showtime series Rude Awakening, and has additionally guest starred on network television series such as The Division and Chicago Hope. She has appeared numerous times on both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, as well as The Late Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Tavis Smiley. Rain’s stage credits include playing the title role of Billy Holiday in the UK tour of the Billie Holiday Story and the title role of Ella Fitzgerald in the UK premier of Ella, Meet Marilyn. Rain was teamed up with award winning UK Soap actress Sally Lyndsay. She’s performed in the Los Angeles production of Eve Ensler's, Vagina Monologues, with Nora Dunn of Saturday Night Live fame and Charlene Tilton, Cookin' With Gas, with the Groundlings improvisation troupe, The Exonerated with critically acclaimed actor Aidan Quinn, and, The Who's Tommy at the La Jolla Playhouse. You can catch Rain weekly, on www.davidfeldmancomedy.com where she writes a weekly commentary for the Emmy award winning writer David Feldman. Rain, now resides in Baltimore, MD and proudly shares her life with Yale and their daughter Lotus. Awards & Nominations 2010 Hadassah of Baltimore Honors Rain Pryor for her work in Stem Cell Research Advocacy. 2008 Marin Services For Women Founders Award (recipient)
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