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Fedna Jacquet
LOVELIE

FEDNA JACQUET (Lovelie) Full-time actor/writer/director Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She recently starred as Passenger 1 in the Tony nominated Ain’t No Mo on Broadway. She is a 2023/2024 Primary Stages fellow (DSNAWG), a CRNY Artist, and the 2020-2024 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence. Fedna was a 2021-2022 Inaugural Still I Rise Documentary Fellow, a 2019-2022 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Written work for the screen includes Isaiah (ABFF/TVOne Screenplay Competition Finalist, Homebase (Juilliard/NYU Showcase)), Inheritance (Tribeca/Chanel Through Her Lens Finalist, 2021 Urbanworld Film Festival), Circus (2020 HollyShorts Quarterfinalist) and Going Home. She has written two pilots: Model Minority (a half hour dramedy centered around an Asian American male lead) and Pefeksyon (a half hour comedy centered around a Haitian American family). Written plays include Black Mother Lost Daughter (Commissioned by National Black Theatre, Breaking Ground Festival, O’Neill Finalist), Pefeksyon (Playwright’s Realm Finalist, DVRF Finalist, Studio Tisch), Inheritance (Classical Theatre of Harlem Playwright's Playground, Studio Tisch), Civic Duty (Commissioned by Suny Purchase), Girlfriend (The Fire This Time Festival, O’Neill Semifinalist) and Heroes (Developed as a Huntington Fellow). Fedna is currently recurring on FBI: Most Wanted (CBS). BA: Brown University MFA: NYU/Tisch Grad Acting. Her short film Chante Maman Mwen (My Mother’s Song) premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival and screened at HBO sponsored Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City. Her short film Murika premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival.