NAOMI LORRAIN is a Harlem based actor/playwright. Her work often explores the intricacies of humanity via the lens of humor and nostalgia. Naomi’s plays have been developed/produced by 2nd Stage, South Coast Rep, Uptown Collective, The Fire This Time Festival, Vanguard Theater’s Illuminating New Voices Festival, The Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival, The Continuum Company, HomeBase Theatre Collective and The 52nd Street Kids Project. Her play, DUCK HUNT is currently being developed by Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire and was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neil. Her play, how to roll a blunt was a finalist for the National Playwrights Conference. Her screenplay, My Better Half was a 2021 2nd Rounder for Comedy Feature Screenplay at the Austin Film Festival as well as a quarterfinalist for the WeScreenplay: Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab. Naomi was a Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase Staff Writer, an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group and is a proud member of The Make Good Project.

Some acting credits: BROADWAY: EUREKA DAY (MTC); JORDANS (The Public Theater), DAPHNE (Lincoln Center Theater), THE IMAGINARY INVALID (Molière in the Park), LA RACE (Page 73/WP), MARK IT DOWN (Williamstown Theatre Festival), BEHIND THE SHEET (Ensemble Studio Theatre, AUDELCO Awards Lead Actress nomination) and WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN (The Movement Theatre Company). TV: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix), ELEMENTARY (CBS), MADAM SECRETARY (CBS) and THE GOOD FIGHT (CBS). She holds a B.A. in both African American Studies and the History of Science, History of Medicine from Yale and an M.F.A. in Graduate Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Also, Naomi moonlights as a Research Assistant at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.