Flo Ankah Explained

Flo Ankah
Birth Place:Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
Citizenship:France and United States

Flo Ankah is a French and naturalized American actress,[1] director, and singer residing in New York City. She founded Simple Production in 2006.

Career

Vocalist

Known in the nightclub scene performing with jazz improvisers, she is the bandleader of the Third Set Collective.[2]

Flo stars in the Broadway-style musical Loving the Silent Tears, directed by Vincent Paterson, at the Shrine Auditorium.[3] Her solo show Edith Piaf Alive premiered at Joe's Pub in the Public Theater; other sold out performances include Feinstein's/54 Below and Symphony Space; appearances include the Museum of Modern Art, Bryant Park and the New York Botanical Garden. Her interpretation of "Michelle" was included in The Beatles Complete on Ukulele.[4]

Actress

Flo Ankah has appeared in film (Listen Up Philip, Then She Found Me) and television (One Life to Live). Featured as a voice artist in feature films (Stillwater, Magic in the Moonlight, My Old Lady, The Limits of Control), numerous television commercials, and is the voice for the French version of Vice News Tonight. Performed for artists such as Mina Nishimura,[5] [6] and Meredith Monk (at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).[7] Alumna of the Atlantic Acting School, and member of the Academy of Television Arts and Science since 2017.

Writer-Director

One Way and Waterfront Access? are Flo Ankah's award-winning films. She showed her choreography at Movement Research at the Judson Church, HERE Arts Center, and Dixon Place. Flo Ankah is an Alumna of the Kennedy Center Playwriting intensive.

Works

Film Acting

Playwriting

Solo Performance

Art House Film

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: French Actress Official website.
  2. Web site: Third Set – Music Collective.
  3. Web site: Starring in musical Loving the Silent Tears. 15 September 2012 .
  4. Web site: Michelle on The Beatles Complete on ukulele. 22 June 2010 .
  5. Web site: Timmy's Idea in Time Out NY. Time Out NY . 2009-10-06.
  6. News: Timmy's Idea in the New York Times. New York Times . 2009-10-09 . Claudia . La Rocco . 2009-10-10.
  7. News: Ascension Variations in NYTimes. New York Times . 2009-03-06 . Gia . Kourlas . 2009-03-07.
  8. Web site: Athena Writes Fellow 2018.
  9. News: Interview for Edith Piaf Alive at Joe's Pub. New York Theater Review . 2013-03-21 . Tatiana . Collet-Apraxine . 2013-03-21.
  10. News: Remembering Paris Correctly. 'April in Paris' at Feinstein's/54 Below With Floanne. On Stage . 2016-05-04 . Thomas . Burns Scully . 2016-05-04.
  11. Web site: Guest contributor, Women Directors in Hollywood.