About Camella

Camella was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles where she developed a love of theater doing holiday plays at her childhood church.

Her first role in a play was “sheep”.

Camella went on to college and although started as a Biology major, found herself falling in love again with theater, participating in the African American Theater Arts Troupe(AATAT) and Rainbow Theater at UC Santa Cruz. After graduating, she moved on to work in nonprofit capacities while volunteering her time at after school programs where she was able to co-write her first play “Stop Bullying for Once” with the students of The Village Project in Seaside, CA. She then moved around the bay area working on shows with young people while building a non-profit portfolio by day and introducing a new generation to stage plays by night.

She then moved to Seattle to get her masters in Education where she conducted research, reported, and wrote a play to teach teachers how to integrate theater into the Common Core Standards using middle school English Language Arts Standards, which at the time, Common Core hadn’t created any for the liberal arts. While working full time, going to school full time, she developed a space for stage management working with poetry shows during the summer and the Seattle Shakespeare Company. She met her partner they worked together with another teacher who created and opened a second location of the credit retrieval program where she supported having students graduate high school. Not only did Camella work in stage management, but she also was able to work on a few films, including Kiana Harris’ AJE IJO SERIES: RIVERS OF NINE.

Upon moving back to Los Angeles, Camella worked as an ASM for Sophina Brown’s Two Trains Running by August Wilson and stage manager for Ammunition Theater Company’s original play Brain Problems written by Malcolm Barrett. She also worked with UCLA’s Albert School of Music as a Stage Manager for their orchestras, concerts, and student performances.

Post COVID-19 lockdown, Camella has worked with Center Theatre Group, Anteaus Theatre Company , and The Wallis Annenburg on shows. She also is the co-founder of Black Stage Everything, a networking platform that supports the communal growth of Black Theatremakers, advocates employment access.