Angela Counts

Angela Counts is a screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker, and performance artist. She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award for the dramatic comedy, HEDY UNDERSTANDS ANXIETY, and is an affiliated faculty member with Emerson College, Boston, in the Visual and Media Arts Department (courses: Television Writing, Writing the Short Subject, Writing the Feature & Feature Writing Workshop). She is a published author with Dramatic Publishing Company: HEDY UNDERSTANDS ANXIETY AND SCENES AND MONOLOGUES FOR MATURE ACTORS (anthology). 

Wild Wimmin Films has produced several of her screenplays, including the comedy shorts, ACRYLICS DON’T SMELL, OCEAN WAVES, and THE APPOINTMENT (co-writer). She has co-produced with director Cristina Kotz Cornejo the short film, ERNESTO, and feature film, 3 AMERICAS. She has served as editorial, production and story consultant on several projects, including the full-length documentary in post- production, Psalm of Howard Thurman (dir. Arleigh Prelow) and a VR/XR Project in development (dir. Cristina Kotz Cornejo). 

Angela was a featured guest artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2017, where she presented her art and influences for artist Lee Mingwei's Living Room Project. In 2020, she premiered her new work- in-progress, the performance piece, LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK to Black Lives Matter for the arts festival, Area Code Art Fair. Her films and videos have screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Medicine Wheel Productions; in group exhibitions at Harvard University's Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art and Lesley University’s VanDernoot Gallery (curator, Dell M. Hamilton); as well as, Kayafas Gallery in SOWA, Boston (curators, Silvi Naci and Jeannie Simms) and School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University (curator, Randi Hopkins).

Angela is a graduate of University of Southern California (BA/MFA), Tufts University (Post-baccalaureate, Fine Arts) and Northeastern University (MFA), in conjunction with SMFA at Tufts University. She has taught at Suffolk University and Emerson College and has served as a guest artist and lecturer at University of Southern California, Lesley and Northeastern universities, and SMFA at Tufts University.