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Name
  
Trey Anthony

Role
  
Comedian


TV shows
  
Da Kink in My Hair

Plays
  
Da Kink in My Hair

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Nominations
  
Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

Similar People
  
Ngozi Paul, Eli Goree, d'bi Young, Daniel J Gordon, Kenny Robinson

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Trey Anthony (born 1974) is an award-winning playwright, actor and producer, best known for her award winning play and television series Da Kink in My Hair.

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Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Anthony arrived in Canada at 12 years old with her mother. They lived in the working class city of Rexdale before moving to the suburbs of Brampton. She is a regular on the Canadian comedy circuit. She began doing stand-up comedy during African Nubian Comedy Nights where she honed her comedic wit and timing.

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She has performed as well at The Second City, the Urban Womyn's Comedy Festival and Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.

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She was also a writer and performer for Kenny Robinson's sketch comedy show After Hours with Kenny Robinson and a writer for The Chris Rock Show.

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Her first theatrical play, Da Kink in My Hair, debuted in 2001 at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Anthony began to self identify as a queer feminist in 2007. In 2005, it was adapted into a television movie by Vision TV, with a cast that included Anthony, Mimi Kuzyk and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Da Kink in My Hair went on to a US premiere at the San Diego Repertory Theatre with a cast including D'bi Young, Amina Alfred, Abena Malika and Karen Robinson.

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A television series version of Da Kink in My Hair began airing in 2007 and Anthony was a cast member before the show was cancelled in 2009.

In 2017, her play How Black Mothers Say I Love You will debut at the Maja Prentice Theatre, Mississauga.

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Awards

  • Eve Ensler Vagina Warrior Award 2005
  • NAACP Theatre Award 2007
  • Gemini Award 2008
  • Harry Jerome Award 2009
  • Egale Canada – Queering Black History Award 2009
  • References

    Trey Anthony Wikipedia