Fatima Quander
AEA/SAG-AFTRA

Fatima Quander is an accomplished professional actor and proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). She has performed with FRESHH Inc. Theatre Company, DC Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Rep Stage, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage Education, Theater of the First Amendment, the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Discovery Theater; she has also performed in house and on tour with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Additionally, she has appeared in a number of national and regional commercials including Toyota, Under Armour and Dick’s Sporting Goods, DC Health Link, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Navy Federal Credit Union (among others).

 

Fatima is a Lecturer at the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies and served as a Senior Adjunct Instructor at Howard Community College (teaching Acting and Public Speaking) for 8 years. She also teaches at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is a company member with Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT). Furthermore, she serves as a teaching artist with a number of schools and programs throughout the Washington, DC area including FRESHH Inc.’s Griot Girls, Everyman Theatre, Poetry Out Loud, Folger Shakespeare Library’s McKee Fellows Program and Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, Sitar Arts Center, Jr. Discovery at Georgetown University, and YPT.

 

A native Washingtonian, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Actors Studio Drama School in NYC and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.