KUBBI HAS CANDID HONESTY WITH EARTHLY FIRE
MERGED WITH A SOULFUL SOPHISTICATED CHARM!!
"Though she be little, she is fierce"
KUBBI HAS CANDID HONESTY WITH EARTHLY FIRE
MERGED WITH A SOULFUL SOPHISTICATED CHARM!!
"Though she be little, she is fierce"
About Kubbi
All Things Work Together for the Good
KUBBI, has been hired to be one of the Supremes in the Lady Supreme Tour, where she is also dancing in the 70s song Love Hangover, she will be touring several cities, GA, TN, VA, SC, NJ & NY. She completed a PSA commercial to be aired later this year. This director, Kubbi recently closed the Sillver Linings Festival short Play The Pledge with a successful 6 shows at the New Perspectives Theatre Company. Kubbi directed the staged reading of Baldwin's Ni$$er by Reginald Jackson, where the reading received a standing ovation. Kubbi performed the Monologue from The Mountain Top at the Kraine Theatre April 2023 and also performed March 23-26 at the Producers Club in a short play called "Chekov's Gun". Last year Kubbi was Miss Mary Sunshine in the Original "Chicago" play with Out of the Box Theatre. She also directed "Why does the Onion Make Us Cry, at the Producers Club Oct 2, 2022. Played Vee in Tennessee Williams' Play Orpheus Descending an equity show at Theatre on Main Street, a new professional theatre company in the Hudson Valley; Aug. 19 -28 2022. Directed "Just Before Sunrise" in the End Game Festival at New Perspectives Theatre Aug 8-14, 2022. In the summer of 2021, she completed the director's program at Yale University as well as became certified in Contemporary Drama at RADA in London in 2019. Kubbi directed the TADA's winter show Wide-awake Jake which opened to full houses in March 2022. Kubbi is the oldest of 5. She has a fraternal twin, identical twin brothers, and a younger brother. She started singing at the age of 5, where her mom formed a singing group with her and her siblings. They sang for local church programs, then later became one of the lead singers in her church choir. Kubbi’s mother who is a children’s author started grooming Kubbi for solo performances and volunteered her for many programs around NYC. Kubbi went on her first musical audition at the age of 8 for Carousel. She took gymnastics and ballet and started vocals lessons with the famed Opera singer Joyce Mathis at the age of 12. However, her acting career began at 15 with the Off-Broadway, New York’s Famed Children’s Theater Company TADA where she was a member for 3 years, her 1st television appearance was “Live with Bill Boggs” channel 5 NYC. At the age of 16, Kubbi won the Most Talented Teen in N.Y.S. in the MISST.E.E.N. Pageant, she was also the 2nd place winner at the Apollo Amateur Night. Her mom also signed her up to be a guest speaker at Riverside Church discussing the impact society has on teenage girls. Kubbi graduated High School with honors and was awarded a scholarship to Clark Atlanta University after a board member saw her perform for the Black College Luncheon at the World Trade Center. While attending the University she continued to perform in school functions, talent shows, pageants, and home-comings. After receiving her BA, she started free-lancing with several talent agencies in SC, TN, GA, IN, FL, and NYC. Booked her 1st print-ad and was the first African American Woman member of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s 1st Apprenticeship with the Shakespeare Tavern. Over the years Kubbi has performed in top venues while on tour with musical theater companies such as Sail Productions in NJ, the Academy Theater in Atlanta, and NY Artists Unlimited. She has performed at the Grand Ole Opry, The Hippodrome, The Public Theatre (NYC), as well as Caroline’s On Broadway. In 2004, Kubbi moved back to NYC, booked her 1 st Union Film in 2006, and became a member of the Screen Actors Guild. (SAG-AFTRA) and continued pursuing her acting career. She joined AEA (Actors Equity) in 2009 and also became a member of the Negro Ensemble Theatre. Kubbi became an official print model after booking her 2nd print ad after one of her agents submitted her for a Fidelis ad. She was chosen without an audition. That Billboard ran for 3 years and appeared all over Upstate, NYC, and Long Island. Since then she has had three NYS-wide Billboards and one Philadelphia tourism billboard that showed in NY Penn Station and Philadelphia Airport in June 2016. Kubbi continued doing theatre and has performed in over 80 plays. Her career opened up and she has now done over 5 regional commercials, one of them won a best in show award for Colon Cancer Awareness by The Albany Ad Club for 2017 (Besty award) Best in Show. Kubbi had her directorial debut with the Children’s program at the Theatre for the New City in 2009. Then she was chosen as one of the directors for the Allstars Summer Youth Program She directed Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” and August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running.” Kubbi has shared the stage with famous actors like Gregory Hines, Ricky Lake, Victoria Platt (NCIS LA), Terrell Carter (Empire), Ann McCrary, Regina McCrary, Nana Mensah (13 Reasons Why & The Ambassador (Netflix) and Alysia Joy Powell (The Black Messiah)
