THE AUTHOR

Dr. Martha Velez-Reid, PhD – Songstress/Psychologist, Actor, Teaching Artist/Spoken Memoir – Winner of the Los Angeles Award for Playwriting and Acting, for her play Power of the Powerless/American Heartbeat. Broadway: Lead in HAIR. Off-Broadway: Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, Shadowbox. TV: E.R., L.A. Law, aka Pablo, Falcon Crest. Films: Star Maps, Safe (Julianne Moore), Fatherhood (Halle Berry/Patrick Swayze), 187 (Samuel L. Jackson). Sire/Warner Bros. Recordings w/Eric Clapton (Fiends and Angels), Bob Marley/Wailers (Escape From Babylon) PhD in Depth Psychology, M.A. in Clinical Psychology. Harvard Teaching Certification. Member: AEA, SAG, Dramatist Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women and more.