LAMPLEY, Oni Faida 1959(?)–
(Oni F. Lampley)

PERSONAL

Born c. 1959; married; children: sons. Education: Graduate of Oberlin College and New York University; studied playwriting at the Juilliard School; attended Sundance Screenwriters Lab, 1998.

Career: Actress and writer. Acting Company, member; Drama Dept., founding member; InterAct Theatre Company, member of national honorary committee; affiliated with the New York Theatre Workshop. Appeared in commercials.

Awards, Honors: Charles MacArthur Award, Helen Hayes Awards, Washington Theatre Awards Society, outstanding new play, 1991, for Mixed Babies; Charles MacArthur Award nomination, outstanding new play, 1999, and Charlotte Cushman Award nomination, Barrymore Awards, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, outstanding leading actress in a play, 2001, both for The Dark Kalamazoo; LeComte du Nouy Award, Lincoln Center; grants from William and Eva Fox Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, and District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Bootsie, Mattie, and Thomas, Mule Bone, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1991.

Man, Woman, Dinosaur, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1992.

Nurse Hanniman, The Destiny of Me, Circle Repertory Company, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1992–1993.

Racael Tate, Zooman and the Sign, Second Stage Theatre, McGinn–Cazale Theatre, New York City, 1994–1995.

Ama Cyllah, Mud, River, Stone, Playwrights' Horizons, Wilder Theatre, 1997.

Nurse Logan, The Ride down Mt. Morgan, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1998, then Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 2000.

Biblical Pieces (opera), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1999.

The Dark Kalamazoo (solo show), Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC, 1999, later Drama Dept., Greenwich House Theatre, New York City, 2001 and 2002.

Appeared in Two Trains Running, Broadway production; also appeared in All's Well That Ends Well and The Misanthrope.

Major Tours:

The Dark Kalamazoo (solo show), U.S. cities, 1999–2001.

Film Appearances:

Young mother with child, Strictly Business, Warner Bros., 1991.

Dispatcher, Money Train, Columbia, 1995.

(As Oni F. Lampley) Mrs. Grant, The Keeper, Rada Film, 1995.

Attractive woman, Bullet, New Line Cinema, 1996.

Celie, Lone Star, Sony Pictures Classics, 1996.

Baroness, The Misadventures of Margaret (also known as Les folies de Margaret ), Shaw Brothers, 1998.

Madeleine, Jungle 2 Jungle (also known as Un indien a New York ), Buena Vista, 1998.

Waitress, Advice from a Caterpillar, Keystone Entertainment, 1999.

Private duty nurse, Dragonfly (also known as Im Zeichen der Libelle ), Universal, 2002.

Television Appearances; Series:

Janelle West, In Our Lives, CBS, beginning 1980.

Hallie Mitchell, One Life to Live, ABC, 1994.

Prentice Little, One Life to Live, ABC, 1997.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Dr. Georgette Taylor, A Will of Their Own, NBC, 1998.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Marsha (some sources cite Marisha) Williams, ... First Do No Harm, ABC, 1997.

Nurse Bascam, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Starz!, 1999.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Larry Kramer, PBS, 1993.

The Green Room, Bravo, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Barbara Kennedy, "Profile," Law & Order, NBC, 1993.

Dollie Withers, "Gone for Goode," Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as Homicide and H: LOTS ), NBC, 1993.

Third reporter, "Brown Appetit," NYPD Blue, ABC, 1993.

Third reporter, "4B or Not 4B," NYPD Blue, ABC, 1993.

Sharlene Patterson, "Custody," Law & Order, NBC, 1996.

Reverend Truman, "Unnatural Disasters," Oz, HBO, 1999.

Cynthia Weller, "Big Girls Don't Cry," The Sopranos, HBO, 2000.

Reverend Truman, "The Bill of Wrongs," Oz, HBO, 2000.

Ryan, "Faith," Third Watch, NBC, 2000.

"A Hero's Rest," Third Watch, NBC, 2001.

United Nations official, "Phantom," Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC, 2002.

Janet Thomas, "Suicide Box," Law & Order, NBC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Alyson Wardlaw, Philly Heat, ABC, 1995.

WRITINGS

Plays:

Mixed Babies, Washington Stage Guild, Washington, DC, 1991, then Manhattan Class Company Theatre, New York City, published by Dramatists Play Services.

Class 1 Acts: '91–'92, Manhattan Class Company Theatre, New York City, 1992.

The Dark Kalamazoo (solo show), Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC, 1999, produced on tour of U.S. cities, 1999–2001, later Drama Dept., Greenwich House Theatre, New York City, 2001–2001 and 2002, published in The Fire This Time, Theatre Communications Group.

Also wrote other plays and screenplays.

Essays:

"The Wig and I," Mirabella, 1993.

Contributor to other periodicals, including Elle.