N’Jameh Camara is a Broadway World and YALSA nominated actor whose performance credits include: the New York Times Critics Pick productions of Macbeth and X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation Off-Broadway, Broadway National Tour of The Color Purple in the principal role of Nettie, World Premier of Up Here at La Jolla Playhouse, Post-Broadway run of JUNK at Milwaukee Rep, and was the recipient of the 2025 Ruth Schudson Leading Lady Award at Milwaukee Chamber Theater for which she most recently performed An Iliad, Clyde’s, and The Mountaintop.
Her voice can be heard on Audible and internationally, narrating books for young audiences with Penguin Random House and Harper Collins Publishing. Her narration works include but is not limited to: Children of the Stone City; Knot Again; The Fastest Way to Fall; When Life Gives You Mangos; A Universe of Wishes; The Long Ride; Gravity; Fumbled; Harbor Me, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices; A Peoples’ Future of the United States; and You Bring the Distant Near.
She is also the Founder of the Pandemic Pregnancy Project (PPP), a national collection of interviews turned into monologues of people who experienced birth and pregnancy during the pandemic. PPP is now published and archived with the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.
N’Jameh received her MFA from the University of California- San Diego and taught acting at UW-Madison and UC-San Diego with various workshops at Loyola University- New Orleans, SUNY Oswego, Northern Arizona University, and University of Central Missouri. She even pursued early childhood education at her children’s Montessori school.