N’Jameh Camara is an actor whose performance credits include working with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Ayad Ahktar on the post-Broadway run of Junk and McNeal, the National Broadway Tour of The Color Purple, the New York Times Critics Pick Off-Broadway productions of Macbeth, X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation, and Julius Caesar. Credits also include working with Alex Timbers and the creators of Frozen on the World Premier of Up Here at La Jolla Playhouse. N’Jameh 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 internationally, narrating books for Penguin Random House and Harper Collins Publishing. She has won the School Library Journal’s Best Book in Audio award, and has been nominated for the Audie Award for Best Young Adult Narration and three times nominated for the YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults award. Her narration includes 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.
Her theater and community work can be found at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center where her works on the Pandemic Pregnancy Project (PPP), a national collection of interviews turned into monologues of people who experienced birth and pregnancy during the pandemic, are archived. Her community work extends into collaborations with the National Endowment for the Arts, Wisconsin Public Radio, 88.9 Radio Milwaukee, the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, Milwaukee Rep where she was the former Director of Programs in their Education and Community Engagement Department, and with the Wisconsin Humanities Council where she was appointed by Governor Evers to serve on the Board.
N’Jameh received her Master of Fine Art from the University of California- San Diego and her Bachelor of Art from Loyola University-Chicago.