"I choose to be a resident of the realm of possibilities."
Anyika McMillan-Herod is an author, essayist, playwright, and poet. A Dallas native, Herod is an alum of Booker T. Washington High School (’89), holds a BFA in Theater from Prairie View A&M University (’93) and studied acting in California Institute of the Arts’ MFA program. She is co-founder of Soul Rep Theatre Company and former editor of The Dallas Examiner.
As a playwright, Herod was recently commissioned to write a play - DO NO HARM - inspired by three enslaved women who served as "guinea pigs" for Dr. Marion Sims who is known as "the Father of Gynecology." DO NO HARM will make its world premiere in the fall of 2020. Herod’s play about the journey through breast cancer, THE MONARCH, made its world premiere in June 2018, in a co-production with Echo Theater Company. She adapted two Latin American short stories by Juan Rulfo and Alfredo Cardona Peña for Teatro Dallas’ 2017 Day of the Dead production –AN EVENING WITH TWO GIANTS. Additionally, Anyika debuted three new short plays in 2017, two in Soul Rep’s SOUTHSIDE STORIES FESTIVAL and the other, MIGRATION, in House Party Theater’s DAMNSELS! Play Festival.
Anyika is a 2019 Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.
She conducts writing workshops and seminars for youth and adults in creative writing, playwriting, and journaling as a positive tool of expression. Contact her for questions regarding production rights to her plays, speaking engagements, and seminars or workshops.