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Best known as an actor, Rosalyn is the director of the award-winning short films Allergic To Nuts and Drawing Angel. Both films have been seen on several TV stations nationally and in film festivals in the US and around the world. Rosalyn was awarded "Emerging Filmmaker" at the Cine Noir Film Festival in the busy film production city of Wilmington, North Carolina. With over a dozen film directing credits, including The Last Piece, Twinkle, BFF, Moth To A Flame, and Driving Fish. Rosalyn is slated to direct the feature film "Pulpit Playaz". written by Titus Peoples and Yasha Jackson
Rosalyn is also prepped to direct the feature film "Unravel and Cut," written by Craig, with Viola Davis attached as Executive Producer.
A graduate of Howard University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Roz has a keen insight into the actor-director relationship. She is celebrated as an "actors director." She served as on-set acting coach for HBO's 2nd season of the hit series "In Treatment." Rosalyn was hired by the prestigious Cinereach Foundation to coach Sundance directors on their sophomore projects, most notably Terrance Nance, creator of HBO's Random Acts of Flyness.
As an actor, Rosalyn's professional experience includes Broadway, Film and TV. She has acted with Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry and Tom Cruise. She appeared nightly in the hit Broadway play "To Kill A Mockingbird," and Rosalyn can be seen in the feature film "Miss Virginia" starring Orange Is The New Black's Uzo Aduba.
A teacher for over 25 years, Roz has had the pleasure to teach students at NYU Tisch, SUNY Purchase, The Actors Center, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T. MFA program), Actor's Connection, Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts and conducted acting workshops at film festivals around the country.
Broadway credits include: The Piano Lesson To Kill A Mockingbird, Travesties, The Mountaintop, Radio Golf, Seven Guitars, Mule Bone and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. Rosalyn's film credits include the recent Rob Peace, written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, also Miss Virginia, The Immortal Jellyfish, Frankie and Alice, Brooklyn's Finest, Vanilla Sky, Our Song, Brown Sugar, and Music of the Heart. Television: Bull, Jessica Jones, The Black List, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Kidnapped, DC, Oz, and Law and Order: SVU and Criminal Intent. Recent off-Broadway credits: The Wedding Band, Native Son and Breakfast with Mugabe.
