Amber Iman
Amber Iman is an American actress, singer, activist and filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up in the area, trained in Atlanta theatre and ballet, and earned her BFA magna cum laude in musical theatre from Howard University in 2008 after a Cap21 Summer Intensive at NYU in 2007.
Her career began in Atlanta regional theatre with the Alliance Theatre and True Colors Theatre Company, with roles including The Rabbit in Goodnight Moon and Lucinda in Into the Woods. She briefly toured as a background vocalist for Lauryn Hill before moving to New York in 2012.
Iman made her Broadway debut in Soul Doctor (2013) as Nina Simone, earning a Clive Barnes Award nomination. She starred in Shuffle Along (2016) and joined the first national tour of Hamilton (2017) as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds.
Her later work has won major recognition. In 2022 she played Nadira in Goddess at Berkeley Rep and Rafaela in Lempicka at La Jolla Playhouse, for which she won the Ovation Award and later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical when she originated the role of Rafaela on Broadway in 2024. Her one-woman show An Evening with Amber Iman was Webby-nominated in 2022 and recorded by Audible. She also appeared in the film Steve and Blackberry Winter and on HBO’s High Maintenance.
Iman is a co-founder of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Black Women on Broadway, organizations that aim to use theatre to promote equity. In 2023 she debuted at A.C.T. in San Francisco in Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical, and in 2025 she reprised Nadira in Goddess Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre.
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