NADIRAH SHAKIR (Cleo) Uptown Players debut! Her recent stage credits include Shadows of My Past and Watch Night, along with directing credits for Dark Road, Oz, What Happened After Happily Ever After, Gossip, and Annie. On screen, Nadirah appeared as Agent Samuels in The First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story (BET+) and has appeared in P-Valley (STARZ), The Vampire Diaries (The CW), Barbershop: The Next Cut, Tasmanian Devil, and the Emmy-nominated series #WASHED. Recent film credits include Homage, Assigned to You, and Deranged Lover. Nadirah has trained with Leah Daniels-Butler, Ser’Darius Blain, Lesly Kahn, Glenn Morshower, and Jemal McNeil. She is a graduate of the University of Houston with a BA in Communications.