Award-winning writer/Actress, former talk show host/news reporter, Lorey Hayes recently starred as Anna in Pat Battistini’s Multi-Award-Winning Film Dignity, that has showcased in over 52 Film Festivals around the globe and counting: to stellar reviews, winning numerous awards; including Best Actress for Ms. Hayes.

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Lorey has starred on and off Broadway, in England and numerous regional theaters throughout the country.  She is a familiar face on television and has guest starred on award-winning shows and in plays with such iconic performers as Kevin Bacon, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Viola Davis, Jimmy Smits and Melba Moore. 

 

She starred in London, England as Eunice Evers in Miss Evers’ Boys at the Royal Shakespeare Festival and The Bristol Old Vic. Some Guest Star television credits include: NCIS, The Last Ship, Family Law, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope, Sister, Sister, All My Children, Another World, Ryan’s Hope, The Bill Cosby Show and The Doctors.

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Film enthusiasts can see Hayes in Barry Bowles’ Message From A Mistress, featuring Vanessa Bell Calloway, Reggie Gaskin’s Urban Love Story.  Charlotte Sista C. Ferrell’s Sisters Out the Box, Ron Gonzalez’ The Night We Died and interviewing Jaime Foxx in Dreamgirls. Please watch for Lorey Hayes as Michelle Pierre, a distraught Jamaican mother, in Mike Estime’ series All For Love: Meet the Pierres. Hayes’ Favorite episode is "Pride and Prejudice" and in Mike Uganda’s Prime film Happiness with Vanessa Simmons and Darrin Dewitt Henson.

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Hayes can also currently be seen as Claudine in M Legend Brown’s award-winning fait- based film, A Heart That Forgives with Malik Whitfield, Carl Payne and Irma P. Hall.  Newest films, Out of this World by Elia Petridis and Jardins are due out soon.

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Theater  buffs remember Hayes as the youngest original cast member of Ntozake Shange’s controversial and provocative hit play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. From New York back alleys to the lower east side, Hayes was instrumental in getting the production to Broadway where it is forever sealed into the hearts of millions.  Lorey and those who were fortunate enough to view the live production are quick to point out that the play and the film are vastly different.  Lorey’s own writings were profoundly influenced by Shange’s choreopoem.

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Hayes, a familiar face in commercials and print ads and counts Scope’s “It’s Time For A Kiss” as her all-time favorite and most recognized.