She doesn’t get a chance to come home often, but when she does, her family and friends make her feel as if she never left. Their outpouring of love and support for her acting career makes it hard for her to hit the road again, doing what she loves.
She doesn’t get a chance to come home often, but when she does, her family and friends make her feel as if she never left. Their outpouring of love and support for her acting career makes it hard for her to hit the road again, doing what she loves.
Former Miss Black Chicago Trisha Mann recently returned to the Windy City as the leading lady in the JD Lawrence stage play, "The Clean Up Woman." The play is touring nationally.
Mann stars as a married, high-profile news anchor named Terri Adams whose demanding schedule causes her to neglect her “duties” as a wife and homemaker. To ease the growing tension with her husband, played by singer/actor Christopher Williams, she comes up with a solution.
But in hindsight, it may not have been the best one, she quickly learns.
“I’m so busy that my husband’s complaining and the house is a mess. To make him happy, I hire a clean up woman,” Mann explained.
The thespian was picked for the lead role after filling in for a friend last fall during a reading for a sitcom by Lawrence. About a month later, the playwright called and asked if she could learn the "The Clean Up Woman" script in three days, she said.
“It’s a blessing to be able to do what I love, working with such talented people and doing so in Chicago,” Mann told the Defender.
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