Haneefah Wood

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Haneefah Wood
Nationality USA
Occupation actor

Haneefah Wood is an award winning American actor.[1] Her performance in the one woman play Bad Dates received the best solo performance award from the Independent Reviewers of New England.[2]

In 2018 Wood was named as a member of the cast of the Apple TV+ series Truth Be Told.[3]

In December 2018 Wood joined a cast lead by Simon Helberg at the Pasadena Playhouse simulcasting an audio version of It's a Wonderful Life.[4]

References

  1. Kilian Melloy (2018-02-12). "Haneefah Wood And The Huntington Make 'Bad Dates' A Rewarding Night Out". WBUR. https://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/02/05/bad-dates-huntington. Retrieved 2019-07-22. "We get to know Haley Walker (Haneefah Wood), the lone onstage character in Theresa Rebeck’s crowd-pleasing one-woman show “Bad Dates” (at the Huntington Theatre Company mainstage through March 3), from a series of conversational musings that are defined by sudden changes of topic, narrative zigs and zags, overheard phone calls, brief exchanges with her tween daughter Vera, endearing confidences and, finally, a grand convergence of wildly disparate story threads that don’t tie up into a nice red bow so much as speak to Haley’s arrival at a place of personal responsibility." 
  2. "JAGGLED LITTLE PILL, MOULIN ROUGE And More Winners Announced For the 23rd Annual IRNE Awards; Danny Burstein, Lauren Patten and More!". Broadway World magazine. 2019-04-09. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/JAGGLED-LITTLE-PILL-MOULIN-ROUGE-And-More-Winners-Announced-For-the-23rd-Annual-IRNE-Awards-20190409. Retrieved 2019-07-22. "The Huntington Theatre led all companies with 10 awards, including Best Actor (Man in the Ring, John Douglas Thompson), Best Actress (Lisa Banes, The Niceties), and Best Solo Performance, (Haneefah Wood, Bad Dates)." 
  3. Nellie Andreeva (2018-10-08). "‘Are You Sleeping’: Katherine LaNasa Joins Apple Series In Recasting". Deadline magazine. https://deadline.com/2018/10/are-you-sleeping-katherine-lanasa-apple-series-recasting-1202477683/. Retrieved 2019-07-22. "Joining Spencer in the 10-episode thriller drama are Aaron Paul (The Path, Breaking Bad), Weeds alumna Elizabeth Perkins, Mekhi Phifer (ER, 8 Mile), Michael Beach (Aquaman, Sons of Anarchy), Tracie Thoms (Rent, Unreal), and Haneefah Wood (Baskets, One Day at a Time)." 
  4. "It's a Wonderful Life: A live radio-play". Pasadena Playhouse. December 2018. https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/its-a-wonderful-life/. Retrieved 2019-07-22. "She did a two- month run last winter at the Huntington Theater in Boston starring in Theresa Rebeck’s play Bad Dates. Previous credits include Zoe Ever After, Life in Pieces, Grease Live!, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The League and Nurse Jackie. Broadway credits include Avenue Q and Rent at the Nederlander Theater."