actor | writer

Born and raised in Central Jersey (a very real place), Raven was an avid writer and musician in her high school's marching band long before gracing the stage. Acting became an integral part of her life after she joined her high school's drama club stage crew; quickly, her love for operating spotlights shifted to a desire to be in them. During her Junior year, she was one of 100 students (out of 10,000) selected to attend the Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and Essence Magazine as an aspiring actress. That same summer, she was accepted into the Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory, studying Meisner technique with renowned professor Kevin Kittle. She was accepted into the Montclair State BFA Acting program the following winter; graduating cum laude in May 2020, she received the BFA Acting Award from her professors. Her final performance on the MSU stage as the headstrong Nasreen and naïve Belen in Naomi Iizuka's "Anon(ymous)", directed by INTAR Theatre's Lou Moreno, earned her a nomination for the 2020 Irene Ryan Award. ​

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Shortly after graduation, she established a production company called Quarter Life Productions, inspired by the one-act play she wrote early on during the pandemic. She reworked this project into a screenplay, producing and co-starring in a pilot for an original web series, Quarter Life Crisis — an official selection in 11 festivals, it has won 8 awards (winning Best Web Series and TV Pilot four times over). Her next project, an audio drama calledThe Void, is currently in pre-production.

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Outside of acting in shorts opposite Emma Raimi, commercials for Lowe's, voiceover campaigns for Lotas Productions, writing award-winning pilots, and producing audio dramas, Raven is a frequent flyer, tea drinker, and lover of all things new. Learning languages, tap dancing, pickleball, fencing, and new recipes usually fill the little free time she has! You can often find her upstairs in her studio, reading (or listening to) autobiographies, watching a video essay, or practicing American Sign Language (ASL).