Dominique Fishback
Honoree
Dominique Fishback is an actress and playwright from Brooklyn, NY. She will be starring in Warner Brother’s film JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH opposite Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, and recently garnered acclaim for her leading role opposite Jamie Foxx & Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Netflix feature PROJECT POWER. Dominique's sensational acting chops are highlighted in the HBO series THE DEUCE opposite James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and opposite Amandla Stenberg in Fox 2000’s THE HATE U GIVE. In January of 2018, Dominique was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Sundance Film Festival’s breakout stars for her critically praised performance in NIGHT COMES ON for director Jordana Spiro, which won the festival’s audience NEXT award. As a playwright and spoken word artist, Dominique was nominated for the New York Innovative Theatre Award’s ‘Outstanding Solo Performance’ for her one woman show SUBVERTED, where she plays 20 different characters and is the deconstruction of the Black Identity in America.