Building Resilience with Lillie Richardson

Today we are asking you, our listening audience, to call in with your comments about Oprah's Next Chapter-Black Women In Hollywood. We are also featuring Trena Bolden Fields' interview with award winning actress, Lillie Richardson on how to build resilience in the acting industry.

Lillie Richardson is an award winning actress originally from Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She recently performed with Arizona Theatre Company in Sunshine Boys.
She last performed with ATC in the award winning farce, Scapin. Ms. Richardson resides in both Tempe, AZ and Los Angeles these days working on both film and stage.

Previous stage credits include her portrayal of Rose in BTT's Fences which won her a Zoni Award for best Actress, Claudia in The Bluest Eye and Undine in Fabulation. She appeared as the Angel in both parts of Angels in America, as Ms Muller in Doubt, and as Elizabeth in the hilarious comedy In the Next Room with Actors Theatre. Some of her favorite roles include Tonya in King Hedley II, Paulina in Death and the Maiden, Sylvia in The Women, Alais in  Lion in Winter;  Susie in Wit; and Karen in Speed the Plow. Her film and television credits include the role of Shauna in six episodes of the Starz original series, Crash,  Linda in This Bitter Earth,  Truth about Jane, Young Riders, Seduced and Betrayed and Warner Bros. The Fugitive.