Andresia Moseley 

Andresia Moseley, or “Real” as she is known in the poetry community, has more than a decade of professional artistic and theatrical experience. She is a classically trained actress and nationally recognized spoken word artist and curator. In 2020-2021 she was a nominee “Best Actress” Best of the Bay Awards Creative Loafing, named “Best Regional Performance of the Year”. Twilight: Los Angeles 1992. Broadway World and featured in The Wall Street Journal for her role in Doubt A Parable with Jobsite Theater. In 2018-2019 Andresia was the recipient of the National Performance Network’s Creation and Development Fund co-commissioned by Art2Action and ASU Gammage and supported by the Hillsborough Arts Council for the development of her first one woman show Five Black Women. Moseley was also honored to become an ASU Gammage Artist in Residence.

2016-2019 Moseley was on national toured as the lead character in Speed Killed My Cousin by Linda Parris-Bailey with The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. She was named the “stand out actress” for her role as the Lady in Blue in Ntozke Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (2015). She was also named “exceptional, stand out actress” for her role as Aphrodite in Hot Nights of the War Wives of Ithaca (2013). In 2015 Moseley was the Post-Show Dialogue Moderator for Eleven Reflections of September by Andrea Assaf at the historic La Mama ETC. New York, NY. In 2014 Andresia’s poem Fatherless was published in “A Collection of New Voices from Tampa Bay”

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In addition, some of her recent theatre credits include: American Son at StageWorks Theater (2021),
Twilight Los Angeles 1992 (2020) and Doubt: A Parable at Jobsite Theater (2021), Red Summer at the
Bijoux Theatre, Knoxville, TN. (2019) Swopera: A Spoken Word Opera (2019), Dark Cowgirls and Prairie
Queens at the Love Doughty Carousal Theatre Knoxville, TN (2018) and Between a Ballad and a Blues at
the Clayton Center for the Arts, TN. (2018).

Some of Andresia’s select accomplishments as a poet and curator include being selected as a feature for
the National Writer’s Resist campaign (2017), being featured on WFLA News Channel 8 for the Gasp!
Festival of Artists (2016), and on the “Rhythm and Hues Show” A&E network (2015). She was a nominee
for “Best Poet” in Tampa’s “Best of the Bay” Awards (2015) and was the guest facilitator for the Tampa
Bay Poetry Workshop (2016, 2018). She is also a frequently featured poet on the 88.5 WWNF "Poetry Is"
radio show, and she is a member of the Tampa Bay Poetry Council. She is a regular host for Art2Action’s
programs, such as the monthly Veterans Community Open Mic, and their 2015 National Poetry
Celebration. Additional hosting credits include the Open Mic Night with the Tampa Theatre Festival, and
the Aids Foundation (AHF) National Poetry Slam.