Actor

Safiya
Fredericks

Safiya Fredericks is honored to be making her Geffen Playhouse debut! She was most recently seen on screen in the Chapter 5 episode of The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+, and on stage in the premiere of It’s Christmas, Carol! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was a 2019 company member performing in Hairspray and How to Catch Creation. She was the recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress for her work in black odyssey at California Shakespeare Theatre. Past favorite credits include Aubergine and Fairview at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Hard Problem at A.C.T., Father Comes Home from the Wars at Yale Repertory Theatre, and Once on This Island at TheatreWorks. You can see her in the films Bitter Melon, Sorry to Bother You, and the upcoming I’m Charlie Walker.

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