BIO

 

Patti-Anne Ali is an Indo-Trinidadian actor, director, writer and producer who has portrayed a diverse range of characters in her thirty year career on the international stage and screen.

 

Her numerous theatre, film and television acting credits have earned critically acclaimed reviews.  Her play Single – An Act of Love was nominated for multiple Cacique awards in 2004, and in 2006, she won the Cacique for Best Supporting actress for Vera in Funny Farm’s The Odd Couple.  Internationally, she has acted in New York and in Texas and directed four Shakesperean productions, one in NY and three for the Shakespeare in Paradise Festival in The Bahamas.  Film and television appearances include: Westwood Park, The Mystic Masseur, Home Again and Sally’s Way, Doubles and Mixed Up.  The award winning four part TV documentary The West Indies at War, produced by Savant TV, currently running on The Parliament Channel, is voiced by Patti.  She is a graduate of the Festival Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI (1991) and the New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts (2007), both on scholarship.  She also holds a BA Literatures in English with Theatre Arts (Hons) from the University of the West Indies, 2022.  

 

With her company Sugar House, she has worked in the advertising industry successfully, for over two decades.  As a copywriter and producer, she has worked with major Ad Agencies including McCann Erickson, Lonsdale Saatchi and Saatchi and Publicis Caribbean.  Ali is also a published writer.  In 2018, her poem "Rights of Passage" was published in the Commonwealth Writers Anthology We mark your memory and in 2022, "This too was true" was published in The Caribbean Writer.  

 

Since 2017, Patti has been a member of the National Theatre Arts Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NTACTT) www.facebook.com/NTACTT, appearing in Mathura’s Three Sisters after Chekhov, Baldwin’s The Amen Corner, Jarvis and Armoroso’s Master of Carnival, John’s Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Archibald's Junction Village and Shakespeare's The Tempest.

 

Hats worn include: actor, singer, director, writer, producer, editor, author and voice-over artist.  She has occasionally worn some of these hats simultaneously, resulting in a rather unusual fashion statement. 

 

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