About Me

Tamara Della Anderson is a Renaissance artist who works as an actor, educator, writer, and organizer. She is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Newly elected At Large Councilor for the Eastern Region of Actors Equity Association. 

Her company, The Gumbo Lab, features a virtual platform for Black female identifying and Black queer solo artists and an annual BIPOC ten-minute film festival (Radical Imaginings). 

Her BIPOC Database and Resource Guide connects BIPOC creatives to work in the industry. She is one of the founding steering committee members of the National Black Lives Matter Week of Action at Schools, a Teach Truth organizer with Zinn Education Project, a member of the Philadelphia Writing Project Advisory Board, and a former member of the National Advisory Council for Teaching Artists Guild (TAG). She is a founding member of Racial Justice Organizing Committee and the Melanated Educators Collective. She is a 2023 art resident/fellow at Hermitage Artist Retreat. 

Her writing includes Erasure of Black Women (#CritEdPol: Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College. Jan 2021), Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Philadelphia Schools

(Lapiz No 6 Hacer Escuela - Inventing School - 2021), Chapter 3: From Philly with Love: Black Lives Matter at School goes National (Black Lives Matter st School: An Uprising for Educational Justice - Dec 2020), Foreword: The Systemic Cycle of Brokenness (Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor No 26 - Jan 2016), #TeachTruth: Pushing Back Attacks on CRT (Convergence Magazine - Aug 2021), Sample Street (A full length play - 2023), and Anywhere (a 10 minute play).