Oni Faida Lampley's Broadway credits include Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and August Wilson's Two Trains Running. She has performed in contemporary and classical material Off-Broadway, regionally, and was featured in Peter Sellers' operatic staging of Igor Stravinsky's Biblical Pieces, which premiered in Amsterdam in 1999. Most recently, Lampley was nominated for a Barrymore Award for "Outstanding Leading Actress", for her one-woman show, The Dark Kalamazoo, which premieres in New York this fall.

Her film and television work includes Dragonfly, with Kevin Costner, First Do No Harm, with Meryl Streep, John Sayles' Lonestar, Sopranos, Oz, Homicide, NYPD Blue, and multiple appearances on Law and Order, and Third Watch, and numerous commercials. She is a member of an elite group of actors invited to work on new plays this summer at the Sundance Theatre Lab.

An award-winning playwright, her first play, Mixed Babies, won Washington, DC's 1991 Helen Hayes award for Outstanding New Play. Mixed Babies was subsequently produced in New York by Manhattan Class Company, and published by Dramatists Play Services. Her second play, The Dark Kalamazoo, earned her another Helen Hayes nomination in 1999, and will be published in the anthology The Fire This Time, by Theatre Communications Group, along with plays by Pulitzer prize winners August Wilson and Suzan Lori Parks.

Ms. Lampley made her magazine debut in Mirabella in 1993 with her personal essay, "The Wig and I." She's also been published in ELLE magazine.

She won entrance into the 1998 Sundance Screenwriters Lab to begin developing a film version of The Dark Kalamazoo. She has completed a screenplay about southern African-American migrant farm workers in the 1960's based on a work of Robert Coles', and she's writing a play about breast cancer survivorship called, Tough Titty.

An alumna of Juilliard's Playwrighting Program, Lampley received The Lincoln Center LeComte du Nouy Award. Other grants and commissions include the Smithsonian Institute, the William and Eva Fox Foundation grant, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and a commission from Alabama Shakespeare Festival.