Sarita Covington is a multi-disciplinary artist/activist from Harlem with over fifteen year’s experience acting in theater, TV, and film, including As The World Turns and the short film The Interruption. Some favorite theatre credits include Shakespeare the Remix (Capital Rep); Lulu (Mark Lamos, director), Miss Julie, The Clean House (Bill Rauch, director), all at Yale Rep; The Whale Play (Shana Cooper, director), Forgiveness ( Tribeca Performing Arts Center), Surely Goodness And Mercy (Keen Company).

Her play Things Went Horribly Wrong was produced in Rochester, NY. She is co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity), a multiracial grassroots organizing group of artists committed to racial equity in the arts. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.