After writing, directing, and starring in ‘Queen of Glory,’ itsnanamensah has a slate of projects upcoming. And she's just getting started.
The actor, writer, director, and producer has hustled her way into the industry—and shows no signs of stopping.Nana Mensah photographed by Stephanie Diani. Styling by Zadrian Smith and Sarah Edmiston. Hair by Cheryl Bergamy. Makeup by Billie Gene.
It’s going to be a booked and busy fall for Nana Mensah, a rising star in the indie film and theater scenes. And the actor-writer-director-producer, who will take over the small screen this month when she appears in Netflix’sGrowing up in Connecticut, Mensah says her parents constantly debated whether or not their daughter would be a doctor or a lawyer—either that, or they argued over which Ivy League school she’d attend.
When she went to boarding school in her teen years, she fell in love with acting. “For being a New England private boarding school, it was weirdly creative, and had a very strong theater program,” she explained, citing Betty Gilpin, Katherine Waterston, and Jason Wu as some notable classmates from her time. Still, her parents weren’t jazzed about her creative ambitions eclipsing their expectations, so she studied French literature and history instead.
The mix of odd jobs wasn’t for naught—the hodgepodge of surroundings and interactions at least gave Mensah plenty of stories. She wasn’t acting, but she started writing to diversify her portfolio. “I made it my business to read as many scripts as I could,” she said. “If I’m going to be alive, I need to be a storyteller. That’s integral to who I am and what I want to do with my life, and if it’s not going to be in front of a camera, there’s going to be another way.
After taking writing classes and gobbling up every script she could find while getting small roles in indie films and Off-Broadway plays, Mensah eventually generated the idea for the film that would go on to be her feature debut . She wrote, directed, and starred in, a film about a professor who reluctantly takes over her family’s Christian bookstore in the Bronx when her mother passes away. The film is based, in part, on her aunt’s real shop, The King of Glory.
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