Royana Black

Birthday: 1 March 1973, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Birth Name: Royana Black

Royana Black started acting at 11 years old in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs", which she did for over a year, never letting her understudy go on. Since ...Show More

Royana Black started acting at 11 years old in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs", which she did for over a year, never letting her understudy go on. Since then, she has continued to do off-Broadway and regional theatre, both in New York and Los Angeles. One of her fondest memories was developing and performing in the late Wendy Wasserstein's semi-autobiographical musical "Miami" (alongside Jane Krakowski and Fisher Stevens, in which she played the playwright as an adolescent. The music was written by the famed Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman and directed by the Tony Award winner Gerald Gutierrez.She quickly made the transition into television, first co-starring opposite Robert Klein in the ABC pilot "Father's Day". By 15, she was starring as the title character in the CBS series "Raising Miranda", alongside on Bryan Cranston (Walter White pre-meth days) and James Naughton, and worked steadily in television and theatre on both coasts.Royana took 4 precious years away from her career to get a B.A. in Victorian Literature from Yale University, which enables her to speak fairly articulately at cocktail parties with pretentious Anglophiles; however, it has not offered her the fallback career a liberal arts education promises (at least in the brochures). Upon graduating, she packed up a U-Haul with two of her best friends, moved back to NYC and promptly founded her first non-profit theatre company, producing three shows while working three full-time jobs.Finally exhausted, she packed up her apartment and her cat Jules and moved to Los Angeles, where she continues her work in television and films; she also does as much theatre as she can. She is the Artistic Director of the Alliance Repertory Company, which produces original works all over town.Royana is married to actor JP Hubbell and they have a cat (Jules from NYC) and a dog, both rescues.She may be best known for getting Vanessa drunk on "The Cosby Show". Hide