Biography

Alexis Rene Garcia, professionally known as Naheem Garcia, has been an actor and theatre educator for thirty years. He grew up in Boston, arriving here from Cuba with his mother, grandmother and aunt in 1968. Naheem is proudly bilingual (English and Spanish) and known for his deep, mellifluous voice. He received his formal training in theater arts at New African Company, where he has been a Distinguished Artist-In-Residence since 2004.

Naheem is the Founder and lead teaching Artist for NG edutainment, an Arts/Education Program, founded in Boston Massachusetts. He has been a teaching artist and a member of the Huntington Theatre Company's Education Department, for close to 30 years. He is the former speaker in Residents for the METCO Program at Sharon High School, Sharon, MA and is doing workshops with the Boston Police Department's youth program, Acting Up With the 5-0 program, as well as an adjunct professor at Salva Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. Naheem is a long time member of AFTRA-SAG, New England. Naheem is also the Artistic Director for the Oversoul Theatre Collective, and a member of the Board of Directors for Song Keepers, LTD.

Naheem's work has been lauded by his peers and he received the The Brown Sugar Culture Excellence 2021, State Street-El Planeta Powermeter 100 of the Most Influential Latinx (2014), OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center-Sojourner Truth Award (2007) and In recognition of his excellence as a theatre educator, he represented the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation for NeighborWorks American and Community Leadership Institute Los Angeles California in 2017, in same year, he completed the Aesthetic Education Immersion program with the Lincoln Center Summer Forum at Julliard, New York, NY. Naheem continues his path as an actor and theatre educator whose mission is to represent and encourage youth and audiences through his work.
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