Margaret Laurena Kemp is an actor, multi-disciplinary artist and theatre educator specializing in the area of Performance, Acting, Voice and Speech. She has just returned from an Australian tour her solo performance Confluence… formerly entitled A Negro Speaks of Rivers. She has recently presented her newest work, Imaginary Landscapes /A Memory in Progress, which explores the role of memory in performance. On November 8 and 9, 2016 she performed Chapter One of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God at St. John the Divine Cathedral in Harlem. Her upcoming projects include voicing Wrapped in Rainbows, The Biography of Zora Neale Hurston audio-book production. While at UC Davis she is researching the mechanisms of the author-function as they relate to present day race and gender narratives.

Her past artistic credits are numerous. They include a commission by the City of Los Angele to write and direct From the Rock for their “Los Angeles Plays the River” project, which brought together professional and community artists to explore the nature of ‘language and movement’ as a river that connects generations and communities. She has appeared on regional and international stages including Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Theatre of Changes (Athens, Greece), Red Pear Theatre (Antibes, France), and The Magnet Theatre (Cape Town South Africa). Her film credits include a starring role in Brazilian film Children of God. She has also acted in television programs including Commander in Chief. Her visual, and in the soon to be released feature film, Dark Rite.