Nollywood Dreams and The Man From Nebraska. She has also been flexing her talents behind the scenes in the writer’s rooms for shows like HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, Amazon’s The Power, and Netflix’s The Bonding.
However, her directorial debut, Queen of Glory, and a new Netflix series, The Chair, where she stars opposite Sandra Oh, have pushed her center stage in ways that she never expected.
Mensah wrote, starred in, and directed Queen of Glory, chronicling one woman’s journey to take charge of her life following her mother’s death.
Set in the Pelham Bay neighborhood of The Bronx, Mensah’s character Sarah tries to wade through the messiness of her personal life as she prepares to bury her mother.
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