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Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
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Height: 5' 5"
Birth Place: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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BIOGRAPHY: Phyllis Yvonne Stickney is the second child born to Felix and Belle NOT the oldest. Phyllis Yvonne Stickney was one of the first comedians of color to perform at the Juste Pour Rire Comedy Festival in Montreal. Canada. She performed with the late John Candy as well as being introduced at the festival by Ed Bagley Jr. to perform her stand up comedy. Her stand-up performance at the world famous Apollo Theater was one of the selling points to sell the now popular Showtime at the Apollo to the network. Ms. Stickney is also a motivational speaker and published author and poet. She was the first female to ever perform with The Last Poets on the sound track of Panther (1995/I). Essence Magazine's 25th Anniversary Issue named her as one of the 200 African American Women who has changed the world. Ms. Stickney has created and dseigned a line of clothing for every woman called Butterbaby, the line is scheduled be launched in Spring/Summer of 2004. Ms Stickney is the Founder/Executive Director for a non-profit community based organization called Alternative Careers in the Arts. She is also an accomplished stage performer and has received two AUDELCO Awards for Excellence in Black Theater. She was also the writer/Creative Consultant on the ABC short lived series New Attitude a Castle Rock production.
TRIVIA:
- Sister of actor 'Timothy Stickney' (qv)
- Was originally cast as Rachel Meadows in 'Spike Lee' (qv)'s _School Daze (1988)_ (qv), but was replaced by 'Kyme' (qv) due to artistic differences.
- Phyllis Yvonne Stickney performed stand-up comedy before the cameras appeared and was actually slated to be the first Host of Showtime at the Apollo, before Simbad, Kim Coles and definitely before Steve Harvey at the same time she was cast in the original line-up of A Different World. First Afri-centric chacater on National TV since Cicely Tyson wore a short afro years ago.
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