Masha Dowell.

Masha Dowell is a multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, film, and fiction. Born and raised between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia, her practice traces how Black women's bodies carry place, ancestry, and historical memory.

Her one-woman play Blackwomanology has been presented at Solofest (Los Angeles), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Wake Forest University. Her play The Body Celestial was one of eight works commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Language of the Cosmos initiative. Her digital series The Telecommuters was an Official Selection of the New Media Film Festival.

She trained at the Tri-Cities High School Dramatic Arts magnet program in Atlanta, studied acting at TVI Actor's Studio (Hollywood) and Raleigh Little Theater, and undertook scene study with Vera Katz. She earned her B.S. at North Carolina A&T State University, studied Media Studies at Howard University, completed the UCLA Writers' Extension, and holds an M.A. in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University.

She is the founder of Global Culture Brands, the recipient of the 2021 Network of Ensemble Theaters Virtual Exploration Grant and the Dramatists Guild Foundation Bridge Grant, and a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild of America.