In Off-Broadway productions she is known for her performance in The Great Mac Daddy, and for Langston in Harlem which gave her an AUDELCO Award Nomination.
Acclaimed performances include: her role as The Lady in The Scottsboro Boys (American Conservatory Theater), as Caroline, in Caroline, or Change; as Elizabeth Keckley in A Civil War Christmas; and as Mame Wilks in Radio Golf, all of which earned her a Critic's Award for Best Female in a Play.
In 2010 she starred in Black Pearl Sings, a play with music by Frank Higgins with the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA.
She plays the role of Pearl a South Carolinian African American woman who is serving a prison sentence for a killing a man in 1935.
[6] She is host and performs for Harlem Late Night Jazz [7] January 2017, C. Kelly Wright plays Bigger Thomas' mother in "Native Son".
[8] [9] 2016 - Dark Seed, (Mrs. Montgomery), Directed and written by China L. Colston[citation needed] 2013 - Black Nativity, (Desperate Pawnshop Woman); Directed by Kasi Lemmons, written by Langston Hughes[citation needed] 2010 - Everyday Black Man, (Gloria), Directed and written by Carmen Madden[citation needed] 2009 - Angel Wishes: Journey of a Spiritual Healer, (Adult Lana) Based on a true story of the life of Lana Bettencourt.