NEW YORK — The last time Lencia Kebede lived in New York ... gravity eight times as week as the first Black actress to play Elphaba full time in “Wicked” on Broadway.

STEPHEN COLBERT Lencia Kebede says she admires that in “Wicked,” Elphaba fights “for what she knows is right, even when everyone disagrees.” Lencia Kebede is the first Black actress to pla ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “The place where Elphaba and I meet is empathy and advocacy for justice,” said Lencia Kebede, who is the first Black actress to play the role full time on Broadway.

Lencia Kebede became the first Black woman to take over the role of Elphaba on Broadway full-time. Democrats walk out of crypto hearing after tense moments All the stars who broke Anna Wintour’s ...

Kebede is a proud first-generation Ethiopian-American, a graduate from Occidental College majoring in Diplomacy & World Affairs and minoring in Politics. Before Wicked, she spent five ...

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company ...

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.” ...

NEW YORK — Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history last week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of ...

Lencia Kebede, an Ethiopian actress, made history as the first full-time Black actress to portray Elphaba on Broadway. While the cinematic version of “Wicked” is currently streaming on Peacock ...

Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of "Wicked." "It's hard to even pinpoint a single ...