Accomplished actress, singer-songwriter, performer, and producer, DeQuina Moore is certainly a force to be reckoned with. Forget triple-threat! This captivating artist/Houston, TX native is a natural born SEPTUPLE-threat with the passion, drive, beauty, poise, and personality of a true superstar. This season, she performed as Glinda/ Auntie Em in The Wiz at Fulton Theatre. Upcoming, she’ll appear as stripper Cinnamon in Diarra from Detroit.

Recently, DeQuina tore the house down with her role as Shug Avery in acclaimed The Color Purple at Maine State Music Theatre. She brought “the Queen Honeybee back to the hive and every man, woman, and breathing thing in her sphere wants her, or worships her from afar. Moore sold every song…and left that lingering memory of her vibrant presence each time she made an exit”, said the Wiscasset Newspaper.

DeQuina is most well known for her starring roles like originating the role of Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway, and originating the role of Pilar Legally Blonde on Broadway! She’s played in several other shows such as Josephine Baked in Josephine Tonight, Shakespeare in the Park’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hair, Happy Days the Musical, Beehive, and starred in the Broadway National Tour of Flashdancethe Musical, as Kiki: “…the sassy, sexy, savvy waitress by day/flashdancer by night!” She’s also performed as Rachel Marron, Nickie Marron, & Featured Ensemble/Karaoke Girl in The Bodyguard National Tour.

DeQuina has become the bell-of-the-ball with regard to holding a stage all by herself in one women shows! She took audiences on major roller-coaster rides with three one-woman shows almost consecutively! DeQuina nailed Billie Holiday in Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill. “DeQuina Moore…gets the off-beat phrasing, that whiskey infused rasp, that throaty vibrato which are Holiday’s signature style. When you hear ‘Strange Fruit’ or ‘God Bless The Child’, you hear Holiday roar into life,” says the Houston Press. She brought audiences and entertainment news reviewers to their feet night-after-night with her portrayal of Lauren Anderson, the first black professional company-hired ballerina, in the highly lauded Plumshuga at STAGES Houston. Additionally, her talents were challenged and expanded further in her third 1-woman production, Houston For The Holidays, where she sang her favorite Christmas songs-cabaret style!

DeQuina has landed numerous national/ international commercials, voice-overs, and print ads with such companies as Coca-Cola, Payless, Bank of America and many more. On the small screen, she has secured starring roles on majors like Law & Order: SVU, Lifetime’s Racing For Time, NBC’s Third Watch, and more. On the big screen, she enjoyed her leading role as Devonne in Joyful Noise, sharing the screen with superstars such as Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton; and, her film career goes on to include such movies as Madea’s Big Happy Family, The Last New Yorker, Ghost Town, Rachel Getting Married, Camp, and more. She recently filmed a recurring role on a new TV series: 5th Ward; and, DeQuina booked the role of Janice in an upcoming Lifetime Original Movie Lust, starring Keri Hilson and Tank.