Naheem Garcia

Naheem Garcia, born Alexis Rene Garcia, is an actor and theater educator with a career spanning thirty years. He grew up in Boston, having moved there from Cuba with his mother, grandmother, and aunt in 1968. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Garcia is known for his deep, resonant voice. He received his formal theater training at the New African Company, where he has served as a Distinguished Artist-In-Residence since 2004. He is the founder and lead teaching artist for NG edutainment, an arts and education program based in Boston, Massachusetts. For nearly three decades, he has worked as a teaching artist and member of the Huntington Theatre Company's Education Department. He has also served as a speaker for the METCO Program at Sharon High School in Sharon, Massachusetts, and conducts workshops with the Boston Police Department's youth program, Acting Up With the 5-0. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. A long-time member of AFTRA-SAG, New England, Garcia is also the Artistic Director of the Oversoul Theatre Collective and a board member of Song Keepers, LTD. He has received several honors, including the Brown Sugar Culture Excellence award in 2021, the State Street-El Planeta Powermeter 100 of the Most Influential Latinx in 2014, and the OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center-Sojourner Truth Award in 2007. In 2017, he represented the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation for NeighborWorks America and the Community Leadership Institute in Los Angeles, California, and that same year, he completed the Aesthetic Education Immersion program at the Lincoln Center Summer Forum at Juilliard in New York, NY. Garcia continues his work as an actor and theater educator, committed to inspiring youth and audiences through his art.