Jajube Mandiela is best known for 8 seasons as Chantay on Degrassi, she also voiced Pristine on Crash Canyon, was in Disney's Jump In! and the feature film Red Lights.
On stage, her acting highlights include Blue Planet and El Numero Uno (Young People's Theatre), critically acclaimed Sia (Pyretic Productions at Fringe, and Cahoots Theatre Company’s 2012 mainstage), Greenland (part of Fault Lines, Governor General Award winning play trilogy), two summers performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park), originating the lead role in Dora Award nominated Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct), Dora Award nominated Wrecked (Roseneath Theatre) and Wounded Soldiers (4th Line Theatre).
Jajube is Artistic Director of b current, a Toronto-based theatre company rooted in cultural diversity primarily of the Black diaspora: bcurrent.ca
Her other stage and screen direction includes All of Him (in between in association with b current) at Summerworks & Femfest festivals, TICK at the Toronto Fringe and Best of FringeKids!, as well as co-voice directing and co-starring in the animated short film Bee & Julie-Julie (premiered at ReelWorld 2014).
Representation
Ronda Cooper
ronda@thecharacters.com
THE CHARACTERS
8 Elm St.
Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1G7
T: 416.964.8522
F: 416.964.8206
Jajube is a member of CAEA & ACTRA.
Demo reel on Casting Workbook.
imdb.me/jajubeM
ronda@thecharacters.com
THE CHARACTERS
8 Elm St.
Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1G7
T: 416.964.8522
F: 416.964.8206
Jajube is a member of CAEA & ACTRA.
Demo reel on Casting Workbook.
imdb.me/jajubeM