Latoya Cameron as Wi’am El Dieri

Latoya Cameron

she/her, returns to In The Now after playing Tamara in CANDY & DOROTHY. She is an actor, singer, writer, and director, and serves as Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Dramaturg at Salt Lake Acting Company. As an actor, you may have seen her on the local stages at Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, SLAC, and Plan-B Theatre Company. She made her Off-Broadway debut as the lead in SHELTER: THE MUSICAL, at the formally known New York Musical Theater Festival in New York City. In 2022, she was part of the production, THE CLEAN-UP PROJECT, which was named the Utah Review’s Top Moment of the Utah Enlightenment by Les Roka. In 2022, she made her directing debut with the production of RENT. Since then, she has directed SANKOFA, THIS JOURNEY: GO BACK AND GET IT (a collaboration with Utah Black Artists Collective (UBLAC) and SLAC), TITLE OF SHOW (The Grand), and TOWN HALL (University of Utah). As a Change Leader, she raises her voice for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized groups within her community. She’s part of the 2022-23 National Leaders of Color Fellows, representing the WESTAF region, and is one of the 2023 Mayor’s Artist Award recipients. She continues to be an advocate and activist for inclusion, representation, and equity in the arts.

Wiam El Dieri (2010, 2014)

Wi’am had 7 brothers and sisters, she liked choir singing and theatre, she wanted to be a Doctor. She graduated from the ASHTAR Acting Program in 2014. She died in Ramallah in 2019.