Trina Parks Tribute Page

For professional purposes, contact Trina's agent:
MR ALCUS HOLLY (agency)
(323) 556-0677
Click to e-mail Trina's agent at alcusdholly@yahoo.com

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This page is my tribute to Trina Parks: actress, singer and dancer.

Trina has created her own solo act, captivating audiences from the East to the West coasts and throughout Eastern and Western Europe. She performed with the Lionel Hampton Band in NYC. She also performed at the "Las Vegas Rivera," "The Desert Inn," "Harrah's Tahoe" in Sammy Davis's show, "The Hilton Manila" and "The Crystal Room" in Tokyo, Japan.

She has taught Modern, Jazz, Broadway, African and Haitian dance in New York and Los Angeles, teaching all age groups as well as special education students and church groups at rehabilitation and assisted living centers. Trina also taught Modern Dance at the New Dance Group in New York City; for the Bronx and Manhattan Board of Education; for the Los Angeles High School for the Arts. Ms. Parks was on the dance staff of the LA Music Center, Educational Dance Division. Her other teaching credits include "SOUL TRAIN," Inner City Cultural Center, movement to actors in Los Angeles and aerobics at the Jane Fonda Dance School in Los Angeles and at the New York City College.

Ms. Parks arranged and produced her own show, Trina's Tribute to Duke Ellington, which she performed in New York City and Los Angeles. In 2003, Trina became the first African-American feature performer in the "Fabulous Palm Springs Follies" in Palm Springs, California.

Click to e-mail Trina Parks at teabey@yahoo.com

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Here are Trina's credits:

Movies

• Diamonds Are Forever
• Darktown Strutters
• The Muthers
• The Great White Hope
• The Blues Brothers

TV

• The Phantom Farmhouse episode of television's Night Gallery
• McCoy - NBC Movie of the Week
• Dick Shawn Special - Featured singer/dancer - CBS
• Hollywood Palace (2 shows) - Featured singer/dancer - NBC
• French composer Michel Legrand Special - Featured dancer - Paris TV
• Dionne Warwick Special - Featured dancer - CBS
• Telly Savalas Special - Featured dancer - CBS

Theatre

• The Selling of the President
• Her First Roman
• Emperor Jones - Principal - NY & European Tour, with James Earl Jones
• The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones
• Bittersweet - Principal - Long Beach C.L. Opera, with Shirley Jones
• More Than You Deserve - Principal - NY Shakespeare Festival, with Fred Gwynne
• They're Playing Our Song - Principal - Grand Dinner Theatre, with Joanne Worley
• House of Flowers '92 - Principal - East Coast Tour, with Pattie LaBelle
• In Dahomey - New Federal Theatre at the Harry De Jur Playhouse, New York
• Sophisticated Ladies - Starring - US Tour
• National Tai Pai Theatre - Guest Soloist - European Concert
• Changes - Principal - Theatre Delys
• Ovid's Metamorphoses - Principal - Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
• Catch a Rising Star
• Bread, Beans and Things - Co-Star - Aquarius Theatre, Los Angeles
• Black Ballet Jazz - Guest Artist - European Tour
• Black Diamonds - Guest Artist - John Houston Theatre
• I Don't Want to Cry No More
• Deux Anges Sont Venus - Guest Artist - Theatre de Paris
• Sights and Sounds at Carnegie Hall
• Eleo Pomare Dance Company - Guest Artist
• Tribute to Sammmy Davis Jr. - New York
• Trina's Tribute to Duke Ellington - One Person Show

Choreographer

• The Wiz
• Clytemnestra & Agamemnon
• Rumba - Lulu Washington Dance Company
• Golden Globe Awards
• Car Wash movie tour
• "Tribute to the Black Woman" concert
• Carousal

"The website, HollywoodIsCalling.com, is where anyone can make an appointment to speak directly to me. When a 'fan' calls, the representatives book a time that I will phone the 'fan.' Then Hollywood is Calling e-mails me with the information."

Sounds like a great gift . . . or gift for oneself!

Click here to read an item about Trina in Parade magazine.

Click here to play Twenty Questions with Ms. Parks!