Nala Monét Hamilton

Nala Monét Hamilton is a recent 2024 graduate of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), where her discipline is Musical Theater. Distinguished as one of the highest-ranking scholars at NOCCA, Nala was selected to receive the NOCCA DNA Awards for Professionalism and Collaboration. Additionally, extending her extra-curricular involvement on campus, she serves as the President of the Black Culture Club and was selected as the Assistant Senior Musical Theater Representative for the Student Government Association. Nala is a long-standing member of Uptown Music Theatre and the Teen Council at Le Petit Theater. Nala’s credits include Young Nala in Broadway’s Disney’s The Lion King; Uptown Music Theater Junior Theater Festival productions of James and the Giant Peach, Fiddler on the Roof and The Lion King for which she received an individual All-Star Award; NOCCA productions Little Shop of Horrors, Pippin, and Chicago; Tulane Summer Lyric performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Matilda. TV and film credits include Disney’s Sulphur Springs, Stop and My B.F.F. Nala is the recipient of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Artie Rising Star Award and was a guest speaker for Actors Connection and Broadway Artist Alliance. Exemplary of her social consciousness, Nala founded BLD Music and Motion in 2017. A nonprofit organization, its purpose is to meet the intellectual, social, behavioral, and emotional needs of youth by using the platform of music and artistic expression through orchestrated programming. The organization seeks to educate students interested in Creative Arts. Nala and her family have been members of the New Orleans Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated since 2006. She has participated in numerous community service initiatives, as well as youth leadership seminars and conferences. She currently serves as the Fundraising Chair and Stage Director for the Annual Perspectives in Black History Fashion Show. Formerly, she served the chapter as Parliamentarian and Teen Information Technologies Lead. In continuing her education, Nala will matriculate at Stanford University in the 2024 Autum to continue pursuing her love for the arts. Nala is the proud recipient of the Chase M. Dillon Youth Humanitarian Scholarship Award at Stanford University for which she is most grateful. Nala's future plans include directing, playwriting, and acting in film, television and Broadway productions along with her numerous entrepreneurial endeavors.