Rain Pryor is a dynamic speaker and spokesperson; she is an award winning actress, a singer, a writer, a comedian and a producer. Now that's quite a few hats to wear but they all fit and every one of them reflects her eclectic mix of Judaism and her African American roots.

"Fried Chicken and Latkes" which is based on her life, is a funny and poignant affirmation to remove the world of race and class and look at the human within. She has also headlined as a comedian at comedy clubs and the famous Comedy Store on the Sunset strip.

2005 began with 4 NAACP Theatre Award nominations, Best Female Performer Equity, Best Original Playwright Equity, Best Direction, Best Sound Design and won the award for Best Female Performer Equity at the NAACP awards on February 21, 2005. Rain was recently named the recipient of the 2005 Invisible Theatre's ‘Goldie Klein Guest Artist Award’. In 2004 Rain was nominated for Best Solo Performance in the Los Angeles version of the Tony's called the Ovation Awards, after a highly successful run of her one woman experience "Fried Chicken & Latkes".

Rain played to sold out crowds and standing ovations every night at the 375 seat Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA, and repeated that success at the Culture Project in New York; for the Women's Center Stage Festival. The audiences and the standing ovations just kept on coming as Rain performed her show all over the country in 2004 and 2005 including the world famous Hippodrome in Baltimore, MD.

She speaks around the country on themes of Unity, family and Judaism, bringing a unique and touching story to her talks.

In addition, Rain is an MS Lifelines Ambassador sponsored by Serono Biotechnologies. Her commitment to fight for a cure of Multiple Sclerosis has her hosting and speaking around the country to educate Family and Friends about MS treatment options and therapies, in honor of her dad.

Rain has been a working actor all her life who started on stage and made her television debut in 1989 as series regular T.J. on the hit ABC series Head of The Class. The character of T.J. was taken from one of Rain's characters that she presented to the ABC producers in her audition. Rain also starred for several years opposite Sherilyn Fenn and Lynn Redgrave, as Jackie, the lipstick lesbian drug addict on the Showtime series Rude Awakening. She has guest starred on shows such as The Division, Chicago Hope ( with her father Richard Pryor) She has appeared in numerous independent features as well as Universal Pictures release of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and the ground breaking Melvin Van Peebles Film, Panther.

Rain has also performed in the Los Angeles production of Eve Ensler's, Vagina Monologues at the Coronet Theatre, Cookin' With Gas, with the Groundlings improvisation troupe, The Who's Tommy at the La Jolla Playhouse; The staring role of Joan at the Globe Playhouse, Westside Story and Runaways, and Sisterella, which earned Rain in 1994 a nomination from the NAACP Theatre Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Equity.

She’s One of a Kind!