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Deletta Gillespie is a multi-disciplinary teaching and performing artist, playwright, author, and singer/songwriter. Currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Morgan State University, Gillespie earned a BA in Liberal Arts from Goddard College, and an MFA in Theatre Arts at Towson University. She also studied Musical Theatre performance at Highline College in Seattle, electronic media at the University of Oklahoma, and Creative Writing with the Writers Bureau in the UK.

Gillespie is also a playwright, and has written plays including First Encounters of the Discriminatory Kind, and What a Girl Wants. Her play U-Turn received an honorable mention in Seattle’s Stone Soup Theatre’s Double X Playwrights Festival. Additionally, she has created and performs two cabaret shows: Good and Yummy, and Songs of Protest – Songs of Peace. 

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Gillespie is an accomplished vocalist and has released a collection of songs on an album entitled Triumphant. She has opened for artists including Daryl Davis, Patti Austin, the late Al Jarreau, and British music icons Paul Carrack and Judi Tzuke.

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Gillespie was the director of the music ministry at The Spiritual Empowerment Center (CSL) in Baltimore for seven years, and was the featured musician and speaker at the Centers for Spiritual Living in Laurel, MD for three years. She currently serves as the director of the music ministry at Unity of Gaithersburg. 

She is a member of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and SAG/AFTRA, the Baltimore Blues Society, and the National Association of Black Storytellers.