Erica Chamblee joins the cast of “Spit”

It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce our first bit of casting for my film “Spit”. Erica Chamblee will be playing the role of “Selma”, Monk-One’s Mother who we see in her younger years. I have known Erica for many years, we trained together at Purchase College Class of 2002 and what I have always loved about her acting is her incredible honesty, I mean I don’t think I have ever seen her give a fake moment and as a Director these are the kind of actors you look for and have to have, they anchor your projects. Erica is also quite a maverick in her own right. I am ecstatic to have her on board! – Mtume Gant

Erica Chamblee is an actress, dancer, and visual artist from Washington, D.C., who studied theater and dance at both Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and in the BFA program at SUNY Purchase. She has performed at many theaters in the D.C. area, including the Kennedy Center, H Street Playhouse and Roundhouse Theater Silver Spring. Erica recently appeared on Showtime and the Sundance Channel as “Kendra” in the film Toe to Toe, in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning Lincoln, and in Netflix’s critically acclaimed hit series, House of Cards as “Cassandra” . She recently performed in Lioness: Pride of America at the Interesctions Arts Festival in D.C. directed by Holly Bass, and served as assistant-choreographer to Ms. Bass for the Department of Public Works Touch Truck Ballet. She has been a company member with Contradiction Dance, a modern dance company based in the D.C. area for three years where she has been featured as a soloist as well as a member of the ensemble. In 2015, she will appear in Cherokee, a new play by Lisa D’Amour at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in D.C.. Erica also has a production company called Soblu Inc. with her sister and will be producing and appearing in a number of films beginning in 2015.