Zuri Wilson-Seymore Wilson-Seymore

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ABOUT ZURI WILSON-SEYMORE WILSON-SEYMORE

Zuri Wilson-Seymore, MA is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. She is a poet, actress, Yogi, and Executive Director & Founder of a cultural arts event called “Zuri’s Parallel Worlds.” Zuri has been writing poetry since the age of 13. She found her niche in acting at Winthrop University. In she studied theater at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY. She received her bachelor’s degree in theatre with an emphasis in performance arts from Winthrop University in 2001. In 2004 Zuri was casted for the first local sitcom, called “Metro” in Columbia, SC. In 2012 she became a vendor for the Richland County Library and has directed and co-produced the Black History Month Productions of Voices of Our People as a collaborative production of Zuri’s Parallel Worlds. She has also worked with the youth to enhance their literacy in writing and poetry workshops under The City of Columbia and at C.A. Johnson, High School. Her mission is to create harmony amongst a myriad of cultures, backgrounds, and walks of life through the universal appeal of artistic expressions such as visual art, artistic dancing, and poetry, music of all genres, and, literacy, poetry and theater workshops. She released her debut album, “Zuri’s Parallel Worlds,” August of 2007. In 2007 she directed the video to her single titled, “She,” which a DVD derived from. In September of 2013 she married Nathaniel Seymore. In 2013 she became a Sakhi Yogi student. In 2016 she graduated from Grad School with honors at SNHU. She studied Creative Writing and consistently writes poetry about her late father, Barry Wilson who she inherits all of her talents from. She became the SC Poetry Out Loud Coordinator Oct. 2017 - June 2919. “I believe the energy that we put into the universe is the energy we shall receive. I also believe it’s important to be patient, spiritually grounded, and focused. The sky is even limitless, and I will continue to reach surpass the stars,” gestures Zuri.