A Seat at the Table—and in Her Living Room
D. Woods returns to the stage on June 28, 2025, when her deeply personal, genre-fusing solo performance My Living Room Self returns to Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City.
If you think you know D. Woods, think again. The world may have first met her as part of the multi-platinum group Danity Kane, but the artist formerly confined to and known by the boundaries of reality TV is busting down walls and redefining what it means to truly own your story.
This June 28th, the singer, writer, actress, and dancer, returns to Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater with her most intimate and electrifying work to date. More than a show, My Living Room Self is an excavation. A calling-in. A hybrid of dance, theater, music, and visual storytelling, the one-woman show dares to bare all—gracefully, fiercely, and without apology.
It is the spiritual sequel to her 2021 semi-autobiographical debut My Favorite Color: Trouble In Paradise, but this time, she invites us not just into her world, but into her living room. And if you’re brave enough, you’ll show up with open eyes and an open heart. A soul-stirring communion, if you’re lucky enough to be in that room. You won’t just be a spectator. You’ll be a participant. On June 28, D. Woods isn’t just putting on a show—she’s opening a door. For all who’ve ever been mischaracterized, silenced, or simplified, My Living Room Self offers a balm and a battle cry.
“It’s the culmination of everything I’ve lived, learned, and unlearned,” Woods reflects. “It’s the freest I’ve ever felt on stage.”
How to Experience My Living Room Self:
Date: June 28, 2025
In Person: Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, NYC
publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/d.-woods
Not in NYC on June 28th? That’s fine, D. Woods will extend her living room into yours with global live stream access.
Global Live Stream – Watch from Anywhere!
https://dwoodsmylivingroomself.eventbrite.com
From Center Stage to Sacred Space
To understand the magnitude of what My Living Room Self represents, one must first appreciate the layers that make up D. Woods. She is not new to the game—she is seasoned, sharpened, and gloriously self-made.
Though she rose to national fame as a founding member of the chart-dominating pop/R&B girl group Danity Kane, Woods has always been more than her Billboard hits. Behind the scenes, she was a dancer, choreographer, writer, and classically trained actress long before MTV cameras ever captured her.
D. Woods – Wanita Denise Woodgett—has been living and breathing performance since age three, with training that reads like a syllabus of the performing arts elite: Tri-Cities High School for Visual and Performing Arts and the renowned Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta.
Her teenage years were spent chasing excellence at Alvin Ailey intensives, and she later perfected her fusion of intellect and artistry at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Gallatin School, studying acting and dance abroad in Havana, Cuba.
“Art has always been more than entertainment for me,” she says. “It’s how I process, how I inspire, how I resist, how I heal.”
Woods’ artistic résumé is not just impressive—it’s rooted in reverence. Her Broadway debut came in the form of the seven-time Tony-nominated revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf— as,”Lady in Yellow”, an historic and sacred work that she calls “a rite of passage.”
Shortly thereafter, she stunned critics and audiences alike in (Pray): A Sacred Offering, winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and Ensemble. She’s treaded the hallowed boards of Off-Broadway in Marcus Gardley’s Black Odyssey and performed under the direction of Tony-winning powerhouse Kenny Leon in Holla If Ya Hear Me. From the Guggenheim to the deep South, from primetime television in Amazon Prime’s Harlem, CBS’ The Equalizer, or the BET drama Tales, to grassroots theater. Woods plays every role with a level of emotional intelligence that’s rare and refreshing. She has quietly—yet relentlessly—built a career on excellence and intention.
Her artistry is not just technical, it’s deeply human.
As a Black woman in an industry that often prioritizes spectacle over substance, D. Woods has insisted on both.
D. Woods’ work is steeped in the richness and complexity of Black womanhood’s — she refuses to flatten the Black feminine experience. Instead, she expands it, centers it, and celebrates it.
Her storytelling is multi-sensory: equal parts movement, music, monologue, and metaphor. “I create work that invites the audience to see themselves,” she says. “To not just watch, but witness. To not just hear, but to heal.”
Creator, Center, and Catalyst
In a cultural era that yearns for authenticity, Woods’ work feels both timeless and radical. My Living Room Self centers Black womanhood—not as a monolith, but as a multidimensional, contradictory, and utterly human experience. It leans into joy, sorrow, silence, and sound. It is not curated for comfort; it is designed for communion. As much as the piece is about her, it’s also about the broader community. The audience is not simply there to consume, but to participate. Woods invites viewers to reflect on their own internal dialogues, cultural inheritances, and emotional blind spots. You do not walk out the same person you were when you entered. And that’s by design.
“This is me, beyond the headlines. This is the voice I had to fight for.”
D. Woods is making more than art. She’s holding space. And on June 28th, she’s inviting us all to step into it.
To hear more from D. Woods and her unapologetic voice? Follow her across social platforms:
Linktr.ee/Dwoods
Instagram/Twitter/TikTok: @YaGirlDWoods
My Living Room Self tickets are on sale now.
In Person: Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, NYC
publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/d.-woods
Not in NYC on June 28th? That’s fine, D. Woods will extend her living room into yours with global live stream access.
Global Live Stream – Watch from Anywhere!
https://dwoodsmylivingroomself.eventbrite.com
About D. Woods
D. Woods is a multi-hyphenate artist whose career spans music, theater, dance, and film. She made her Broadway debut in the seven-time Tony-nominated revival of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, and earned the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and Ensemble for her performance in (Pray): A Sacred Offering Off-Broadway.
Widely recognized as a founding member of the multi-platinum pop/R&B group Danity Kane, D. Woods is also an accomplished dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, and actress—skills she has cultivated since the age of three.
Her early training includes Atlanta’s Tri-Cities High School for Visual and Performing Arts, the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, and the Alvin Ailey School’s Intensive Program. She went on to study at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Acting Program, participated in NYU’s Study Abroad Dance Program in Havana, Cuba, and earned her Bachelor of Arts from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
In 2009, she launched her independent label, WOODGRANE ENTERTAINMENT, earning consecutive placements on the Grammy Nomination ballot.
Her theatrical credits include Holla If You Hear Me (directed by Kenny Leon), Prurience at The Guggenheim Museum (dir. Christopher Green), and Marcus Gardley’s Black Odyssey (Off-Broadway, dir. Stevie Walker-Webb).
On screen, she has appeared in Harlem (Amazon Prime), The Equalizer (CBS), Stuck With You (ALLBLK), Tales (BET), and the award-winning film Blackbird (directed by Patrick Ian-Polk).
In 2021, D. Woods premiered her semi-autobiographical one-woman show, My Favorite Color: Trouble In Paradise, in Atlanta. The production laid the foundation for her latest original work, My Living Room Self, which debuted at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in 2024 and is set to return in June 2025.
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