Mecca McQueen

Mecca Dominique Hamilton, known professionally by her stage name Mecca McQueen, was born in Bronx, New York, January 17, 1991. Mecca began her artistic skills at the age of four drawing people. At the age of eleven McQueen moved to Portsmouth, Virginia where she continued to artistically grow. Over the years she created a portfolio that was displayed to enter into the magnet performing arts program at Churchland High School. She was rejected from the art program, but welcomed into the theater program. It was there she tapped into her love for acting on stage. During her years attending Churchland High School she acted in multiple stage plays and excelled in her class allowing the opportunity to direct her first stage play labeling her the first and youngest director in the program. McQueen won an award for "Most Directable Actor" and graduated in 2009, Later attending Norfolk State University as a Mass Communication, Broadcast major. It was here she built skills as a reporter and a TV show host, but left in 2011 after being accepted into Virginia Commonwealth University's Theater performing arts major landing multiple roles in "Danny and The Deep Blue Sea", "Playing with fire" and "Confessions". Mecca left after a year in the program due to struggling with finances and a place to live. Deciding to return to Norfolk State University she landed lead roles in "King Headly" and Seven Guitars". Struggling with finances, but confident with her abilities and knowledge she decided to drop out. After the failure of not landing any roles she decided to tap into her directing skills, creating her own film Company "Raw Diamond Films". She went on to direct short films such as "Monarch Butterfly" and "Passion", becoming well versed in film production, equipment, as well as teaming up with other production companies and directors in Virginia. Mecca McQueen Moved to Atlanta Georgia in 2013 where she landed roles as an extra in "If loving you is Wrong", "Being Mary Jane", and "The Originals". She moved back to Virginia in 2014, where she ended up in a horrible car crash that left her mother and her critically injured. Unable to walk for a year, but extremely determined she took up screen writing with the over all goal to create roles for actors under the raider creating and writing the YouTube show "Another Breaking Performance". A show that gave actors powerful monologues to perform for auditions while giving unseen actors a way to build a video reel. McQueen regained her ability to walk in the summer of 2015 and moved back to Atlanta Georgia. In 2016 Mecca McQueen began teaching acting classes and landed a spot as a TV host for the show "Metro Life".