With over 20 years of experience, Fatima Quander is an accomplished professional actor, director, theatre-maker, and proud member of both Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). She has performed with Theater Alliance, Voices Festival Productions, FRESHH Inc. Theatre Company, DC Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Rep Stage, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage Education, Theater of the First Amendment, the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Discovery Theater; she has also performed in house and on tour with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Additionally, she has appeared in a number of national and regional commercials including Toyota, Under Armour and Dick’s Sporting Goods, DC Health Link, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Navy Federal Credit Union (among others).

Quander is an Assistant Professor of Acting in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and is the 2025 recipient of the Uta Hagen Award from the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and the American College Theatre Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As a teaching artist, Quander works with a number of theatres and programs throughout the Washington, DC area including Folger Shakespeare Library’s McKee Fellows Program and Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, FRESHH Inc.’s Griot Girls, Everyman Theatre, Poetry Out Loud, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Sitar Arts Center, Jr. Discovery at Georgetown University, and Young Playwrights' Theater. She received her M.F.A. in Acting from Actors Studio Drama School at New School University in New York City and her B.A. in Theatre Arts, Acting Concentration from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.