Danielle Pinnock- Actor, Playwright, Coach and Co-creator or Hashtag Booked

Danielle Pinnock currently stars in the hit CBS  Comedy, Young Sheldon, the spinoff to the popular, multi-Emmy award  winning television series The Big Bang Theory. The single camera,  half-hour comedy was created by Chuck Lorre and Steve Molaro who  executive produce with Todd Spiewak and Jim Parsons and was recently  renewed for a third and fourth season. Pinnock, a newcomer  to Los Angeles from Chicago, has already shown her star power in  television and in animation. Pinnock has worked alongside Viola Davis  and Kerry Washington in Scandal as well as Ray Romano and Peter  Bogdanovich on Epix’s Get Shorty. Her other television appearances  include: NBC’s critically acclaimed, This Is Us, TV Land’s Teachers,  Comedy Central’s Workaholics. Pinnock is working with DreamWorks and  Cartoon Network on multiple animation projects. . In addition to  her incredible acting ability, Pinnock is also an accomplished  playwright. Her one woman show, Body/Courage, premiered at Rivendell  Theatre Ensemble in Chicago in 2016 and is a tour de force. Through  multiple characters, Pinnock gives voice to the complexity of living and  loving one’s body. Body/Courage was awarded a 2016 TimeOut Theatre  Award and Pinnock received rave reviews with Chicago Reader calling her  performance a “tremendous feat in acting.” Pinnock is a  vocal activist in the body positivity movement. Her written work on body  awareness has been featured on Buzzfeed, Shondaland, National Eating  Disorder Association and other publications. . Pinnock is a  graduate of Temple University and received her MA in Acting with First  Distinction Honors from the Birmingham School of Acting (United  Kingdom). She has studied with famed solo performer and documentary  theater playwright Anna Deavere Smith and is a Bob Curry Fellow with The  Second City. Pinnock is originally from Teaneck, New Jersey and is of  Jamaican-American heritage. She lives in Los Angeles and continues to  write and support diverse artists voices through her company IronPrint  Artists.