Shalita Grant

Most well known as NCIS Special Agent Sonja Percy on NCIS: New Orleans, Grant's earlier theater work includes The Public Theater's 2010 productions of Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and The Merchant of Venice.

Grant originated the role of Cassandra in Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike since the beginning of the show's development as a one-act play.[10] She performed alongside Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Genevieve Angelson, and Billy Magnussen in the world-premiere at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ from September to October 2012 before moving to the Lincoln Center Theatre in an off-Broadway run October 2012 to January 2013. The show's success continued with a Broadway run and Grant's Broadway debut March through August 2013.

In 2012, she appeared in The Philanderer for the off-Broadway Pearl Theatre Company and the world-premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's play Luck of the Irish at the Huntington Theatre Company.

Grant was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2013 for her performance as Cassandra in the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The play won the Tony for Best Play as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. She also won the 2013 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.

She returned to The Public Theater in 2017 for the Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.