CEO of DMH Productions, there are trophies aplenty atop her shelf at home as she is the winner of numerous awards from Actor Boy and the Caribbean Hall of Fame to the Bigga High Achievers and Flair Magazine Distinguished Woman Awards, cementing her place in both media and the performing arts. A marketer and studio engineer turned sportscaster for both radio and television, Dahlia Harris presently co-hosts the popular ‘Smile Jamaica It’s Morning Time’ as well as the afternoon radio programme ‘Too Live Crew’ on Radio Jamaica 94FM. Her being a jack of all trades, therefore, is a serious understatement.
The biggest life lesson I have come to accept is not to judge people based on my own experiences and sense of what is fair. …
Dahlia Harris
Her radiant smile is beamed into your living room in the mornings, and on radio her light hearted banter makes you smile as you go about your daily life, because she has a way of not only keeping you engaged and entertained but also putting things into perspective. Indeed, she does not sweat the small stuff since she lives a life filled with heart-warming life lessons, a ‘bankra’ full of love and capacious laughter.
BUZZZ Magazine recently caught up with Dahlia Harris, who has more caps than the keys on a computer, to talk about the professional whirlwind that was a super successful 2019 as well as find out about upcoming projects that are keeping her booked and busy. Writer, producer, director and Pageant franchise holder are just a few of her titles, as Harris has a pot on every burner with some simmering just waiting on the right time to be transformed into something that is entertaining, culturally relevant and thought provoking.
Her current theatrical production ‘Hell & Powder House’, playing at the Jamaica Shopping Club Theatre, is just one of her many current projects. We asked her about the process used to develop her scripts and its various characters because her productions are popular whether they are plays or television series.
“I draw from real-life characters all the time. I write about people that intrigue me. Most of what I pull from is either people’s or my own experiences so I will base characters off of real people but maybe not in its entirety,”
Dahlia Harris
Her genesis in theatre is an interesting story as what should have been a one-off stint on stage, turned into a bonafide immersion as once she got a taste for hearing a live audience laugh, there was no way she was going to stop.
“I was working on TV doing sports when JAMBIZ called to say they were doing the production ‘Children Children’ and they wanted to use non actors and wondered if I would be interested. Of course I said yes and it blossomed from there. Over the years, when there were no plays or roles offered, I decided I wasn’t going to be hungry so I just wrote my own play,” she explained.
Currently, Dahlia Harris juggles a tonne of commitments including the production of the drama ‘Thicker than Water’; the much anticipated next season of the hit series ‘Ring Games 3’; working on the establishment of a weeklong Women in Theatre Festival in March which will showcase the work of phenomenal artistic females plus later in the year, the possibility exists for a Jamaica Gospel Theatre Festival. Her plate is indeed full and fulfilling.
Fulfilment also comes from her involvement with the Miss Jamaica World pageant, which is a perfect platform she empathised, for female empowerment
“I got onboard when Aston Cooke and Weston Haughton invited me to be a part of the committee to do PR and Marketing. After Aston passed I was asked to come on as co-franchise holder. Miss World has changed the way it looks at beauty. Here in Jamaica the contestants come with a project that can range from early childhood to environment etc so it is not just about walking the runway. The international organization removed the beach beauty section as the inches of your waist does not define your character..
Yes, physical beauty is there, but it is the exposure and confidence-building that it fosters that is so amazing. It gives young women from every background a platform to be recognised and reinforced in the fact that they are enough in their own right. We see more women with natural hair, all type of skin tone and a lot are also coming from rural communities. These women are smart, gifted, confident and proud to represent their country,” she related.
Dahlia Harris is always up for a new challenge, and so in 2019, she crossed off another thing from her bucket list as she tried her hand at stand up comedy and that particular bug bit her hard.
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CEO of DMH Productions, there are trophies aplenty atop her shelf at home as she is the winner of numerous awards from Actor Boy and the Caribbean Hall of Fame to the Bigga High Achievers and Flair Magazine Distinguished Woman Awards, cementing her place in both media and the performing arts. A marketer and studio engineer turned sportscaster for both radio and television, Dahlia Harris presently co-hosts the popular ‘Smile Jamaica It’s Morning Time’ as well as the afternoon radio programme ‘Too Live Crew’ on Radio Jamaica 94FM. Her being a jack of all trades, therefore, is a serious understatement.
Her radiant smile is beamed into your living room in the mornings, and on radio her light hearted banter makes you smile as you go about your daily life, because she has a way of not only keeping you engaged and entertained but also putting things into perspective. Indeed, she does not sweat the small stuff since she lives a life filled with heart-warming life lessons, a ‘bankra’ full of love and capacious laughter.
BUZZZ Magazine recently caught up with Dahlia Harris, who has more caps than the keys on a computer, to talk about the professional whirlwind that was a super successful 2019 as well as find out about upcoming projects that are keeping her booked and busy. Writer, producer, director and Pageant franchise holder are just a few of her titles, as Harris has a pot on every burner with some simmering just waiting on the right time to be transformed into something that is entertaining, culturally relevant and thought provoking.
Her current theatrical production ‘Hell & Powder House’, playing at the Jamaica Shopping Club Theatre, is just one of her many current projects. We asked her about the process used to develop her scripts and its various characters because her productions are popular whether they are plays or television series.
Her genesis in theatre is an interesting story as what should have been a one-off stint on stage, turned into a bonafide immersion as once she got a taste for hearing a live audience laugh, there was no way she was going to stop.
“I was working on TV doing sports when JAMBIZ called to say they were doing the production ‘Children Children’ and they wanted to use non actors and wondered if I would be interested. Of course I said yes and it blossomed from there. Over the years, when there were no plays or roles offered, I decided I wasn’t going to be hungry so I just wrote my own play,” she explained.
Currently, Dahlia Harris juggles a tonne of commitments including the production of the drama ‘Thicker than Water’; the much anticipated next season of the hit series ‘Ring Games 3’; working on the establishment of a weeklong Women in Theatre Festival in March which will showcase the work of phenomenal artistic females plus later in the year, the possibility exists for a Jamaica Gospel Theatre Festival. Her plate is indeed full and fulfilling.
Fulfilment also comes from her involvement with the Miss Jamaica World pageant, which is a perfect platform she empathised, for female empowerment
“I got onboard when Aston Cooke and Weston Haughton invited me to be a part of the committee to do PR and Marketing. After Aston passed I was asked to come on as co-franchise holder. Miss World has changed the way it looks at beauty. Here in Jamaica the contestants come with a project that can range from early childhood to environment etc so it is not just about walking the runway. The international organization removed the beach beauty section as the inches of your waist does not define your character..
Yes, physical beauty is there, but it is the exposure and confidence-building that it fosters that is so amazing. It gives young women from every background a platform to be recognised and reinforced in the fact that they are enough in their own right. We see more women with natural hair, all type of skin tone and a lot are also coming from rural communities. These women are smart, gifted, confident and proud to represent their country,” she related.
Dahlia Harris is always up for a new challenge, and so in 2019, she crossed off another thing from her bucket list as she tried her hand at stand up comedy and that particular bug bit her hard.
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