![]() Dee Dee received her MFA in acting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she spent three years as a company member of PlayMakers Repertory Company.Īdrien-Alice Hansel (she/her) is the Literary Director at Studio, where she has dramaturged the world premieres of John Proctor is the Villain, I Hate it Here, Queen of Basel, No Sisters, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses, among others, as well as productions of English People, Places & Things Heroes of the Fourth Turning The Hot Wing King White Noise Tender Age Flow Until the Flood 2.5 Minute Ride Cry It Out Translations Curve of Departure Wig Out! Straight White Men Hedda Gabler Jumpers for Goalposts Bad Jews (twice) The Apple Family Cycle and Invisible Man among others. In addition to acting, Dee Dee is a writer: her self-produced one-woman show No AIDS, No Maids enjoyed a successful run at the Capital Fringe Festival, where it received the Capital Fringe Honors for Favorite Show of Fringe and Favorite Solo Performance. She is also a proud alumni of Ball State (2007). She is currently adjunct acting faculty for Ball State University’s BFA program, where she teaches courses in beginning acting, auditioning, and one-person shows. Television credits include Chicago Fire, Shining Girls, and Chicago Med. ĭee Dee Batteast’s (she/her) recent regional credits include A Christmas Carol and Ohio State Murders at the Goodman Theatre and Detroit ‘67 at the Clarence Brown Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Farmers Alley Theatre, and Indiana Repertory Theatre. She is an alumna of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and New York University. ![]() Candis’s fellowships and awards include Women’s Project Theater Lab, Drama League Director's Fellowship, and the 2016 Lilly Award. ![]() She recently served as the Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway. Her selected credits include Cullud Wattah and Shadow/Land at The Public Theater, School Girls or, The African Mean Girls Play at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Detroit ’67 at Signature Theatre, Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Plays at Williamstown Theatre Festival, 53% Of at the Alliance Theatre, Bitch at Productions, Everybody at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The House of the Negro Insane at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Pipeline at Detroit Public Theatre, The Wolves at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Brother Rabbit at the New Black Fest, Name Calling at The Kennedy Center Page to Stage, morning in America at Primary Stages, and TEMBO! at the Zanzibar International Film Festival. Jones is a New York-based theater director and former Washingtonian. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, and an Associate Professor of Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts.Ĭandis C. Her many awards include a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, a William Inge Theater Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award, and she was an honoree at the inaugural Black Women on Broadway award ceremony. Her other work includes the musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees at Atlantic Theater Company Mlima’s Tale at The Public Theater By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Drama Desk Nomination) at Second Stage and Signature Theatre Company Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Manhattan Theatre Club and the Goodman Theatre Intimate Apparel (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play) at Baltimore Center Stage and Roundabout Theatre Company and Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Obie Award) at Playwrights Horizons and Signature Theatre Company, as well as Crumbs from the Table of Joy Las Meninas Mud, River, Stone Por’knockers and POOF! She was a writer and producer on the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It (directed by Spike Lee) and a consulting producer on the third season of Dickinson (Apple TV+). On Broadway, Lynn’s plays include MJ the Musical (Tony nomination), Clyde’s (Tony nomination), an opera adaptation of her play Intimate Apparel (commissioned by and performed at the Met/Lincoln Center Theater), and Sweat (Pulitzer Prize Obie Award). She is the first, and remains the only, woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. ![]()
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