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Tsehaye Hébert

A Northwestern University graduate, she previously studied with Barbara Ann Teer (National Black Theatre in Harlem) and earned the M.F.A.W. at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where pygMALI, her reimagining of Shaw’s Pygmalion, won the RhinoFest competition. Previous awards: New Voices and Visions Award (Louisiana State University); New Works/New Visions Midwest Playwrights Project (Bedtime Story). Hébert is a Dramatists Guild of America member. She sits on the honorary board of Piven Theatre Workshop (Evanston, Ill.) and interned at Lookingglass Theatre (Chicago). One of 80 poets selected to celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks’ 80th birthday, she has served as an artist and playwright-in-residence, most recently at Chicago State University, where Yvonne, Rhonda and Tracey Spend the Evening Together Again and A Meditation on Violence, a Piece…Peace Yet to Be Named were produced. Other works include Blakk Love:Storeez of a Darker Hue/The Bath (Chameleon Theatre); Bedtime Story (ETA Creative Arts); pygMALI (Prop Theatre); and Elegy for Miss Lucy (M.F.A.W. thesis project). The C.A. Lyons Project is included in the National New Play Network (ATF/Kennedy Center). 

A Northwestern University graduate, she previously studied with Barbara Ann Teer (National Black Theatre in Harlem) and earned the M.F.A.W. at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where pygMALI, her reimagining of Shaw’s Pygmalion, won the RhinoFest competition. Previous awards: New Voices and Visions Award (Louisiana State University); New Works/New Visions Midwest Playwrights Project (Bedtime Story). Hébert is a Dramatists Guild of America member. She sits on the honorary board of Piven Theatre Workshop (Evanston, Ill.) and interned at Lookingglass Theatre (Chicago). One of 80 poets selected to celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks’ 80th birthday, she has served as an artist and playwright-in-residence, most recently at Chicago State University, where Yvonne, Rhonda and Tracey Spend the Evening Together Again and A Meditation on Violence, a Piece…Peace Yet to Be Named were produced. Other works include Blakk Love:Storeez of a Darker Hue/The Bath (Chameleon Theatre); Bedtime Story (ETA Creative Arts); pygMALI (Prop Theatre); and Elegy for Miss Lucy (M.F.A.W. thesis project). The C.A. Lyons Project is included in the National New Play Network (ATF/Kennedy Center).