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SUMMARY:Before Play: EVERYBODY
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Susan V. Booth and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden  \nPrior to 7:30pm performance\nEvent Room\, 2nd Floor // Woodruff Arts Center \nJoin us for a brief pre-show discussion with Susan V. Booth and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden\, co-directors of Everybody. Before Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. Get tickets for the SEP 8\, 7:30pm performance of Everybody. \n  \n \nSusan V. Booth (Jennings Hertz Artistic Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001 and has initiated the Palefsky Collision Project for teens\, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition\, the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab\, local producing partnerships and regional collaborative productions\, as well as commercial partnerships on projects such as The Prom; Tuck Everlasting; Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in ’da Noise\, Bring in ’da Funk; and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL\, and has directed world premieres by writers including Pearl Cleage\, Janece Shaffer\, National Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey\, Stephen King\, John Mellencamp\, and Kristian Bush. As a director\, she has worked at such theatres as the Goodman\, La Jolla Playhouse\, New York Stage and Film\, Actors Theatre of Louisville\, Northlight Theatre\, Victory Gardens\, Court Theatre and many others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute and the Kemper Foundation. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern\, DePaul\, and Emory universities. She is a past president of the board of directors for the Theatre Communications Group\, the national service organization for the field\, is a trustee of Denison University\, and a member of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors. Susan’s leadership is underwritten by the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle\, an initiative to support and promote women’s theater leadership funded by The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation. Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal. \n  \n \nTinashe Kajese-Bolden (Co-Director) Award-Winning Director\, Actor\, Producer. She is the BOLD Artistic Director Fellow at the Alliance Theater and driven to create stories that celebrate our differences while building community. Tinashe is a Princess Grace 2019 Award Winner for Directing\, and Map Fund Award recipient to develop her devised new work ALL SMILES for Theater for the Very Young\, centering the experience of children on the Autism Spectrum. Recent theatre directing productions include School Girls (Or the African Mean Girls Play) at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre\, Ghost at The Alliance Theater\, Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company)\, Pipeline(Horizon Theater)\, Nick’s Flamingo Grill (World Premiere at The Alliance Theatre\, Hertz Stage)\, Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre\, Best Director Suzi Bass Award). Upcoming projects: Lydia Diamond’s ‘Toni Stone’ at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and The Alliance Theatre\, and Candrice Jone’s ‘Flex’ at Theatrical Outfit for their 2021-22 Season. As a director and actor\, she has worked On + Off Broadway\, including The Imperial Theatre\, Primary Stages\, 59E59 Theatre\, Classical Theatre of Harlem; and regionally at Yale Rep\, Woolly Mammoth Theater Co\, Cincinnati Playhouse\, The Geva Theatre\, CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre\, among others\, as well as recurring roles on TV/Film (Suicide Squad\, Marvel’s Hawkeye\, CW’s Valor\, Dynasty\, HBO’s Henrietta Lacks and currently filming Season 2 of Ava Duverney’s Cherish the Day.) She proudly serves on the ARTS-ATL Artist Advisory Council “My mission is the pursuit of what connects our different communities and how we create art that serves that.” \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/before-play-everybody/
LOCATION:Woodruff Arts Center\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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