Tinashe Kajese-Bolden is a multi-award-winning artistic leader, director and actor who plants her deep passion for service at the intersection of artistic innovation, dignified education and community empowerment to inspire new possibilities. Kajese-Bolden is the Jennings Hertz Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre, a Zelda Fichlander Finalist, a Princess Grace Award 2019 Winner for Directing, and Map Fund Award recipient to develop her devised new work All Smiles centering the experience of children on the Autism Spectrum. Select directing credits: Upcoming world premiere of Like Father, a new musical, and Dictionary of a Vulgar Tongue; select world premiere credits include the modern opera Forsythe County Is Flooding by Adamma Ebo and Marcus Norris; The Preacher’s Wife Musical composed by Tituss Burgess; Furlough’s Paradise (including West Coast Premiere at The Geffen Playhouse), Nick’s Flamingo Grill, Ghost (Alliance Theatre); Regional productions include Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop; Toni Stone (Milwaukee Rep and Alliance Theatre); School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre); Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company); Pipeline (Horizon Theatre Company); Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre); among others. As a director and actor, Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Imperial Theatre, Primary Stages, 59E59 Theaters, The Classical Theatre of Harlem; regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geva Theatre Center, Kirk Douglas Theatre; with recurring TV/Film roles in Strays, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, The Suicide Squad, Marvel’s Hawkeye, CW’s Valor, Dynasty, HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Ava DuVernay’s Cherish the Day, among others. My mission is the pursuit of what connects our different communities and how we create art that liberates us to imagine a more inclusive future.
Tinashe Kajese-Bolden is a multi-award-winning artistic leader, director and actor who plants her deep passion for service at the intersection of artistic innovation, dignified education and community empowerment to inspire new possibilities. Kajese-Bolden is the Jennings Hertz Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre, a Zelda Fichlander Finalist, a Princess Grace Award 2019 Winner for Directing, and Map Fund Award recipient to develop her devised new work All Smiles centering the experience of children on the Autism Spectrum. Select directing credits: Upcoming world premiere of Like Father, a new musical, and Dictionary of a Vulgar Tongue; select world premiere credits include the modern opera Forsythe County Is Flooding by Adamma Ebo and Marcus Norris; The Preacher’s Wife Musical composed by Tituss Burgess; Furlough’s Paradise (including West Coast Premiere at The Geffen Playhouse), Nick’s Flamingo Grill, Ghost (Alliance Theatre); Regional productions include Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop; Toni Stone (Milwaukee Rep and Alliance Theatre); School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre); Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company); Pipeline (Horizon Theatre Company); Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre); among others. As a director and actor, Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Imperial Theatre, Primary Stages, 59E59 Theaters, The Classical Theatre of Harlem; regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geva Theatre Center, Kirk Douglas Theatre; with recurring TV/Film roles in Strays, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, The Suicide Squad, Marvel’s Hawkeye, CW’s Valor, Dynasty, HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Ava DuVernay’s Cherish the Day, among others. My mission is the pursuit of what connects our different communities and how we create art that liberates us to imagine a more inclusive future.