Tamilla Woodard is a resident director at Yale Repertory Theater, Chair of the Acting Program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and the co-founder of the site specific international partnership, PopUP Theatrics. Previously, Tamilla served as the inaugural BOLD Associate Artistic Director at WP Theater and co-Artistic Director of the Working Theatre in New York. Tamilla also served as the associate director of the Tony Award-winning Hadestown on Broadway in its premier season. Tamilla has directed at theaters nationally and internationally, including at WP Theater, Alliance Theatre, the Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Classical Theater of Harlem, and The Atlantic Theater, among others. Recent highlights include Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at The Folger Theater in DC; Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home at Yale Rep; the site-specific work The Democracy Project at Federal Hall written by Tanya Barfield, Lisa D’Amour, Larissa FastHorse, Melissa James Gibson, Michael R. Jackson and Bruce Norris; Gab Reisman’s Spindle, Shuttle, Needle for Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks and Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at the Guthrie. www.tamilla.com/index
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