ABOUT

The AUDELCO and Obie Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre is artistic anchor to the largest African American community in the nation: Central Brooklyn and one of the last remaining theaters forged in the aesthetic and sociocultural kiln of America’s Civil Rights/Black Arts Movements. Founded in May 1972 by Restoration, The Billie Holiday Theatre is a beacon for world class art rooted in racial justice in the heart of Bed-Stuy: producing, presenting, and commissioning new and classic works and festivals in theater, dance, music, visual arts, and film; providing artistic and institutional residencies; and serving ages 3 to 103 with educational programming. For bold and daring artists and audiences from around the corner and around the world who look to The Billie as a rigorous artistic space that tackles racial injustices, presents new and unapologetic voices, and imagines a world where all people can flourish...welcome home.

Pauletta Pearson Washington, Co-Chair, Actress and Philanthropist
Antonia Yuillie Williams, Co-Chair, Director of Public Affairs, Brooklyn Division Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.
Cey Adams, Internationally renowned creative director and visual artist
Camille Brown, Tony Award-nominated choreographer
Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music; Jerome L Greene Foundation Board Member; Senior Advisor to the Onassis Foundation
Stephen Byrd, Co-Founder, Front Row Productions; 2019 Broadway Global Producer of the Year
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Award-winning actor, professor, and leading expert on August Wilson
Tonya Lewis Lee, American film and television producer, author, entrepreneur and advocate for women
Dawnn Lewis, Award-winning TV, film and Broadway actress, as well as founder of non-profit for youth empowerment
Kamilah Long, Interim Senior Director of Individual Giving & Development Operations, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Kerry McCarthy, Vice President for Philanthropic Initiatives, The New York Community Trust, Mosaic Network and Fund
Dafina McMillan, Co-founder Crux VR
Lynne Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Fiona Rudin, Board Chair, 42nd Street Theaters
Lauren Ruffin, Co-founder Crux VR; nonprofit and for-profit policy, marketing, business development, and strategic planning expert
Carl Hancock Rux, Brooklyn-based, award-winning writer and performance artist
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tony Award-winning Director, leading August Wilson interpreter
Michele Shay, Tony Award-winning actor and director; Professor at NYU, Juilliard, and Columbia
Mikki Shepard, Chairman of the Board, Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Tony Award Nominating Committee (2018-19)
Laura Walker, Former President & CEO, New York Public Radio; Executive Fellow, Yale School of Management
Wendell Pierce, Actor & producer; founder, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation

CHOREOGRAPHERS, FACULTY& GUEST INSTRUCTORS
Contemporary I | Ronald K.Brown, Arcell Cabuag
Ballet I | Courtney Cochran, Elena Comendador, Briana Reed, Angelique Smith
Ballet Accompanist I | Marc Dimillo
Drama I | Lekethia Dalcoe
Graham & Horton I | Aqura Lacey
Hip Hop I | Shayla Caldwell
Horton Modern Contemporary I | Freddie Moore
Modern I | Hollie Wright
West African (Guinea) I | Karen Thornton
West African (Sabar) I | Mama Andara, Brother Ramon Rahman, Baba Wali
West African Accompanist I | Brother Talu Green
ART INSTITUTIONS-IN-RESIDENCE
Black Arts Institute in partnership with Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence: A Dance Company
Noel Pointer Institute
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance
CHOREOQUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS-IN-RESIDENCE
Nathan Trice and Edisa Weeks

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