Director

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Kajese-Bolden

Jennings HertzArtistic Director, Alliance Theatre. Select directing credits: World premieres of Furlough’s Paradise, Nick’s Flamingo Grill, Ghost (Alliance Theatre); 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. Up next, she is directing The Preacher’s Wife, a new musical with Michael Arden by Tituss Burgess and Azie Dungey and a new opera Forsythe County Is Flooding by Adamma Ebo and Marcus Norris. Directing awards include the Princess Grace Award, Zelda Fichandler Finalist, Suzi Bass Award, and MAP Fund Award. “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.”