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Tamilla Woodard is a Director, Actor and Adapter. As director, editor and Adapter she has collaborated with artist in the formation of their solo shows, in the development of documentary theatre pieces and the adaptation of non theatrical material to the stage.

As a director, her most recent credits include Alfonso Cárcamo’s DECOMPOSITION at The Lark Playwrights Development Center and for The City Parks Theatre Festival. She is currently developing a dual language version with both the Mexico City company and the New York company to be presented in 2010.

This coming season, through a residency at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, she will be devising a one hour ODYSSEY based on Homer for July premier. In addition she is currently preparing a workshop performance of the extraordinary new American Opera: Ellen Craft, about one of the most fantastical slave escapes of all time.

As a director, Tamilla has developed the solo shows of many artists including Carlos Andrés Gómez’s multiple festival, multiple award winning MAN UP, Micia Mosley’s NYIT award nominated Where My Girls At  and Sherry Boone’s Super Star Artist Show. She has had the pleasure of working with Eve Ensler on several occasions namely on Necessary Targets with Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Kerry Washington and Lynn Cohen at the Women, Power and Peace conference. She has directed at The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Culture Project, Urban Stages, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen Theatre, Manhattan Class Company and for festivals around the US and internationally.

Her work has won best of festival awards, audience favorite awards, Top 10 Shows to See citations, New York Innovative Theatre nominations and critical acclaim in The New York Times, Variety and others.

As an actress, she has worked at The Humana Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Center, Prospect theatre Company and  Women’s Project and in numerous commercial, TV and Film. Most recently Tamilla was seen by worldwide viewers performing Chantal Bilodeau translation of Koffi Kwahulé Jaz for the Internationalists Around the World in 24 Hours Festival.

Tamilla is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, former artistic director of the Yale Cabaret (under Tamilla’s leadership it was voted Best Small Theatre in New Haven for the first time in it’s long history), alumnus of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Women’s Project leadership council and on the Board of Directors for TerraNOVA Collective. New Dramatist honored her last season with The Charles Bowden Award.

She is a founding member of The Internationalists - a collective of directors from around the world creating an interactive global theatrical community,  co-founder of Launch, a theatrical venture that develops the work of phenomenal solo artists and an adjunct professor teaching solo performance at City College’s Center for Worker Education.