AMERICAN THEATRE | Shermona Mitchell Named Sound Theatre Co-Artistic Director

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AMERICAN THEATRE | Shermona Mitchell Named Sound Theatre Co-Artistic Director


Shermona Mitchell and Teresa Thuman.

SEATTLE: Sound Theatre Company has introduced that Shermona Mitchell will start serving as the corporate’s co-artistic director starting Jan. 1, 2023. Mitchell, the present affiliate creative director at Seattle Public Theater, will serve alongside Sound Theatre’s founding creative director, Teresa Thuman.

“As we head into the new year, I am thrilled about this extraordinary opportunity and am appreciative of the many ways Sound Theatre has continuously bolstered my artistic growth,” mentioned Mitchell, who will step down as Sound Theatre’s chair of the board to serve on this new function, in a press release. “Serving as board chair has been an invaluable opportunity for me as I look back on my time of being in service to artistic practitioners and uplifting artistic pathways.”

Sound Theatre’s board vice chairman Andrea Kovich will succeed Mitchell as chair of the board.

Mitchell first got here to Sound Theatre as an actor in …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, a 2015 co-production with Brownbox Theatre. They obtained Gregory Awards for his or her performances in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot in 2016 and Citizen: An American Lyric in 2019, and served as a director for staged readings and an assistant director for productions. They have additionally tailored literary works for the stage with Book-It Repertory Theatre. As the primary Black girl to function chair of the board, Mitchell established an artists’ job drive and wrote Sound Theatre’s new code of conduct.

Sound Theatre adopted a collective management mannequin in 2020 when Jay Woods was appointed co-artistic director. Woods is now serving because the affiliate creative director of artist engagement on the fifth Avenue Theatre.

“This past year without Jay revealed shared leadership’s essential importance,” Thuman mentioned in a press release. Returning to a shared management mannequin will “formally vest Shermona with power to shape our organization’s aesthetics and culture.”

Sound Theatre Company strives to empower artists to provide voice to the dignity and variety of the human expertise and to maneuver audiences towards a extra simply and compassionate world. Founded in 2006, Sound Theatre has constructed a neighborhood of greater than 400 artists. As of 2021, the theatre had a funds of roughly $427,700.

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