The Alliance nurtures the careers of playwrights and artists through programs like the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition and the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, and has developed and premiered important American musicals with a strong track record of Broadway, touring and subsequent productions, including The Color Purple Aida Bring it On: The Musical and Tuck Everlasting. The Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department reaches 50,000 students annually through performances, classes, camps, and in-school initiatives including the Palefsky Collision Project and the Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director, the Alliance received the Regional Theatre Tony Award for sustained excellence in programming, education and community engagement. THE ALLIANCE THEATER, founded in 1968, is the leading producing theatre in the Southeast, reaching more than 165,000 patrons annually. Regional credits include work with Sundance Theatre Lab, Yale Repertory, Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe. Off-Broadway credits include Here Lies Love, Old Jews Telling Jokes and Love, Loss and What I Wore. Casting) How to Succeed… Promises, Promises A Little Night Music Billy Elliot Shrek Guys and Dolls The Farnsworth Invention Young Frankenstein The Little Mermaid Mary Poppins My Fair Lady Pirate Queen Spamalot Jersey Boys …Spelling Bee The Producers Mamma Mia! The Phantom of the Opera and Contact. Zhivago School of Rock Gigi It Shoulda Been You Aladdin Bullets over Broadway Mothers and Sons Les Misérables Big Fish The Heiress Ghost One Man, Two Guvnors (U.S. Selected Broadway/national tour credits include Dr. TARA RUBIN ( New York Casting Director)’s Arena Stage credits include Sweat, Dear Evan Hansen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Other Desert Cities, Ruined and A Time to Kill. He produced and wrote the Showtime series Linc’s. TV credits include directing the new series Greenleaf, Lincoln Heights, South of Nowhere, the “Freestyle” soccer campaign for Nike and BeBe Winans’ special America America. He directed the award-winning film Preaching to the Choir and has written screenplays for HBO, Showtime, Disney and FOX. Charles also co-wrote Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. Additional directing credits include the opera Porgy and Bess, Love/Life (starring Brian Stokes Mitchell), Through the Night (starring Daniel Beaty) and They’re Playing Our Song (in Portuguese in Brazil). He directed Motown The Musical on Broadway, the national tour and in London. ( Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: /bebewinans CHARLES RANDOLPH-WRIGHTĬHARLES RANDOLPH-WRIGHT ( Book, Director) is an inaugural resident playwright at Arena Stage where he premiered his plays Love in Afghanistan, Blue and Cuttin’ Up and directed Akeelah and the Bee Sophisticated Ladies and Guys and Dolls (both starring Maurice Hines) Oak and Ivy Anthems Señor Discretion Himself and Ruined. Bebe is also ambassador for Metro World Child, a Christian humanitarian organization that reaches 150,000 children around the world, including the United States, every week. Teaming with his younger sister Priscilla “CeCe,” the duo first began crossing lines as “adopted children” of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on the television show Praise the Lord, and together they have nine successful gold and platinum recordings. His seven solo albums feature guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston and members of the Winans family. BeBe is a multi-faceted artist with film, TV and Broadway credits and can be heard every Sunday on “The BeBe Experience” on Sirius XM’s Heart & Soul channel. Over his distinguished career, he has amassed six Grammy Awards (three solo which includes Producer for Record of the Year for The Bodyguard Soundtrack, and three with his sister CeCe), ten Dove Awards, six Stellar Awards, four NAACP Award and three Soul Train Music Awards. BENJAMIN “BEBE” WINANS ( Book, Original Music and Lyrics), the inspirational R&B and gospel vocalist, songwriter and producer, was born into the legendary Winans family, the first family of gospel music.
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