Latrelle Bright

(PERFORMER/COLLABORATING WRITER, she/her) is a theatre maker, professor and arts advocate rooted in the Champaign-Urbana community.  Past directing credits include Cabaret, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and No Child (Illinois Theatre), Dreamgirls (KCPA),  Men on Boats, Fun Home, Sleep Deprivation Chamber (The Station Theatre), Top Dog/Underdog (Hattiloo Theatre), Otherwise Occupied and Lost Recipes (Jump Start Performance Company) and Spell #7 and Betrayal (The Renaissance Guild).  Her interest in storytelling extends beyond traditional plays and musicals with interests in social justice and the environment.  Projects include: co-producer of The Gun Play(s) Project with Nicole Anderson-Cobb, PhD; The Water Project, devised with eight local community members and Journey to Water, connecting African Americans with regional water sources, a collaboration with Prairie Rivers Network through a Catalyst Initiative Grant from the Center for Performance and Civic Practice.  Recently she engaged in an interdisciplinary devised project about the quantum world with Smitha Vishveshwara, PhD, Quantum Voyages that premiered on campus, traveled to Boston for the American Physical Society Conference and collaborated in a Zoom production with UC San Diego.  She co-directed This is the Ground for Opera on Tap NYC with Jerre Dye at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  Latrelle received her MFA in Directing from The University of Memphis, is a TCG Young Leader of Color and an Associate Member of Stage Director’s and Choreographers Society.