Shawn René Graham

Formerly the literary and education associate of the Hartford Stage Company, where she produced the VOICES! Reading Series, she worked with many writers, including Kia Corthron, Nilo Cruz, Eduardo Machado, Walter Mosley, Lynn Nottage, and John Henry Redwood. Her production work includes The Colored Museum (1996), … Love, Langston (1997), Happy Days (1997), Digging Eleven (1998), and Dutchman (2000). Recent work includes an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters produced by the Prospect Theatre Company (2002), production dramaturgy for the Errol Grimes Dance Group, and several contributions to African Society from A to Z  published by Sage in 2005. Ms. Graham holds a BA in theater from the California State University, Los Angeles, and is a 1996 graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, where she studied dramaturgy.