Donya K. Washington

Donya K. Washington

(she/her/hers)

Director of Repertory Producing

Co-Lead Producer, Macbeth; Lead Producer, Lizard Boy, Jane Eyre, Coriolanus

In eight seasons at OSF: Lead Producer, Rent, The Three Musketeers, Once on This Island, How I Learned What I Learned, The Tempest, Confederates; Producing Assistant, Community. Directing: a reading of King Margaret by Tira Palmquist (5 Directors, 5 Plays), Pearl Sings the Blues by Vivia Font (Midnight Project), OSF Presents: Fill in the Blank by Claudia Alick. Other theatres: BOLD Associate Producer and Off Site Season Producer, Alliance Theatre. Directing: the ripple the wave that carried me home (People’s Light Theatre); Breakfast at the Bookstore by Lisa Langford (Ashland New Plays Festival); Shutter Sisters by Mansa Ra (Old Globe); Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck, An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Actor’s Express); Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan, adapted by Theroun D’arcy Patterson with music by Eugene Russell III (Alliance Theatre, Theatre for the Very Young); Eve’s Song by Patricia Ione Lloyd (workshop, The Playwrights Realm); God, Man and Devil by Jacob Gordin (Target Margin Theatre); Pete the Girl by Charity Henson-Ballard (Rising Circle/Culture Project Women’s Center Stage; Jump Jim Crow by Jesse Cameron Alick, music and lyrics by Justin Levine (Subjective Theater Company); Cold Keener by Zora Neale Hurston (Target Margin Theatre). Awards: 2008/2010 Women’s Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre. Education: MFA, Directing, Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.