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Choreographer, A Raisin in the Sun
Sonia Dawkins, BFA, University of the Arts, MFA, SUNY Brockport, is founder and artistic director of SD Prism Dance Theatre and member of SDC. The first African American female faculty member and choreographer at Pacific Northwest Ballet, guest teacher or choreographer at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Oklahoma, and Cornish College of the Arts. Ms. Dawkins has choreographed and directed in the United States, Jamaica, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Mexico, and other places. Her selected choreography/directorial credits work includes: Seattle Children Theater/The Alliance (The Boy Who Kissed the Sky), Village Theatre (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Gypsy Rose Lee Award for choreography 2019 (My Heart Is a Drum); Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre (Pullman Porter Blues) nominated for the same award for 2012; Seattle Repertory Theatre (Three Musketeers, Brothers Size), Gypsy Rose Lee Award for choreography2012 (The Breach); Pacific Northwest Ballet; Nevada Ballet; Seattle Theatre Group (Dance This); and Broadway Bound (13 the Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, God Lives in Glass).