SMALL PROFESSIONAL THEATRES (SPT):
ArtsWest Playhouse, West Seattle WA
Sunset Baby by Dominque Mrisseau, 2020
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson, 2018
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, 2014
West of Lenin, Seattle WA
The Agitators by Mat Smart, 2019
Seattle Public Theatre, Seattle WA
Broke-ology by Natahn Louis Jackson, 2013
Southern Repertory Theatre, New Orleans LA
Father Comes Home From the Wars Pt. 1, 2 & 3
by Suzan-Lori Parks, 2017
Shotgun by John Biguenet, 2009;
Yellowman by Dael Olandersmith, 2004
Northwest Asian American Theatre, Seattle WA
Porcelain by Chay Yew, 2001;
Hiro by Denise Uyehara, 1996
Company One Theater, Hartford CT
Combination Skin by Lisa Jones, 1992;
Life According to Motown by Patricia Smith, 1992
The Performing Ensemble Inc. Hartford CT
1987-93:
Spell #7 by Ntozake Shange, 1993;
Zooman and the Sign by Charles Fuller, 1992;
Home by Samm-Art Williams, 1990;
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee, 1989
READINGS/WORKSHOPS
A Contemporary Theatre – Paradise Blue, 2012; The Final Days of Negroville, 2010; Sweet Maladies, 2009; Mutambi and Lindstrom, 2007; Ghetto Mansion, 2006; My Jim, 2005
New York Theatre Workshop – Wanted, 2011; The Venus de Milo is Armed, 2002
Seattle Repertory Theatre – Lucinda Caval, 2007; Chop Wars, 2006; 121 Degrees West , 2004; Slow Fast Walking on the Red Eye, 2002; Neat, 1996
One Coast Collaboration - The Ashes Under Gait City, 2012
Juilliard – Wild Black Eyed Susans, 2006
Portland CenterStage – Bulrusher, 2004
Mark Taper Forum – Slide Glide, 2001
The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis – Snapshot Silhouette, 2001
Hartford Stage Company – The Mojo and the Sayso, 1994
Valerie CUrtis-Newton
Director/Educator
LEAGUE OF REGIONAL THEATRES (LORT):
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle WA
Nina Simone Four Women by Christina Ham, 2019
Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver CO
Last Night and the Night Before by Donnetta Lavinia Grays, 2019
Playmakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill NC
SkeletonCrew by Dominique Morisseau, 2018
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis MN
Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, 2016
Intiman Theatre, Seattle WA
Wedding Band by Alice Childress, 2016
Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, 2013
Dirty Story by John Patrick Shanley, 2012
All My Sons by Arthur Miller, 2011
A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle WA
The Lady With All The Answers by David Trumbo, 2010;
Fathers and Sons by Michael Bradford, 2008;
The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman, 2007;
Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress, 2006 (Inaugural Production of Hansberry Project)
Flight by Charlayne Woodard, 2005
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery AL
The Venus de Milo is Armed by Kia Corthron, 2003
(world premiere)
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville KY
Slide Glide The Slippery Slope by Kia Corthron, 2003 (world premiere)
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles CA
Slide Glide The Slippery Slope by Kia Corthron
(west coast premiere)
Tacoma Actors Guild, Tacoma WA
Crumbs From The Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage, 2003; Pantomime by Derek Walcott, 2002
Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle WA
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Constance Congdon, 2000 (world premiere)
Capitol Repertory Theatre, Albany NY
Pretty Fire by and with Charlayne Woodard, 1998
NON-EQUITY OR EDUCATIONAL THEATRES:
University of Washington, Seattle WA 1993-Present
Fefu and her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes, 2018; 5th of July by Lanford Wilson, 2013; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Guirgis, 2010; Wild Black Eyed Susans by Kara Lee Corthron, 2008; Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Guirgis, 2007; The Water Children by Wendy McCloud, 2007; Execution of Justice by Emily Mann, 2005; The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, 2004;
Sleep Deprivation Chamber by Adam & Adrienne Kennedy, 2001; The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry, 2000; Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson, 1998; Twilight by Anna Deveare Smith, 1997; Wedding Band by Alice Childress, 1995
Ethnic Cultural Theatre 1993-2000:
To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Robert Nemiroff, 2000; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson, 1999; Santos & Santos by Octavio Solis, 1997; Chain by Pearl Cleage, 1996