DR. SHONDRIKA MOSS-BOULDIN

Dr. Shondrika Moss-Bouldin is the co-founder of Soulploitation Creative Works, LLC., a multi-media production company based out of Atlanta and Los Angeles. She has taught at several universities throughout the years but currently, she works primarily as a freelance theatre director/choreographer, acting coach, and consultant. She has earned all of her degrees from Northwestern University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D) in Performance Studies.  Presently, she serves on the advisory committee of Black Theatre Commons (BTC) and served on the executive board of the August Wilson Society as co-membership chair. She piloted and developed the August Wilson Monologue competition for Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company.  In 2019, she received the Wilsonian Soldier award from the August Wilson Monologue Competition (True Colors Theatre Company). She was also nominated for best Outstanding Director for the First Annual Taurean Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. She was awarded a Mellon research grant to study theatre and performance at Harvard University and she is a proud member of The Lincoln Center’s Director's Lab.  Some of her current and previous artistic and consultant work has been with Disney Theatrical Productions,The Kennedy Center, Hattiloo Theatre, New World Stages (Off-Broadway), Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Creative Arts Team, Cobb, Fayette, and Atlanta Public Schools, Chicago Shakespeare, Georgia Council for the Arts, The National Black Arts Festival, and The National Black Theatre Festival. Currently, she is editing and writing the upcoming book, Staging Lydia: Contextualizing the African American experience through the lens of Art and Scholarship (Northwestern Press) and writing the book, Troublemaker: An Artist’s Journey in Disrupting Paradigms and Creating Safe Spaces in Performance Practice. Dr. Moss-Bouldin believes in the healing practice of the arts and has founded the program: Heal Sista, Heal! (www.healsistaheal.com) as a platform to center Black women with the healing practice of dance and other art forms.