Valetta Anderson

Current

• Resident Teaching Artist at Alliance Theatre
• Board of Directors, Secretary at Working Title Playwrights, Inc.
• Teaching Artist at Horizon Theatre Company

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Past

• Board Member at Decatur Arts Alliance
• Executive Director at DeKalb Council for the Arts, Inc.

Connections

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Industry

Entertainment

Valetta Anderson’s Summary

I am a professional playwright whose full productions include “Leaving Limbo,” by Atlanta’s Essential Theatre, “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Today” by Jomandi Productions. “She’ll Find…” was also produced by Fisk University and by Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre. “Hallelujah Street Blues,” my newest full length play, will premiere at Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre on July 11, 2008.

My awards include AT&T:Onstage, Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Essential Theatre’s Power Plays, Hermann Kesten Stipend in Nürnberg, Germany, Rockefeller Foundation’s New Play Development Grant, and Rouse Company National Humanities Award.

I am Resident Teaching Artist with Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists, Teaching Artist with the Fox and Horizon Theatres, and former Adjunct Drama Professor at Spelman College. I also serve on the Boards of Directors of the Decatur Arts Alliance and Working Titles Playwrights

Valetta Anderson’s Specialties:

Playwright, Arts in Education Consultant & Member of the Georgia Council for the Arts’ (GCA) Arts in Education Consultant Bank, Young Playwrights Instructor and Member of the GCA's Arts in Education Teaching Artist Bank.

Valetta Anderson’s Experience

• Resident Teaching Artist

  Alliance Theatre

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  September 2007 — Present (11 months)

• Board of Directors, Secretary

  Working Title Playwrights, Inc.

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Working Title Playwrights mission is to provide all playwrights with the opportunity to excel: by helping them tell their stories for the stage, fostering the development of well-crafted plays, and increasing the visibility of theatre in the community.
  
  WTP works with playwrights, directors, actors, audiences, theatres and theatre organizations to help writers create their plays. We offer readings, educational seminars and opportunities for playwrights to see and hear their work onstage in its earliest stages and when it's ready for a full production by a theatre.
  
  We also help our playwrights understand the process of promoting their plays and serve as a clearinghouse for theatres that are interested in new work.

• Teaching Artist

  Horizon Theatre Company

  (Entertainment industry)

  1999 — Present (9 years)

Additional Information

Valetta Anderson’s Honors:

Leaving Limbo 2005 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award for January 2006 world premiere at 7Stages Theatre in Atlanta GA.

Traveling Thomas 2002 Hermann Kesten Stipend Recipient public reading with three week residency in Nürnberg, Germany.

Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn 2001 Commissioned by Theater Emory, Atlanta GA.

Traveling Thomas 1997 Commissioned by the State University of West Georgia’s Townsend Center for the Performing Arts, Carrollton GA and the Thomas A. Dorsey Foundation of Villa Rica GA.

Dorothy D. 1994 Regional Designation Award The Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. November 1993 The Rouse Company National Humanities Award.

No Virgins in Paradise 1992 Rockefeller Foundation New Play Development Grant and Georgia Council for the Arts, Artist Initiated Grant.

Today 1991 AT&T:Onstage, sponsorship award.