Vershawn Sanders-Ward Archives

A triptych of headshots. On the left is Dusty Brown, a nonbinary white person. They have short dark hair, light-brown facial hair, and are wearing brown rimmed glasses, a light patterned shirt, and a dark blue plaid jacket. In the center is Michael Dias, a white man with dark gray hair and a gray beard and mustache. He is wearing a light blue v-neck T-shirt. At right is Eileen Dixon, a white woman with short red hair. She is wearing a black knit top with a v-neck.

Redtwist names new artistic director

by Kerry Reid December 2, 2022December 6, 2022

This has been a year of tremendous changes at the top for Chicago theaters, with Susan V. Booth taking over at the Goodman after Bob Falls’s 35 years as artistic director and Braden Abraham, formerly the artistic director for Seattle Rep, poised to take over as AD at Glencoe’s Writers Theatre in February. Cody Estle, […]

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Dance

Breathing life into Red Clay Dance Company

by Irene Hsiao September 15, 2021September 18, 2021

“When you realize there’s inequities, and there’s not as many performance opportunities or presentation opportunities for certain artists, you have to begin to make those spaces for yourself,” said founding artistic director and CEO of Red Clay Dance Company Vershawn Sanders-Ward in 2019. Now Red Clay, a company with a mission of teaching and performing […]