UPCOMING FOR THEATRE ARCHIPELAGO
RHOMA SPENCER |
RHOMA SPENCER - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Rhoma Spencer is an actor, director, storyteller, play creator and broadcast journalist from Trinidad and Tobago domiciled in Toronto. She was the outgoing Resident Director and Administrative Manager for the AfriCan Theatre Ensemble where she directed And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses, Anowa and Lawino and Ocol, a staged reading of her play at the tri-annual AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival in April 2003. She has acted in such plays as The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club, Mad Miss, Stori Ya, Things Fall Apart, Mother Courage, The Blacks, The Dragon Can't Dance, Ah Wanna Fall, Fallen Angel and the Devil's Concubine and Jean and Dinah, a play she created with Tony Hall and Susan Sandford. She has performed on stages throughout the Carribbean and North America. In the summer of 2003 she was the Artistic Director of Caribana. Directing credits include: Just Jazz, Blood Wedding, The Haitain Macbeth, Natrinity, Shango:Tales of the Orishas, Bassman. In March 2003, she completed a guest director residency at Boise State University in Idaho. Ms. Spencer holds an MFA in Theatre (Directing) from York University in Toronto. |
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