Tinashe Kajese-Bolden is an Actor, Director and Educator. She started at the Alliance as the BOLD Artistic Director Fellow at the Alliance Theater and is a recent recipient of The Princess Grace Award. As a Director, recent productions include School Girls(Or the African Mean Girls Play) at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Ghost (The Alliance Theater), Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company), Pipeline (Horizon Theater), Nick’s Flamingo Grill (World Premiere at The Alliance Theatre, Hertz Stage),Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre, Best Director Suzi Bass Award). She will next be directing the Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat by Lynn Nottage on the new Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theater, is devising a new work for Theater for the Very Young specifically for children on the Autism Spectrum, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison at Synchronicity Theater followed by a co-production of Toni Stone at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and The Alliance Theatre. As an actor, she has worked on and off Broadway, at numerous regional theaters, as well as TV and Film, most recently filming Suicide Squad 2 that opens Summer 2021.

Maya Lawrence is a Big Apple raised, Georgia Peach based multidisciplinary artist using art’s power to heal and transform the world through love. 

This proud Spelman College alumna spends her magic as a BOLD Resident Artist at the Tony award winning Alliance Theatre. As Resident Artist she is a poet, playwright, director, performer, producer, and teaching artist while managing the Spelman Leadership Program- an innovative fellowship designed to be an accelerator for young Black women’s leadership into cultural institutions, which she was the inaugural fellow of in 2016. The culmination of her fellowship resulted in her founding of the Allyship Program, a theater-based anti bias workshop curriculum designed to build alliances using theater, supporting corporations, organizations, rehearsal rooms, and individuals young and ageless to become their most authentic & empathetic selves.   Maya’s work is rooted in art as a public health tool, community organizing and activation, and collective empowerment through storytelling.

Abrianna Belvedere is a new work producer, dramaturg, and deviser based in Atlanta, GA.  They believe theater is a time capsule that holds what society was, is, and could be. This belief guides her love of community-oriented new work, as well as research on Queer and feminist narratives in dramatic literature.

Abrianna is thrilled to join the Alliance Theatre as the BOLD Producing Associate! In this role, she supports audience engagement, community partnerships, dramaturgical research, and literary initiatives. She will produce the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, and assistant produce the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.

Abrianna also serves as co-producer of SheATL, a summer theater festival that showcases new work by female, trans, and gender non-conforming playwrights. Notable devised work includes Morning Has Broken, a movement piece that grieves intergenerational trauma and examines its intersections with disability, poverty, and Southern identity.

Abrianna graduated magna cum laude from Emory University with a B.A. in Theater Studies and a minor in Italian Literature. In their free time, you can find Abrianna tending to their community garden plot or planning their next dinner party!

Sam Provenzano is a director, dramaturg, and teaching artist based in Atlanta—where she is a resident artist and teen programs manager at the Alliance Theater. She has more than a decade of experience making work as an educator and director with institutions across the globe. Sam has her MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in theater for young audiences, museum theater, and new play development.