Cloteal L. Horne (her/she)(Director, Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous)  My name aptly weaves together parts of my grandparents’ names. Be it to muster the courage to stand before witnesses onstage or on screen, as a raw nerve, in order to shine a light upon hidden parts of humanity, or to architect a world that ignites the imagination towards transformation— I am committed to collaborative processes that illuminate humanity through the craft of storytelling. My work uproots classics and tethers itself to immersive ceremonies and rituals that center blackness, black-femininity. Calling on both the sacred and profane to locate that small (sometimes quiet) place where healing happens. I dedicate my practice to community, honest liberation, and building more just and joyous futures. WAM Theatre: WAM has always impressed me by being an organization committed to bringing dynamic works and critical  conversations to the Berkshires, so I am thrilled to be making my directorial debut.Selected Directorial Credits Elsewhere: Play Here[___] (The Wild Project, Director), Six Characters  (LCT3, Assistant Director), On The Exhale (Brown/Trinity, Director),  School for Scandal (Red Bull Theatre, Assistant Director) The Alchemist (Red Bull Theatre, Assistant Director), Breaking Dawn: American Myth Project (The NET/Shakespeare & Co., Creative Producer). Teaching: Yale School of Drama, Brown University, NYU- Playwrights Horizons/Meisner Studio, Vassar, and La Jolla Playhouse Student Conservatory. Creative inspiration: The lineage of Black Femme performance artists like Lorraine O’grady, and a perspective of ‘Visionary-Realism.’ A concept put forth by sociologist, scholar, and scientist Ruha Benjamin, which necessitates that we blend an acknowledgment of the deep-seated injustices embedded in our contemporary landscape, with an unapologetic commitment to create a more just and joyous future through our art and activism.Community Engagement/Activist work: Facilitator with artEquity; The BIPOC Leadership Circle and BIPOC Surviving PWI Processing Space (Co-Program Lead) and André Cailloux Center (Board Member). Membership/Affiliations: Actor’s Equity Association, National Acting Teachers Alliance, and Budi Miller Teacher Apprenticeship. Selected Training: MFA Acting- Brown University/Trinity Rep. and BFA Theater Arts- Boston University. Final Word: Blissfully standing on the shoulders of those that come before me, I am a product of my grandmother’s prayers + the living embodiments of my ancestors, and their wildest dreams. Glory be. Connect: Website- www.ClotealLHorne.com