Artisia Green-Dallas is dramaturge, director and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the College of William and Mary. Her stage direction has been noted at eta Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago State University, Lehman College, Primary Stages – 45th Street Theatre, Live Arts, Morgan State University, the SPARC/Theatre IV’s New Voices for the Theatre Festival, and the African-American Repertory Theatre (formerly Living Word Stage Company).
Directing for the theatre gives Artisia the opportunity to use the play’s context as a point of departure to creatively counter current conduits of pop-culture - media, movies, and music and respond to the socio-political forces with which humanity is constantly being challenged. She was the Artist-in-Residence for the New Directional Players of Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center from 2008-2010 where she was able to further her artistic-activist goal of providing a platform for the voices of the historically marginalized to make for a more inclusive American theatrical landscape.
Acknowledged by the Association of Black Cultural Centers (ABCC) as one of the best university cultural centers in the nation, Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center allowed Artisia to engage in action research on issues specific to the African American experience and encode that information into a creative format.
Artisia is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas as well as the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. She is President-Elect of the national Black Theatre Network and Chair of BTN's S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition.
