Program Books/Raelle Myrick-Hodges

Raelle Myrick-Hodges

stage director

Raelle Myrick-Hodges (stage director) has directed plays nationally and worked as a stage director internationally in devised works. She is the founder of Philadelphia’s Azuka Theatre—an award-winning company now in its 23rd year. Myrick-Hodges has presented works in dance, music, theater as and film as Curator of Performing Arts for the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Sbe has worked with artists in different aesthetics and disciplines including Denis O’Hare, Miriam Hyman, Meryl Streep, Antonio Brown (choreographer), Jeffrey Wright, and Chinaka Hodge. Currently, Myrick-Hodges is working on two projects for her newly created theater ensemble Elephant Room. Her creative contribution on Hair & Other Stories is dedicated to the memory of Ebony McKinney, co-founder of Elephant Room. Current and upcoming works directed by Myrick-Hodges include The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison and adapted by Lydia Diamond at the Arden Theatre Company and a world premiere of the 1947 play, In Splendid Error, written by William Branch—a fictional retelling of the day before John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry.