Laurie Woolery (Director) is an Obie Award winning director, playwright, community activist, and citizen artist, who works at theaters across the country including The Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York City Center/Encores! Off Center, Trinity Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Cornerstone Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, and Yale Rep, where she recently directed Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles as well as Manahatta, El Huracán, and Imogen Says Nothing. Working at the intersection of community and transformative collaboration, Laurie is the Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, where her musical adaptations of The Tempest and As You Like It were performed with 200 New Yorkers on the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Laurie directed the rolling world premiere of Eliana Pipes Dream Hou$e at the Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage. She produced the documentary Under the Greenwood Tree and curated the national public art project The Seed Project. Laurie has developed new work with diverse communities ranging from incarcerated women to residents of a Kansas town devastated by a tornado. She creates site-specific work that ranges from a working sawmill in Eureka to the banks of the Los Angeles River. Laurie is a founding member of The Sol Project and a proud recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Women Directors of Color. Laurie is a 2020 United States Artist recipient, 2021 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities and the 2022 Person of the Year Award for the National Theatre Conference.