Theater Alliance announces new Producing Artistic Director.

The Theater Alliance Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Raymond Caldwell has been hired as the company’s next Producing Artistic Director effective January 1, 2019. Raymond is currently Theater Alliance’s Associate Artistic Director. He succeeds Colin Hovde, who announced his departure in July 2018 after five years at Theater Alliance’s helm. He was chosen after a four-month national search led by Carlyn Madden, an executive search consultant. Elliott Bales, Theater Alliance’s Treasurer, chaired the search committee.

Raymond brings an array of experiences to his new role. He joined Theater Alliance in 2017 to produce the company’s inaugural Word Becomes Action Festival and was elevated to Associate Artistic Director in 2018. He will direct the company’s production of Blood at the Root in early 2019.

Raymond is a lecturer at Howard University’s Theater Department, a position he will hold through the end of the Spring 2019 semester. He is a recipient of Arena Stage’s prestigious Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship and later joined as the theater’s Community Engagement Manager. Caldwell is an accomplished an actor, director, and teaching artist. He received a BFA in Acting and Musical Theatre from the University of Florida, and a MFA in Acting from the Ohio State University.