Illinois Theatre

Theatre Studies Faculty — Assistant Program Coordinator - INNER VOICES Theatre

MFA, University of Memphis

Specialties: Directing, Collaborative Creation

Latrelle Bright is a director, performer and arts advocate.  She has served as founding artistic director of The Renaissance Guild, San Antonio’s black theatre company, Director of Audience Development for Voices of the South in Memphis and Assistant Program Director for the Heifer Theatre Project with Heifer International, a world hunger relief and sustainability organization.  In addition to her theatre work, she was a paralegal in the corporate world and volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Alamo Theatre Arts Council, on the board of the YWCA and as a facilitator for dialogues on race through the Common Ground program.  She has received awards for her innovative programming and directing, spoken at events about the power of social entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a Young Leader of Color by TCG.  Latrelle graduated from the University of Memphis with an MFA in Directing focusing on narrative and devised works and audience theory. 

Email: lbright@illinois.edu