TV credits include National Geographic’s Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Regional credits include Guthrie Theater, 5th Avenue Theatre, and Theatricum Botanicum. Other DC credits include various productions with the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Theater Alliance, Keegan Theatre, and MetroStage. Lisa Nathans ( Voice and Dialect Coach ) is thrilled to be coaching again for Arena Stage with this fabulous team after previously coaching Catch Me If You Can, Disney’s Newsies, and Anything Goes. Anita has traveled with Arena Stage’s devised theater program, Voices of Now, to India (2012, 2014), Croatia (2015, 2019), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019) to collaborate with communities in devising original plays addressing social justice issues. She has coached dialects for the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and the Broadway revival of Ragtime. Her essay about the project was published in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Palgrave MacMillan. The Alaska Native-inspired production of Macbeth that Anita conceived and directed was performed in English and Tlingit at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the Shakespeare in Washington Festival. Anita traveled extensively with the artist-in-schools program in Alaska, working primarily with indigenous populations within the context of traditional villages. Louis, headed the theater department at the University of Alaska Southeast, and was the associate artistic director of Perseverance Theater in Juneau, Alaska, where she directed 21 mainstage productions. Anita trained and taught at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, was on the faculty at Webster University in St. Now in her 19th season at Arena Stage, Anita has been involved in an artistic capacity on 45 Arena Stage productions: she directed the world premiere of Our War as part of the National Civil War Project, and has been an associate director, text director, and vocal/dialect coach on multiple other productions. Instagram: ANITA MAYNARD-LOSHĪnita Maynard-Losh ( Director ) is the director of community engagement and senior artistic advisor at Arena Stage, where she leads the theater’s education and outreach programs and serves on the artistic team. She's starring as a Filipino mother in the upcoming world premiere of The Mortification of Fovea Munson at the Kennedy Center this winter. Off-Broadway: Where Words Once Were (Lincoln Center & Kennedy Center TYA). Selected DC credits include We're Gonna Die (Round House Theatre), Vietgone, Red Light Winter (Studio Theatre), Describe the Night, The Arsonists (Woolly Mammoth), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Nell Gwynn (Folger Theatre), Tiger Style! (Olney), Birds of North America, Eureka Day (Mosaic Theater). One of Washingtonian magazine's “10 Biggest Theater Stars DC,” she advocates for equity in the industry and was co-chair of the theatreWashington 2021 Summit on anti-oppression. Nominated for multiple Helen Hayes Awards over 19 years, she was the first Filipino to have earned a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Performer for her work in The Events at Theater Alliance. Regina Aquino ( Susan Potter),she/her, is a DMV native Filipinx artist and activist who is thrilled to be making her Arena Stage debut.
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