Adult Education

In an exciting development, Dobama Theatre was able to offer adult education opportunities in the form of professional development for the first time in the summer of 2026!

About

Over four Mondays in July, a cohort of 20 individual artists honed their skills as directors while connecting with and learning from their fellow professionals.

Participants learned about directorial expectations in an Equity space, practiced communicating with collaborators, and gained insight into a full professional process, from pre-production to opening, tablework to tech!

This program was recommended for artists who have some directing experience in community, semi-professional, and/or educational settings, creating or self-producing work.

More Adult Education offerings are in the works! Check back here for future professional development opportunities with Dobama Theatre!

Presenter

Carrie Williams is Dobama Theatre’s Director of Education. She recently directed the sold out productions of WITCH (2025) and POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (2024) at Dobama. Other recent projects include Word Play (Performance Studies International Brazil), I Wear My Dead Sister’s Clothes (BorderLight Fringe), The Witches (Test Flight), I Stumbled Through A Magic Portal and All I Got Was This Dumb Tshirt (Party of 5), Apo in the Sky (Talespinner Children’s Theatre).

Since 2018 she has produced the Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Playwriting Festival, an yearly event that involves organizing 40-50 adult artists (directors, actors, designers, etc) to simultaneously stage between 8 and 12 short plays (all written by local youth).