Valetta Anderson

I am a Teaching Artist with Atlanta’s Alliance, Fox and Horizon Theatres and former Adjunct Drama Professor at Spelman College.

As professional playwright, my full productions include “Hallelujah Street Blues” by Horizon Theatre, “Leaving Limbo,” by Essential Theatre, “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Today” by Jomandi Productions, “Dr. Love And The Fabulous Diamond Jubilee” by Clark-Atlanta University Players, and “Sisters And Other Christmas Turkeys,” by 7Stages Theatre (all in Atlanta). “She’ll Find…” was also produced by Nashville’s Fisk University Little Theatre and by Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre.

My awards include AT&T:Onstage; Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games; Essential Theatre’s Power Plays; Hermann Kesten Stipend in Nürnberg, Germany; Rockefeller Foundation’s New Play Development Grant; Rouse Company National Humanities Award; and Serenbe Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Award.

I am a member of the Dramatists Guild, Georgia Writers Registry, and Working Title
Playwrights. I serve on the Advisory Boards of Essential Theatre and Good Moves Dance Company and am former Board Member of the Decatur Arts Alliance and of Working Title Playwrights.

Around here (Zotero) I organize my historical research for my personal pleasure in it and for my plays and for use in the high school classrooms where my Teaching Artist work takes me. And as my interests have been called "wildly eclectic," Zotero affords me an easy means to organize them in folders and crossreference them with tags to more closely match my mind's freewheeling associations and links.