Arminda Thomas

Arminda Thomas (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and archivist. She is a resident dramaturg and producing member of CLASSIX, and a resident dramaturg/curator for New Perspectives Theatre’s On Her Shoulders reading series. She has served as associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer’s Unit and as archivist and literary manager for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she was an executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. As a dramaturg, she has worked with various theatres, including New Perspectives, Theatre for a New Audience, Baltimore Center Stage, New Federal Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Signature Theatre.

RECENT SELECTED WORK
- The Renaissance Mixtape by Soul Science Lab; directed by Awoye Timpo; Apollo Victoria Theatre (world premiere production)

- Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress; directed by Christopher Betts; Hartford Stage (production)

- Wedding Band by Alice Childress; directed by Sam White; Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canadian premiere)

- The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry; directed by Anne Kauffman (Broadway and BAM)

-Wedding Band by Alice Childress; directed by Awoye Timpo; Theatre for a New Audience (production)

What I want to see from the theater world post-pandemic: More locally-generated work and more access to work that is not local A great book I read recently: "The Ghost Walks" by Henry Sampson Most interesting non-theater job I've done:

What I want to see from the theater world post-pandemic:

More locally-generated work and more access to work that is not local

A great book I read recently:

"The Ghost Walks" by Henry Sampson

Most interesting non-theater job I've done:

Archivist for Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (theater-adjacent but not theater)

My favorite shows I saw right before the pandemic:

The last two things I saw were both works by Pearl Cleage: a staged reading of Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous produced by Quicksilver Theatre and the NY premiere of Blues for an Alabama Sky (Keen Theatre Co.)

Some things I like to do in my free time:

Play banjo, create roots and blues playlists

Favorite script-reading/artist meeting spot:

Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center