Donna Baldwin-Bradby For WestRep Stage, Donna has directed Ernest and the Pale Moon, Fairview, The Crucible, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

As a performer, Donna has worked professionally across the country in productions of: Crowns, Menopause: The Musical, Violet, Nunsense, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dreamgirls, Big River, and Little Shop of Horrors to name a few. Donna is passionate about theatre, and its ability to impact humanity in ways both significant and profound. Education: BFA, NC A&T MFA, Virginia Tech.

In addition to directing and performing, Donna is also a professor of Theatre Arts at North Carolina A&T State University, the country’s largest HBCU. Most recently she was named Executive Director of Touring Theatre of North Carolina and remains heavily involved with the annual National Black Theatre Festival. Some of her most recent professional directing credits include: Ain’t Misbehavin’: The “Fats” Waller Musical Show, The America Play, Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, From the Mississippi Delta and The Old Settler. Additionally, Donna has provided choreography for Das Barbecü, ‘MASTER HAROLD’…and the boys, and served as the movement coach for The Matchmaker, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Blood at the Root. Donna has also directed multiple productions of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth for Triad Stage, at The National Black Theatre Festival, NC A&T University, Spelman College, and at Seven Stages in Atlanta, GA.