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Valetta Anderson

Valetta Anderson’s full productions include “Leaving Limbo,” by Atlanta’s Essential Theatre, “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Today” by Jomandi Productions, and “Sisters And Other Christmas Turkeys,” a ten minute play by 7Stages Theatre. “She’ll Find…” was also produced by Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre. “Blue Water Fishing,” a new full length play, is in development. Her published plays, “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Moral of the Story,” a children’s play, are both available for purchase from HaveScripts.com at http://www.havescripts.com/script_Find-Her-Way-Home.htm and http://www.havescripts.com/script_Moral-Story.htm.

Her awards include AT&T:Onstage, Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Essential Theatre’s Power Plays 2006, Hermann Kesten Stipend (Nürnberg, Germany), Rockefeller Foundation’s New Play Development Grant, and Rouse Company National Humanities Award.

Valetta currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Decatur Arts Alliance and Working Titles Playwrights, is Teaching Artist with Atlanta’s Fox and Horizon Theatres and is an independent consultant/grant‑writer for arts and arts in education programs. She is former Executive Director of DeKalb Council for the Arts and former Adjunct Drama Professor at Spelman College.