ALEXIS KULANI WOODARD (she/her) is a Princess Grace Award Winner, Associate Artistic Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, and the 2025-2026 Directing Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. She would like to dedicate her work on this play to her friend, Malik James, whose legacy of artistic excellence inspires her every day. Select Directing Credits include: The Dark Lady (Synchronicity Theatre), Metamorphoses, SORT, Moe’s a D*ck, Stray Dogs, Measure for Measure (Yale Drama), Lungs (“I.L. Caragiale Bucharest”), Every Brilliant Thing (Yale Cabaret), Hamlet (The TINY Theater Company, Alliance Theatre: Guest Artist Series); HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments and Do You Love the Dark? (Alliance Theatre). Upcoming: Marie Antoinette (Fordham University, January 2027). Her work on HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments earned the production six Suzi Bass Award Nominations, including Best Direction, and a win for Outstanding Social Justice Production. Metamorphoses received four Connecticut BroadwayWorld Awards nominations, including Best Direction. Select Associate Directing credits include The Motion (Arena Stage), and the world premiere tri-production of Dream Hou$e (Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage). She also has served as the Drama League Assistant Director The Notebook, First National Tour. MFA: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
