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Theatre alumna Tinashe Kajese-Bolden (BFA ’01) and Christopher Moses were recently named Artistic Directors for Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA after an extensive national search. Kajese-Bolden had spent the previous four years with Alliance in the role of BOLD Associate Artistic Director and has been serving alongside Moses as Interim Artistic Director since October 2022.
In 2022, Tinashe Kajese-Bolden made American Theatre’s list of 10 Rising Black Women+ to Watch. She won the prestigious Princess Grace Award in 2019, which endowed her work as the BOLD Women’s Leadership Circle Artistic Director Fellow at the Alliance Theatre for the 2019–2020 season.
In recent years, Kajese-Bolden has directed the world premiere of Nick’s Flamingo Grill by Phillip DePoy, Ghost by Idris Goodwin, and the Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat by Lynn Nottage—all at the Alliance Theatre. She won the 2017 Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Direction for Eclipsed at Synchronicity Theatre and was nominated for the 2019 Outstanding Direction award for School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre.
Originally from Zimbabwe, Kajese-Bolden moved to the United States in 1998 to attend college at the University of Illinois. She graduated in 2001 with a BFA in Studio Acting. In addition to her award winning work as a director, Kajese-Bolden’s television and film appearances as an actor include the BET mini-series The Bobby Brown Story, the HBO film The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks with Oprah Winfrey, a recurring role in Valor (The CW), The Inspectors (CBS), Killing Reagan (TV Film), Outcast (Cinemax), Powers (Sony), Greenleaf (OWN), Born Again Virgin (TV ONE), Enlightened (HBO), and CBS’s Cold Case.