GSO Theater Consortium

Mentors/Moderators

Greg HortonCam(eron)
Natalie SowellDJ Me
Doug BrownEmasculated
Vanecia BooneInvisible Orchids
Michael DinwiddieModerator
Kamilah BushDramaturg
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Natalie Sowell
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Doug Brown
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Michael Dinwiddie
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Kamilah Bush

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Natalie Sowell

Professor Natalie Sowell is the Director of the UNCG School of Theatre. Prof. Sowell founded the Child Drama and Community program and served as Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at Hampshire College in MA where she taught for 16 years. Specializing in applied theatre for social change, creative drama, critical literacy, and oral storytelling, Sowell is a trained Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner who studied with Augusto Boal and Julian Boal. She has conducted dozens of applied theatre workshops, classes, and artist residencies and directed numerous plays centering the African diaspora.

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Doug Brown

As Department Chair, Doug brings over 20 years’ experience teaching at High Point University. He is a long standing member of AEA. He teaches multiple levels of acting in the department of Theater and Dance, as well as directing and performing in the production season.  Doug has directed over 20 productions during his tenure with the department. His directing credits include SILENT SKY, CINDERELLA, WORKING, THESE SHINING LIVES, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, and THE AMISH PROJECT. Acting credits include Pa Joad from THE GRAPES OF WRATH, Pozzo from WAITING FOR GODOT and Joe Keller from ALL MY SONS.

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Michael Dinwiddie

Michael Dinwiddie is an award-winning playwright and composer whose works have been produced in New York, regional and educational theatre. A professor of dramatic writing at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, he has taught playwriting courses at Michigan State University, Florida A&M University, California State University San Bernardino, the College of New Rochelle, and La Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2022 the Black Liberation Arts Center (BLAC Inc.) in Oklahoma City inaugurated the “Michael D. Dinwiddie Playwright Award” to recognize talented dramatists born in the southwest. Michael was an inaugural fellow in the Disney Writers Program at Touchstone Pictures, and a staff writer on the ABC-TV hit show Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. His archival research led to the naming of the African Grove Theatre on NYU’s campus, to commemorate the 1821 playhouse that was the first Black-owned theatre in the United States. Michael is president of the August Wilson Society and serves on the boards of the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation, the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, NewFest LGBTQ+ Film and Media, and the Black Theatre Network. Professional memberships include the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, ASCAP and ATHE.

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Kamilah Bush

Kamilah Bush is a playwright, dramaturg and educator originally from North Carolina. She holds a BFA in Theater Education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a NC Teaching Fellow. Kamilah has spent several years working in celebrated regional theaters across the country, including Triad Stage in North Carolina, Asolo Repertory Theater in Florida and Two River Theater in New Jersey. She currently holds the position of Literary Manager at Portland Center Stage in Portland, OR. In her time at regional theaters she has worked as dramaturg on new musicals with the writing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and with Be More Chill’s Joe Iconis. Her play NICK & THE PRIZEFIGHTER was a semifinalist in the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, the 2022 L. Arnold Weissberger Award and the 2023 Princess Grace Award, and won the 2021 Urbanite Theater Modern Works Festival. Her adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST will premiere at Portland Center Stage in 2025.