Statera Mentorship | Atlanta Chapter
Statera Mentorship: Altanta was created in the spring of 2019. It was founded by Valeka J. Holt. The Atlanta Chapter is not currently accepting applications. To receive information about the next cohort, please sign up for the Statera Newsletter. If you have any questions, please contact our National Co-Directors at [email protected].
Meet Your Atlanta Regional CoordinatorS

Annie Harrison Elliott (she/her) is a writer based in Atlanta, Ga. Her plays have been read, commissioned, or produced by: Alliance Theatre, Actor’s Express, The Atlanta History Center, Found Stages, Working Title Playwrights, DramaTech, and others. Her plays for children, The Best Balloon and Math Problems, are published by YouthPlays. She is an artistic associate with Found Stages and is currently working on their immersive show Frankenstein’s Funeral. She is a member of both the Writer’s Guild and Dramatist Guild of America. Annie Co-founded Atlanta Women in Theatre in 2014.
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Amber Bradshaw (she/her) is the Managing Artistic Director of Working Title Playwrights (www.workingtitleplaywrights.com). She is a dramaturg/director, producer and performer with a sole focus in new works and a mission to bring Southern voices to the national stage. In Atlanta she has worked with Actor’s Express, Synchronicity Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, the Center for Puppetry Arts, Out of Hand Theatre, Out Front Theatre, Gathering Wild Dance, and the Essential Theatre. For several years she has directed, dramaturged and curated plays as a freelance artist in Atlanta. Of the plays developed, several have received professional world premieres and others have gone on to be awarded readings, development labs and workshop productions in Atlanta and nationally. For WTP, she has directed three Ethel Woolson Labs and moderates regularly for WTP’s Monday Night Critique Sessions. Amber has co-produced and written three original works (Circa 50; Learning to Fly and Identified: A Queer Variety Show!). Amber is a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the Dramatist Guild of America.
Past Atlanta Team Members

Chapter Founder, Valeka J. Holt
*A NOTE ON INCLUSION AT STATERA
Women: Statera recognizes the limiting nature of the binary use of woman. We serve and welcome anyone on the gender spectrum who identifies either always or some of the time as a woman. We also serve and welcome those who are non-binary, while recognizing that not all non-binary people identify with aspects of femininity.
Intersectionality: StateraArts works through an intersectional lens for gender parity. We understand and acknowledge that systems of oppression and discrimination are interdependent and span all social categorizations such as race, class, gender, ability, religion, parental status, size, age, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or group. Addressing one spoke of systematic discrimination or disadvantage means holistically addressing them all.