STATERA MENTORSHIP | CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUKY

Statera Mentorship: Cincinnati / N. Kentuky was created in the winter of 2020. It was founded by Torie Wiggins who also serves as one of the Regional Coordinators. The Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati Regional CoordinatorS

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Torie Wiggins (she/her) has been performing and teaching professionally for over 15 years. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Dramatic Performance. She has co-adapted and performed a one woman show, Your Negro Tour Guide, at various venues in Cincinnati and toured with it across the country. She has appeared on All My Children, and her voice can be heard on numerous national television and radio commercials for H&M, Home Depot, and Burger King, just to name a few. She has appeared on All My Children, and landed a principal role in A Christmas Melody on the Hallmark Channel, starring and directed by Mariah Carey, as well as a role in The Old Man and the Gun with Robert Redford and Danny Glover, The Public, directed by Emilio Estevez, and Extremely Wicked, Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron. Cincinnati credits include Collapse, Afghan Women Writer’s Project, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Pluto, Harry and the Thief, and Dragon Play (Know Theatre of Cincinnati) The Mountaintop, Cinderella, and Violet (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati) and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deveare Smith (Diogenes Theatre Co) which she also performed at Miami University. She appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Black Pearl Sings! at ETC, which both garnered nominations for a League of Cincinnati Theatres  Award. At the Human Race Theatre in Dayton , OH she played as Vera Charles in Mame, Cassandra in Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Mabel in Crowns. She reprised her role as Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She also wrote and performed a solo piece entitled The Breath of Africana for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and has performed it in various venues.

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Alice Flanders (she/her) has been working in Cincinnati theatre since 2005 and holds a BFA in Theatre Design and Production from CCM-UC. With so much time in the arts, she has run the gamut in terms of theatres and positions, working as Assistant Stage Manager, Resident Stage Manager, Managing Director, Assistant Director, Director, and Producer at companies around the region including Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, the Know Theatre, New Stage Collective, InBocca, and The Carnegie, among others. After spending four years as the Resident Equity Stage Manager at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and then two as the Managing Director for the Know Theatre, she is now Chief of Staff for Cincinnati-based podcaster Travis McElroy. She can also be found co-producing the Cincinnati Underground Secret Society live shows, directing End of the Rainbow for the Carnegie in March, and producing the first annual Cincinnati Storytelling Festival along with Madcap Education Center. She is incredibly passionate about intersectionality in theatre, and making sure underrepresented voices of all kinds have the chance to see themselves and each other on the stage.

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Jennifer Joplin (she/her) has worked and played in the Cincinnati/Dayton region for over 25 years.  She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, a graduate of Wright State’s professional actor training program and longtime resident artist of The Human Race Theatre Company.  On stage and off Jen believes in theatre’s unique ability to explore shared human experience and our innate need for storytelling.  Some of Jen’s favorite roles in New York, Chicago, at HRTC, Ensemble, Know and Cincy Shakes include Erma Bombeck in At Wit’s End, in the world premiere of 26 Pebbles, as Amanda in Glass Menagerie, Brooke in Other Desert Cities, Annette in God of Carnage, Aimee in The Humans, Rosemary in Outside Mullingar, Gwen in Rapture, Blister, Burn, as Virginie in The Man-Beast, as Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, and she continues to perform her original one woman show, The MILF Also Rises across the country including at the StateraArts Conference 2019 in NYC. Offstage she is a development manager, director, teacher, writer, activist and dearest to her heart - Mom.  While it can feel like a lot, she wouldn’t trade this juggling act for anything… except maybe more money. A lot more money.

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Maliyah Gramata-Jones (she/her) After years of touring Japan, Germany, Poland, and Canada as an Arts Ambassador, Maliyah is dedicated to immersing herself in her education and the Cincinnati theatre scene. She's had the privilege to play at Know Theatre Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. She currently is completing a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Performing Arts, Design, and Anthropology. Over the years, her passion for using the arts as a means of influencing and healing communities has grown. With her life compass still calibrated to the arts and culture, she continues to seek new ways to engage the world with music, movement, and theater.

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Caitlin McWethy (she/her/hers) is an actor, director, teacher, writer, and community organizer in Cincinnati, OH. After over a decade of performing (Manhattan Theatre Club, Virginia Stage Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company, and Tennessee Shakespeare Company), Caitlin will receive her MA in Private Interest and Public Good from Xavier University in May 2020. She currently serves as the Manager of Community Partnerships at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has been a member of their Resident Ensemble for 7 seasons. As an administrator and teacher, she focuses on ensuring that the experience of theater, both seeing it and making it, remains a public good - accessible for all and representative of the community a theater serves. As a theatre artist, she has created such works as A Midsummer Night's Dream with hip-hop mentorship organization ELEMENTZ, Place/Setting in conjunction with RefugeeConnect, and Descent: A Murder Ballad with songwriter Hannah Gregory and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She is a member of Actor’s Equity, is an alum of Theatre of the Oppressed New York City's Joker Training program, and was the recipient of the Michael Ford Field Experience Scholarship for excellence in the study of public policy.

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Erin Carr’s (she/hers) is currently working as a professional actor, physical theatre creator & theatre activist. She received her BFA in Acting from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing and is currently working on her MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurship. Favorite creative projects include the development of The World of Wonders, a physical installation for BLINK Cincinnati 2019, Shit Men Have Said and bed (a fever dream) for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, playing Christine in Jimmy Gorski is Dead, Catherine Givings in In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, and Sara in Stop Kiss. Along with performing and collaborating, Erin works as a teaching artist, director of educational theatre, and advanced physical theatre practitioner with multiple theatre companies in Cincinnati, as well as around the U.S. She is currently the Vice President for the League of Cincinnati Theatres, a Co-Founder of Teaching Artist Alliance, Co-Artistic Director of the feminist-centric theatre company, ReVamp Collective, based in Philadelphia, PA, as well as the Co-Founder of Solasta Theatre Lab in Cincinnati, OH. She also works as a life coach, focusing on the awareness of body language and the stories we express physically. Additional information: www.erincarr.com


*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.