Artistic Directors – The Bard of Pittsburgh African Legacy Theatre

Artistic Directors:

Tinuke Craig

Director of Aisha (the black album) (The Old Vic); Jitney (Leeds Playhouse); Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre); Crave, random/generations (Chichester); Hamlet For Young Audiences (National Theatre); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Vassa (Almeida Theatre); The Color Purple (Leicester Curve/Birmingham Hippodrome); I Call My Brothers (Gate Theatre); dirty butterfly (Young Vic).

Baylis Director at The Old Vic and Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith, and was the Gate’s Associate Director from 2015–2016.Trained at LAMDA and received the Genesis Future Director Award 2014. Her five-star reviewed direction of August Wilson’s Jitney transfers to the Old Vic in 2022.

Paulette Randall

Paulette Randall MBE is a British theatre director of Jamaican descent. She directed August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean in Los Angeles (2003), New York (2004) and in London’s Tricycle Theatre (2006); and Fences, starring Sir Lenny Henry, at the Duchess Theatre London (2013).

She was chair of the board of Clean Break Theatre Company in 2006–07, and is former artistic director of the Talawa Theatre Company. She was the associate director working alongside Danny Boyle for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics; and was appointed an MBE in 2015 for services to drama. In 2016 she was given a lifetime achievement award for her work as a director and playwright in film and TV at the inaugural WOW Creative Industries Awards, presented by the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre.