Che'Rae Adams
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ABOUT CHE'RAE
Che'Rae started her career in the Entertainment Industry as an actor at the early age of ten years old. She experimented with directing in college and has been developing and directing new work ever since. She has been the Producing Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Writers Center since 2007 where she develops new scripts with local writers. She has also been a Development Executive for Playhouse Pictures studios, Co-Artistic Director of the Road Theatre Company, and has worked in theatre, film and television in Los Angeles for over 15 years.
Focusing primarily on developing and directing new work, Che’'Rae was in the development department at Showtime Networks, and the Canadian based Alliance/Atlantis Film & TV. Before she worked in film and TV, she assisting the Staff Producer at The Mark Taper Forum where she worked on the writing workshop of the Pulitzer Prize winning Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika. Also for the Taper, she coordinated the 1991 Taper Lab Series and Mentor Playwright's series where she directed the first reading of Alice Tuan's critically acclaimed Dim Sums. During her early training period in the theatre, she assisted many prominent directors including Tom Hulce and Jane Jones on the premiere of another Pulitzer Prize winner, The Cider House Rules, at The Seattle Repertory Theatre; David Saint on Travels With my Aunt, also at SRT; Steven Hollis on the premiere of Tennessee William's Notebook of Trigorin, starring Lynn Redgrave at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and John DiFusco on both the 10th and 20th anniversary productions of Tracers.
Che'Rae has directed the West Coast premiere productions of several new plays including Chesapeake, by Lee Blessing for Venice Theatre Works; Freak of Nature by Ken Hanes at The Road Theatre Company; Back Bar by Steve Simon and Jose Gregorio by Patricia Cardosa, both at the Lee Strasberg Theatre; Fixing Frank by Ken Hanes at the Celebration Theatre; Pandora's Trunk by Blaine Teamer at LATC starring Kim Fields and at the National Black Theatre Festival starring Tanya Pinkins; she co-authored and directed Fish Stories, which premiered at the HBO Workspace and went on to the Duplex Cabaret in New York.; From Bonkers to Botox, at the Stella Adler Theatre & Aspen Comedy Festival; Nothing to See Here at the Comedy Central Space staring “Reno 911” star Carlos Alazraqui; Flying Standby at The John Anson Ford Theatre; Tender for The Syzygy Theatre Company; and Walkin’ Thru The Fire at the Hayworth Theatre. She has also directed for Cincinnati Opera Outreach, Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Highways Performance Space, and the Los Angeles Theatre Festival.
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Che’'Rae has taught acting and writing workshops at various institutions such as The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Catholic University, Miami Dade University, California State University, Fulerton, UCLA Extension, and The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. She has also been a presenter for the Director's Lab, West which is an annual event at the Pasadena Playhouse. In addition, Che'Rae has served on the Board of Directors for several theatre organizations such as The Road Theatre Company, The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, and Venice Theatre Works. She has an MFA in directing from The University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music and a BA from California State University, Northridge.
In 2009 she returned to her acting roots by playing Gladys Presley in the new Cirque du Soleil show Viva Elvis. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she teaches playwriting and screenplay writing at the LA Writers Center.
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Writing Workshops
Che'Rae is the Producing Artistic Director for the
LA Writers Center and teaches writing workshops in the Los Angeles area.
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2009 Beginning Class
2010 Advanced Class
