she, her, they
Arts Division
Assistant Professor, Playwriting and Black Drama
Faculty
Theater Arts
Theater Arts J Offices
n/a
by appointment via email
Theater Arts Center
Professor Rollins (she/her) is a writer, director and new work developer. She is a Member of Dramatist Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers. She has been a writing resident with Djerassi, Hedgebrook, CALLALOO London and more. She received a Wallace Gerbode Playwright Award for a commission with Crowded Fire Theater for her new play KARA. She was honored with a “Bay Brilliant” Artist Award from San Francisco’s KQED, has been a Bay Area Rainin Arts Fellowship nominee and is the recipient of multiple grants for her playwriting and theater making work. Selected directing & dramaturg credits include Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, New York Stage and Film, Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Ground Floor, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona Theater Company, new work by Lauren Gunderson and creative collaboration with comedic artist W. Kamau Bell (CNN). She reads for juries & play selection panels around the country. She has been a Community Arts Panelist for Zellerbach Family Foundation and a Resident Artist with Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. She leads THE IRIS LAB, a new creative incubator and residency space for global majority & equity minded theater makers, located right here at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Performance, African Diaspora Studies, Black / African American Drama, Playwrighting, Theory and Praxis of Theater Making, World Building, Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory. Transracial Adoption.
