Joyce Van Dyke’s new solo show, Representation and How to Get It, was developed in collaboration with performer Elaine Vaan Hogue and director Judy Braha and produced in 2022 in New York and numerous historic New England venues. Joyce’s other plays include Daybreak (Off-Broadway premiere, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), The Women Who Mapped the Stars (commissioned and produced by Central Square Theater), The Oil Thief (commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2009 Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding New Script), and A Girl’s War (produced by Golden Thread Productions, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, winner of the Gassner Award and Boston Globe’s “Top Ten” plays of 2001.) Her plays have been anthologized in 100 Plays to Save the World, Contemporary Armenian American Drama, and Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays. A MacDowell Fellow and Huntington Playwriting Fellow, she has taught Shakespeare and playwriting for many years at Harvard Extension School.

Elaine Vaan Hogue is an actor, director, teacher, and producer. From Los Angeles originally, she has performed, directed, and taught in diverse settings. Elaine is a member of The Magdalena Project, a dynamic international cross-cultural and cross-generational network of women in contemporary theatre. In 2022 she was a performer in Daughter, directed by Jill Greenhalgh, part of the Magdalena International Festival hosted by Double Edge Theatre, a gathering of worldwide women, non-binary, and trans artists. She co-founded the Gypsy Mamas Artist Group, a laboratory sustaining adventurous creative exploration and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration of new work. Projects include The Future of Ice, Creation: Mythic Weavings, and When Jennie Goes Marching. Elaine has performed and directed at many theatres, including THT Rep, New Repertory Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Center for American Performance, Arts After Hours, Bridge Repertory Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Double Edge Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, New Theatre, American Theatre Arts. She is a Professor Emerita at Boston University, where she taught acting and directing for 25 years. Elaine is thrilled to be touring Representation and How to Get It to historic venues throughout New England.

Judy Braha has been a director, actor, teacher, and artist for social justice for over four decades. Head of the MFA Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater, her credits include theaters and universities throughout New England and beyond. With a commitment to raising consciousness around the power of the arts as activism, Judy collaborates with Andre de Quadros in the BU College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project, teaching incarcerated students in Massachusetts prisons and jails. They also work together within the BU community, facilitating the socially conscious Collaborative Arts Incubator and the groundbreaking series Race, Prison, Justice, Arts. As a director, Judy’s work often has concern for human rights at its center: Golda’s Balcony (NEW REP), To Kill A Mockingbird (GSC), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (CST), Othello, I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (ASP), Deported, a dream play (BPT), Our Class, Our Country’s Good and The Exonerated at BU/SOT and the new work Mr. Fullerton by Anne Undeland (GBPT). Currently, a new solo work about the feminist, suffragist, and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It by Joyce Van Dyke. A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, AEA, and SAG-AFTRA, Judy is a founding board member of Stage Source, New England Theater’s service organization committed to connecting theaters, artists, and their communities.