Biography

SHAY WAFER (Managing Director) has held administrative positions with a number of nonprofit arts organizations that focus on community outreach and arts-in-education programming. Formerly the managing director of L.A. Theatre Works, from 1996 to 1999, she served as Managing Director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company in Missouri. For the Black Rep she successfully implemented a three-year administrative stabilization plan. Shay also worked in the marketing department of Center Theatre Group and Yale Repertory Theatre. She was the Program Director for the west coast division of the Black Filmmaker Foundation and has worked as a consultant for numerous performing arts groups. A graduate of Yale University School of Drama, Shay was a founding partner of Crossroads Arts Academy and Theatre in Los Angeles and is the proud mother of Xosha Roquemore.

Roles and Productions

Work with Cornerstone

Work Outside Cornerstone