DENISE
SAUNDERS THOMPSON, B.F.A., M.F.A.
Manager, Cramton Auditorium
Instructor, Theatre Arts
AdministrationCramton Auditorium
Howard University, Washington,
DC 20059
(202) 806-7194 ddsaunders@fac.howard.edu
Professor Saunders is the
Manager of Cramton Auditorium. She is also President & CEO of D.d.Saunders & Associates, Inc., a comprehensive fine arts
advisory firm offering artist representation; Co-Founder of PlayRight Performing
Arts Center, Inc., a non-profit arts organization in Atlanta, Georgia,
and Business Manager for The Malone Group, Inc. a non-profit arts organization
in Washington, D.C. that co-produced Black Nativity at the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 1994-1999. Ms. Saunders
currently freelances in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in production
and has held positions at the Lincoln Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company,
National Black Arts Festival, 1996 Olympic Arts Festival, 1996 Olympics,
Several Dancers Core, the Atlanta Dance Initiative, the Mark Taper Forum,
the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, Harrah’s Marina Hotel Casino as well as other numerous positions.
In addition, she received an Arts Corp Project grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts to write, direct and produce an original work in
an under served community in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Ms. Saunders is
currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English at Howard University.
All rental inquiries for
Cramton Auditorium should be addressed to her. |