Teresa Coleman Wash

Teresa Coleman Wash (she/her/y’all) is a producer, playwright, racial equity practitioner, and thought leader on bias and racism in the American Theatre. Several of her essays have been published in the Dallas Morning News and Howlround Theatre Commons. She is the founder of Bishop Arts Theatre Center, and she holds an MA in Arts Management from Goucher College and a BS in Business Administration from Albany State University. Wash is a National Arts Strategies fellow who studied at Harvard Business School. She is the 2019 recipient of the Theater Communications Group’s Peter Zeisler Memorial Award for artistic integrity and ingenuity. In 2018, she received the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Milestone Award and the Business Council for the Arts Obelisk Award in the category of Visionary Nonprofit Arts Leader. Mrs. Wash has also earned several Irma P. Hall Awards, including the 2020 Irma P. Hall Theatrical Excellence Medal. She is the current recipient of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce’s Quest for Success Award and Broadway Dallas’ Leah and Jerome Fullinwider Award. Teresa was elected to the Dramatists Guild of America Council in 2017, representing the Southern region, where she also served on the steering committee. She is a key collaborative leader in the local and national arts advocacy community and has long served on the steering committee of DACAC, the Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition, and the Professional Nonprofit Theatre Coalition planning committee.