TIANA KAYE BLAIR (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customer) is a director, actor, educator, and culture worker based in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex. Her directing credits include: Spell #7, Dutchman, Mlima’s Tale, Libra Season, Working: A Musical, Hurt Village, Rage, Trouble In Mind, and No Child. Blair is a member of the Diane & Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company. Some of her acting credits include: penny candy, Steel Magnolias, In The Heights, The Great Society, Hair, and The Mountaintop. Blair is also a member of Progress Theatre, an international touring ensemble committed to using art to encourage social consciousness, cross-community dialogue and cultural awareness. She is a Professor of Practice of Acting and Movement at Southern Methodist University where she teaches a methodology called SoulWork. SoulWork is a comprehensive theater making methodology and pedagogy based in generations-old African American performance traditions and aesthetics. Developed by Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott, this ensemble based method engages the artist’s cultural knowledge of self and community to inspire social consciousness with respect to artistic practice, performance, and curricula. Blair holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theater from Prairie View A&M University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Southern Methodist University. Progresstheatre.com | www.soulworkmethod.com