Short Bio
kb saine is a director, author, educator, and theatre historian with over two decades of experience. kb served for six years as the Producing Artistic Director of Sycamore Rouge in Petersburg, VA; and has worked with Greenbriar Valley Theatre, vintage theatre company, and buckhannon community theatre in west virginia; theatreLAB, Richmond Triangle Players, Theatre IV/Theatre Gym, The Barksdale Theatre, Firehouse Theatre Project, TheatreVirginia, Dogwood Dell and SPARC in virginia; and the Dallas Theatre Center in Texas. Favorite past productions under her direction include The Glass Menagerie, orlando, everybody, Topdog/Underdog, the altruists, Stop Kiss, The Odyssey, Fair and Tender Ladies, The Crucible, Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings, Steal Away, and Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet, among many others. Her professional service includes extensive work with the Black Theatre Network (the national organization of Black Theatre Professionals, Academics, and Practitioners), where she is honored to serve as a past President. She is the current director of the contemporary theatre studies program at shepherd university.
longer bio
kb saine is a director, author, educator, and theatre historian with over two decades of experience. In the professional theatre world, kb served for six years as the producing artistic director of Sycamore Rouge in Petersburg, Va.; she has worked with Greenbrier Valley Theatre, vintage theatre company, and buckhannon community theatre in west virginia; with The Richmond Triangle Players, Theatre IV/Theatre Gym, The Barksdale Theatre, Firehouse Theatre Project, TheatreVirginia, Dogwood Dell, Yellow House Productions, TheatreMachine and SPARC in virginia; and the Dallas Theatre Center in Texas. Favorite past productions under her direction include The Glass Menagerie, orlando, everybody, Topdog/Underdog, the altruists, Stop Kiss, The Odyssey, Fair and Tender Ladies, The Crucible, Picasso at the lapin agile, Tartuffe, Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings, Steal Away, and Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet, among many others. Academically, she has taught at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia; Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA; West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV; and Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, WV. saine is the current director of the contemporary theatre studies program at shepherd university. Her accomplishments as a playwright include adaptations of The Velveteen Rabbit, (a play with music with original compositions by Roddy Barnes) Rumpelstiltskin, and the original works appalachian blackface, which tells a minstrel show/coal camp mashup tale in southern wv, and Read·y for Right, a play about the first civil rights protest in the city of Petersburg, VA. recently produced short works include seeds and C.O.r.i. meeting, 2nd floor. saine's academic writing includes issues of race and the representation of marginalized groups, with a particular focus on black theatre history and 19th and early 20th century blackface minstrel performance. Her professional service includes workshops, panels, and publications with South Eastern Theatre Conference and Theatre Symposium, West Virginia Thespians, West Virginia Theatre Association, Virginia Theatre Association, Southside Virginia Council for the Arts, Virginians for the Arts, BTNews, and extensive work with the Black Theatre Network (the national organization of Black Theatre Professionals, Academics and Practitioners), where she is proud to serve as a past President for the national Executive Board. saine is also the host of the black theatre history podcast, which can be found on apple podcasts & at www.blacktheatrehistory.com.