PRESS

2024

• NYC's HERE Names 4 New Co-Directors  (American Theater Magazine, 7/16/24)
• Off-Broadway's HERE Announces 4 New Diverse Co-Directors (Playbill, 7/16/24)
• HERE Appoints Jesse Cameron Alick, Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, and Lauren Miller as Co-Directors (Broadway World, 7/16/24)
• Groundwater Arts Launches New Mission & Programming (Broadway World, 6/26/24)
  

2023

• Indigenous Arts Gallery Showcases Baltimore's Rich Native Arts (WYPR, 9/15/23)
• "Little Amal," a 12-foot-tall puppet symbolizing human rights, will step foot in Baltimore as part of US walk (Baltimore Sun, 9/14/23)
• Indigenous Art Gallery Opens at Baltimore Center Stage (Baltimore Fishbowl, 8/24/23)
• New Indigenous Art Gallery Opens at Baltimore Center Stage (Broadway World, 8/18/23)
• Baltimore Center Stage celebrates 60th anniversary with annual gala (Afro News, 6/9/23)
• Baltimore Center Stage Announces Shared Space Initiative (American Theatre Magazine, 6/7/23)
• Baltimore Center Stage Previews 2023-24 Season (WBAL TV11, 3/31/23)
• Access Theater in All its Forms at Baltimore Center Stage (WBFF Fox Baltimore, 3/30/23)
• Baltimore Center Stage to Welcome Artists And Thought Leaders for Special Spring One Night Only Events (Broadway World, 2/24/23)
• SNF Agora and Baltimore Center Stage highlight intersections of music and activism (Johns Hopkins News-letter, 2/12/23)
• Mosaic Launches Inaugural New Play Festival (MD Theater Guide, 1/4/23)

2021

• ​​4 Theatres form Artistic Caucus to Open New Development Pathways (American Theatre Magazine, 12/1/21)
• Major Regional Theatre Form Joint Artistic Caucus in Support of Artistic Development (Broadway World, 12/1/21)
• Picture Gets Brighter for Underrepresented Filmmakers (PRWeb, 9/23/21)
• Christopher Newport University's Ferguson Center for the Arts Launches New Musicals Lab for Emerging Musical Theatre Artists (Broadway World, 6/14/21)
• Theatre Commentary: Who's Agitating for a Green New Theatre? (The Arts Fuse, 5/3/21)
• Baltimore Center Stage and Two Strikes Theatre Collective Partner for Bridge Series Reading (Broadway World, 4/22/21)
• Baltimore Center Stage Announces Honorees for 36th Annual Young Playwrights Festival (Broadway World, 4/16/21)
• Theatre review: 'Love/language' presented by REP Stage (MD Theatre Guide, 3/27/21)
• Next up for Baltimore Center Stage and the National Aquarium: A play about climate change (Baltimore Fishbowl, 3/26/21)
• What's Theatre Invested In? A Vision for a Regenerative Future (American Theatre Magazine, 3/15/21)

2020

• ​​Baltimore Center Stage announces its 36th Annual Young Playwrights Festival will be virtual (Baltimore Fishbowl, 12/23/20)
• Stage the Vote: How Theatres are Helping GOTV (American Theatre, 10/28/20)
• The Rep Commissions Voter Education Videos to Inform and Empower Voters (Broadway World, 10/23/20)
• Baltimore Center Stage Announces Antiracist Artistic Practices (American Theatre Magazine, 7/29/20)
• Theatre Streams Make Room for Moliere (and Imelda Marcos) (New York Times, 6/24/20)
• BWW Video: Watch Arena Stage's World Premiere Film May 22, 2020 (Broadway World, 6/13/20)
• What does a theater company do when it can't make theater? Make a film. (Washington Post, 6/11/20)
• Arena Stage's First World Premiere Film Opens the Spring/Summer Season, LOOKING FORWARD (Broadway World, 6/11/20)
• Arena Stage Announces World Premiere Films in Response to Health Crisis (Broadway World, 5/28/20)​
• Baltimore Center Stage's Innovative Online Resources for Public During Pandemic (Baltimore OUTloud, 5/22/20)
• A Climate of Change (American Theatre Magazine, 2/18/20)

2019

• Review: HEARTSPACE the earth, that is sufficient from The Welders (DC Theatre Scene, 11/22/19)
• ​The Welders' Annalisa Dias on 'Heartspace' and responding to impending and present climate disasters (DC Metro Theatre Arts, 11/13/19)
• HEARTSPACE from The Welders. 3.2 million year old Lucy to speak about our changing climate (DC Theatre Scene, 11/6/19)
• Baltimore's theatre companies are working toward a more active, inclusive future (Baltimore Magazine, 11/2019)
• Baltimore Center Stage announces The Baltimore Butterfly Sessions/(DC Metro Theatre Arts, 10/21/19)
• HEARTSPACE: A Performance Residency Caps Off the earth, that is sufficient (Broadway World, 10/16/19)
• Theatre Meets Community (Baltimore OUTloud, 9/27/19)
• The Welders present THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT (Broadway World, 9/6/19)
• Annalisa Dias Joins Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Staff (Broadway World, 7/23/19)
• Check Out SPACE on Ryder Farm's 2019 Resident Artists (Playbill.com, 5/7/19)
• Announcing the Creators of THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT (Broadway World, 2/26/19)
• Tank-aret Monthly Cabaret Series Announced (Broadway World, 2/12/19)

2018

• ​Ten Questions - Annalisa Dias (Dramatist, 10/26/18)
• Signature Theatre Stages a Long Look at Imperialism in 4380 Nights (Washington City Paper, 2/12/18)
• Women's Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard on Stage (New York Times, 2/5/18)
• Women's Voices Raised Again in the Nation's Capital (American Theatre, 2/5/18)
• Signature's '4380 Nights' play is gripping story of life in Guantanamo Bay (Washington Blade, 2/2/18)
• 4380 Nights at Signature Theatre (review) (DC Theatre Scene, 1/31/18)
• 4380 Nights (review) (TheatrerMania, 1/30/18)
• Friends and playwrights tell stories that call for action on stage (Washington Post, 1/25/18)
• In the moment: Interviews with Women's Voices Theater Festival playwrights (DC Metro Theater Arts, 1/21/18)
• TCG Names Recipients of Global Connections Travel Grants (American Theatre, 1/17/18)
• Signature Theatre of Arlington to present '4380 Nights' (Virginia Connection, 1/17/18)
• Award-Winning Playwrights Theresa Rebeck, Dominique Morrisseau, and More Share Women to Watch in Theatre (Playbill, 1/12/18)
• Women's Voices Theater Festival pulls back the curtain on gender parity (Northern Virginia Magazine, 1/9/18)
• Why Washington Needs a Women's Voices Theatre Festival (Washingtonian, 1/4/18)
• Second Women's Voices Theatre Festival arrives as #MeToo is in the spotlight (Washington Post, 1/4/18)​
• 22 Things To Do Around Washington This January (Washingtonian, 1/3/18)
• Stage Craft: How D.C. Does Theater (Where Traveler, 1/3/18)

2017

• ​Cast Set for Signature's World Premiere of 4,380 Nights (Playbill.com, 12/20/17)
• The 12 DC Things to Do We’re Most Excited About This Fall (Washingtonian, 9/7/17)
• 'Whipping, or the Football Hamlet' scores political points' (Washington Post, 8/16/17)
• 6 Theatre Workers You Should Know (American Theatre Magazine, 5/12/17)
• Todd Almond & Matthew Sweet’s New Musical Girlfriend to Make D.C. Premiere at Signature Theatre (Broadway.com, 3/30/17)
• D.C. Women's Voices Theater Festival to Return in 2018 (American Theatre Magazine, 3/3/17)
• Women's Voices Theater Festival will roar again in 2018 (Washington Post, 3/3/17)
• Dozens Of People Will Work To Preserve Federal Climate Data This Weekend (The DCist, 2/16/17)

Archive 

• ​​​Local Writers Team up with The Phillips Collection to Explore Black History (First Person Plural, 10/22/16) 
• The Staying Power of The Welders (American Theatre Magazine, 9/21/16)
• Artitude: Women's work at center stage (Naples Daily News, 9/13/16)
• New Works (Bonita Springs Weekly, 9/1/16)
• Local Playwrights to share commissioned work at The Phillips Collection (Public, 8/24/16)
• The Welders Pass the Torch to the Next Wave of DC Playwrights (The DCist, 8/3/16)
• DC, Baltimore, & VA-artists Tapped for TCG's Inaugural 'Rising Leaders of Color' Program (Broadway World, 6/21/16)
• TCG Announces Inaugural Cohort for Rising Leaders of Color Program (American Theatre Magazine, 6/20/16)
• How to Visit DC like a District Resident (American Theatre Magazine, 6/20/16)
• Gala Theatre Weaves a Swift and Taut 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' (Washington Post, 4/12/16)
• Annalisa Dias' One Word More at Flashpoint (review) (DC Theatre Scene, 4/11/16)
• Annalisa Dias on How Theater Can Change the World (DC Theatre Scene, 4/1/16)
• Annalisa Dias: ONE WORD MORE Presented Through CulturalDC's Mead Theatre Lab Program (CulturalDC, 3/8/16)
• Shadow Puppets Lend an Otherworldliness to 'Midsummer' (Washington Post, 1/20/16)
• ​Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Part 1: Annalisa Dias (DC Metro Theatre Arts, 1/12/16)
• Video Archive: Women of Welders 2.0 (Kennedy Center Website, 9/28/15)
• Signature Now Accepting Submissions for New Musical Theatre Lab (Playbill, 9/25/15)
• Signature Theater wants your new musical (Washington Post, 9/24/15)
• Livestreaming the 2nd Annual DC One-Minute Play Festival (HowlRound TV, 7/29/15)
• The Welders Get Ready to Pass the Torch to a New Crew of Theatremakers (American Theatre Magazine, 6/24/15)
• Who Are the New Welders? (Washington Post, 6/22/15)
• BU Alumni Profile (Boston University CORE Curriculum, 5/1/15)
• Visions of political outsiders, from Booth to poetic radicals (Washington Post, 4/21/15)
• Tyger Burns Bright at Mead Theatre Lab (DC Theatre Scene, 4/20/15)
• 'Tyger' at banished? Productions at Mead Theatre Lab (DC Metro Theatre Arts, 4/18/15)
• Annalisa Dias: CROOKED FIGURE (Cultural DC, 1/28/15)
• Mead Mentorship: Two Projects Flourish With Insight and Support (theatreWashington, 1/21/15)
• 'The State of Statehood': A Metro Connection Audio-Drama (WAMU 88.5 Metro Connection, 1/9/15)
• ​​​'Pol Pot & Associates, LLP' at Callan Theatre: a wonky, talky whodunit (Washington Post, 8/11/14)
• ObamAmerica - American New Writing Festival at Theatre503 (UK Theatre Network, 6/15/14)
• Source Festival: 'Mortality'- Six 10-Minute Plays (DC Metro Theatre Arts, 6/13/14)
• Mortality: 10 minute plays at Source Festival (DC Theatre Scene, 6/11/14)
• Source Festival 2014 (Cultural DC, 6/2/14)
• Grad Student Shares Her Art to Help Others (CUA Publications, 3/24/14)
• Salima Project Uses Theater to Fight HIV Stigma in Malawi (HIVplusmag.com, 6/18/13)
• Young American Artists to Travel to Malawi (Bitter Lemons, 6/10/13)
• American artists to jet into Malawi for documentary film on HIV/AIDS (Nyasa Times, 6/8/13)