Lydia Fort is a director and educator whose credits include Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Jump (Actors Express), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Theater Emory), The Mountaintop (Perseverance Theatre), Bright Half Life (Diversionary Theatre ), RIP.TIED (freeFall Theatre), Frida Liberada (Urban Stages), and she was the Associate Director for King Hedley II and Seven Guitars (Cygnet Theatre). Lydia has also directed new work for Hangar Theatre, Women’s Project Theatre, Women Center Stage, Southern Rep, Urban Stages, New Federal Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, McCarter Theatre YouthInk! Festival, New Black Fest, 48 Hours in Harlem, and the Fire This Time Festival. Lydia was a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Theatre for a New Audience’s American Directors Project, a Women’s Project Theater Fellow, a TCG New Generations Future Leaders Grantee, New York Theatre Workshop Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, and a US delegate to the International Theatre Institute’s World Congress in China. Lydia holds a BA from New York University and received both a Certificate in Arts Management for the Performing Arts and a MFA in Directing from the University of Washington.