Bria Walker-Rhoze

a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Acting at Carnegie Mellon University and Resident Artist at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. Selected acting credits: The Garbologists, Crossroad, The Royale, Pop!, Marcus or the Secret of Sweet (City Theatre); The Royale (St. Louis Repertory Theatre); Fires in the Mirror, The Bougie Gentleman, Romeo & Juliet (Pittsburgh Public Theatre Playtime Series); From the Mississippi Delta (Triad Stage); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (The Rep at Point Park); Saints Tour (Bricolage Production Company). Selected directing credits: co-director of Crowns (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre); Fury (Parker Theatre); staged reading Off With Her Maidenhead (The Pitch series for Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); Emilia (Pitt); for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (SUNY New Paltz); Avenue Q (SUNY New Paltz & Pitt). Selected writing & producing credits: Crossroad (City Theatre Spotlight Series); You think the arts don’t matter? What about quarantine? (Pittsburgh-Post Gazette op-ed); Chant (The Monologue Project); Black Lives in Focus (Pitt Initiative). Education: MFA - Denver Center for the Performing Arts (National Theatre Conservatory); BFA - Wright State University.