RAYMOND OLOSAN-MORADA CALDWELL

(561) 537-6669 /raymondocaldwell@gmail.com/www.raymondocaldwell.com

EDUCATION

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio

Masters of Fine Arts- MFA
2006, Summa Cum Laude
Acting & Devising/Producing New Work

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville, Florida

Bachelor of Fine Arts- BFA
2002
Acting/Musical Theatre

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL ARTS STRATEGY, CAMBRIDGE, MA

2019 - 2020
HARVARD UNIVERSITY - CHIEF EXECUTIVE PROGRAM

AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR THEATRE & EDUCATION, Washington, DC

2012 – 2015
New Work Development

KENNEDY CENTER, Washington, DC

2012
Developing Arts Curriculum

ARENA STAGE, Washington, DC

Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship
2009 - 2010
Community Engagement/Outreach & Education

TRICYCLE THEATRE, London, England

Artistic Intern
2008 (Summer)
Educational Outreach

SITI Company, Columbus, Ohio

Residency
2007 (Fall)
Viewpoints& Suzuki

SEASIDE MUSIC THEATRE, Daytona Beach, Florida

Intern
2001(Summer)
Artistic Management
TEACHING EXPEREINCE

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY, Baltimore MD

Guest Lecturer
Fall 2019
Course:
Craft of Acting 1

HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC

Acting- Theatre Arts, Lecturer
Musical Theatre- Theatre Arts, Lecturer
Arts Administration- Theatre Arts, Lecturer
Resident Director
2013 - 2019
Courses:
Acting-Styles
Advanced Acting Scene Study
Fundraising for the Arts
Advanced Character Scene Study
Play Reading/Analysis
Musical Theatre Technique
Rehearsal & Performance (Developing New Work)
Introduction to Theater
Introduction to Acting (Non-Majors)

Committees (Departmental):
Curriculum Committee
Academic Standards & Practices/Student Advisory
Departmental-Recruitment/Admissions
Owen Dodson Award Committee
Summer Intensive

Committees (University):
Division of Fine Arts Executive Committee

US DEPARTMENT OF STATE- CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Contractor: Artist-Educator
2009-2019
Effective Public Speaking & Communication & Applied Theatre

BROAD FUTURES
Contractor: Artist-Educator
2015-2020
Curriculum Design/Implementation

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CAMP ARENA STAGE
Counselor/Instructor
2009-2016
Acting/Musical Theatre

INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Interlochen, Michigan

Guest Artist
Spring 2014 & Fall 2012
Developing/Devising New Work Through Community Engagement

GLASGOW MIDLLE SCHOOL, Fairfax Virginia

Teaching-Artist
2012 - 2013
Playwrighting & Devising New Work

BURKE SCHOOL, Burke Virginia

Teaching-Artist
2010-2013
Playwrighting/Devising (Student’s w/Emotional/Behavioral Special Needs)

KIPP- COLLEGE PREP, Washington, DC

Teaching-Artist
2009-2011
Playwrighting & Devising New Work

THE FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, Washington, DC

Teaching Artist
2011
Playwrighting

THE WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING, Washington, DC

Teaching-Artist
2010-2011
Playwrighting & Devising New Work

KINGSBURY DAY SCHOOL, Washington, DC

Teaching-Artist
2009-2010
Playwrighting & Devising New Work (Student’s w/SpecialNeeds/ADD/ADHD)

JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, Washington, DC

Teaching-Artist
2009-2010
Playwrighting & Devising New Work

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio

TA/Lecturer
2006 – 2009

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 Courses:
Introduction to Theatre (Majors & Non-Majors)
Introduction to Acting (Majors & Non-Majors)
Introduction to Voice (Majors)
African-American Theatre History (History/Literature/Criticism)

PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE

THEATER ALLIANCE
Producing Artistic Director & Executive Director
2018 – Present

THEATER ALLIANCE
Associate Artistic Director
2018
Responsible for artistic and business leadership of the organization in conjunction with Artistic Director.

THEATRE WASHINGTON
Helen Hayes Judge
2015 – 2018
Responsible for adjudicating the success of professional theatre throughout the DC Metro Area and reporting
findings to Theatre Washington.

SHARED WORLD ART PROJECT (SWAP), Washington, DC

Board Chair/ Lead Artist-Educator
2013 – Present
Responsible for leading SWAP’s board, developing organizational mission, organizational branding,
fundraising, program development, curriculum development, and partner recruitment/retention.

ARENA STAGE, Washington, DC

Community Engagement Partnership Manager/Artist-Educator
2009 – 2014
Responsible for actively seeking out and recruiting partners for Community Engagement programming,
managing recruitment, partner development, partner communication, registration, and retention for income-
generating programming at Arena Stage. Additionally assists in the creation and implementation of
programming working as an artist-educator, director, or performer in varied programming.

Initiatives while at Arena Stage Include: Dramatically raising income goals, consistently meeting/exceeding
income goals, expanding programming through new partnerships throughout Washington DC metro area,
designing curriculum/programming, cultivating partnerships and implementing international curriculum
articulated through programming in Kolkata India, New Delhi India, Putna India, Hyderabad India,
Mumbai India, Chennai India, Kiev Ukraine, Zagreb Croatia, and Lima Peru.

DC ARTS COLABORATIVE, Washington, DC

Organizational Representative- Arena Stage
2009-2014

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 Responsible for cultivating relationships with arts organizations and social-service oriented non-profits
throughout the DC Metro Area identifying opportunities for collaboration in programming and presentation.

THE HEGIRA, Washington, DC

Associate Producer
Responsible for aiding the Artistic Director in artistic strategy, season selection, season implementation,
casting, cultivating & maintaining relationships with actors/directors/designers, board development &
recruitment.

Initiatives while with the Hegira Include: producing two of the most financially successful seasons, developing
and launching tour of Paige in Full: a one-woman show by DC artist Paige Hernandez, earning the Hegira
its first Helen Hays Recommendation for In the Blood.
2009 – 2012

PRESENTATIONS

OUR VILLAGE, OUR BIAS, (US DEPARTMENT OF STATE) KOLKATA, INDIA

2020

DIVERSITY BEYOND BORDERS, (US DEPARTMENT OF STATE) KOLKATA, INDIA

2020

ARTS CITIZENSHIP TALKS (ACTNOW), COLLEGE PARK, MD

“RACE AND CULTURE THROUGH THE LENS OF EURIPIDES”
2019

SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART SYMPOSIUM, BOWIE MD

KEYNOTE: ART AS ACTIVISM
2019

ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON: STORY SALON, WASHINGTON DC

WILLIE LEFTWICH CONVERSATION
2019

HOWARD UNIVERSITY (NEW WORKS LAB), Washington, DC

“Trojan Women: The Women of Your World”
2015

THEATRE IN OUR SCHOOLS (TIOS), Washington, DC

2014

“Developing Community-Based Theatre to Affect Change”

2014

NATIONAL CIVIL WAR CONFERENCE, Washington, DC

“Examining Civil War History Through Contemporary Myth”
2014

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 DC BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL, Washington, DC
“The Mojo & the Sayso- Aishah Rahman”
2010

NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL, Winston-Salem, NC

“Layla’s Dream- Ntozake Shange”
2002

PUBLICATIONS

The Changeover - Howlround (2019)

How We Got On- An Interactive Resource Guide (2015)
Theatre for Social Change- Voices of Now: India
(2014)
Theatre for Social Change- Voices of Now: Croatia
(2014)
Examining Civil War History Through Contemporary Myth (2013)
African-American Theatre History- From the Plantation to the Mountaintop (2013)
Why My Art is Deemed ‘Black-Art’ & Why I don’t Mind (2010)

HONORS/AWARDS

DC Metro Theatre Arts: Outstanding Production: Zomo the Rabbit (2020)

Helen Hayes Nomination: Outstanding Ensemble: Day of Absence (2019)
Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Ensemble: Blood at the Root (2019)
Helen Hayes Award: Best Production: Blood at the Root (2019)
Helen Hayes Award: Best Director: Blood at the Root (2019)
Helen Hayes: Outstanding Ensemble: The Frederick Douglass Project (2018)
Washington Post: Best of Theater 2018: The Frederick Douglass Project (2018)
DC Metro Theatre Arts: Outstanding Productions: The Frederick Douglass Project (2018)
DC Metro Theatre Arts Best of University Productions: The Children’s Hour (2015)
DC Metro Theatre Arts Best of University Productions: Anything Goes (2015)

Helen Hayes Recommended Productions: In the Blood (2011), The Frederick Douglass Project (2018),
Blood at the Root (2018), Les Deux Noirs (2019), Day of Absence (2019), Zomo the Rabbit (2020)

AVAILABLE COURSE OFFERINGS

Introduction to Theatre
Introduction to Acting
Advanced Character Scene Study
Period Styles Acting (Greek Drama to Contemporary Realism)
Introduction to Voice
Advanced Voice (Focus in Linklater or Lessac)
Movement for the Actor (Focus in Viewpoints, Suzuki, Laban)
Devising & Creating New Work
Solo Performance: The Art of the One-Man Show
Directing for the Stage

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 Theatre History
African-American Theatre History
Musical Theatre Technique
Musical Theatre History (Operetta to Contemporary Musical Theatre)
Kinesthetic Character Development

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT/DRAMATURGY CREDITS

City in Transition: The Quadrant Series (Washington, DC) - 2021

Strategize, Organize, Mobilize: A Protest in 8 (Washington, DC) - 2020
How We Got On, Forum Theatre (Washington, DC) - 2014
How the B-Side Won, Cultural DC (Washington, DC)- 2014
Christmas Gift, Joy of Motion (Washington, DC) - 2013
I Too Sing America: The Life and Poetry of Langston Hughes, Howard University (Washington, DC)-
2013
Read, White, and Blue, Cultural DC (Washington, DC) - 2013
The Sound of Smoke, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)- 2013
House Halfway, Source Theatre (Washington, DC)- 2012
The Contract, African Continuum (New York, NY) - 2012
The Masquerade is Over, DC Black Theatre Festival (Washington, DC)- 2011
Paige in Full, theHegira/ National Tour (Washington, DC) – 2010
Pony, Projects (New York, NY) - 2010

DIRECTING CREDITS

* Nollywood Dreams, Roundhouse Theatre (Bethesda, MD) – 2022

* I Was Looking at the Ceiling…, In Series/Theater Alliance (Washington, DC) - 2022
Thanksgiving Play, Olney Theatre (Olney, MD) - 2021
The Blackest Battle, Theater Alliance (Washington, DC) – 2021
City in Transition: The Quadrant Series (Washington, DC) – 2021
Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Round House (Bethesda, MD) - 2020
Strategize, Organize, Mobilize: A Protest in 8 (Washington, DC) – 2020
Zomo the Rabbit, Imagination Stage (Bethesda, MD) - 2020
Ay, Gerald!, Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) - 2020
Everybody Black, Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) - 2019
30 Meter Telescope Project, Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) - 2019
Day of Absence, Theater Alliance (Washington, DC) - 2019
The Diary of Anne Frank, National Players (Tour) - 2019
Les Deux Noirs, Mosaic Theater Company (Washington, DC) - 2019
Blood at the Root, Theater Alliance (Washington, DC) - 2018
The Fredrick Douglass Project, Solas Nua (Washington, DC) - 2018
Antigone, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2017
All the Way Live!, Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) - 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2017
In The Heights, Montgomery College (Rockville, MD) - 2016
The Children’s Hour, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2015
Anything Goes, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2015

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 Trojan Women: The Women of Your World, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2014
How the B-Side Won, Cultural DC (Washington, DC)- 2014
Fabulation, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2013
I Too Sing America: The Life and Poetry of Langston Hughes, Howard University (DC) - 2013
The Sound of Smoke, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)- - 2013
Breathe Boom, Howard University (Washington, DC) - 2012
House Halfway, Source Theatre (Washington, DC)- 2012
The Great Dismal, Inkwell Theatre (Washington, DC)- 2012
K Comma Joesph, Inkwell Theatre (Washington, DC)- 2012
Color Between the Lines, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)- 2012
Oscar Grant is Dead, and I’m Terrified, Source Theatre (Washington, DC)- 2011
In the Blood, Flashpoint DC (Washington, DC)- 2011
This is Me, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)- 2011
Safe Keeping, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)- 2011
I Dream, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)- 2011
The Masquerade is Over, DC Black Theatre Festival (Washington, DC)- 2011
Black/Anger or The Whites, Tour 2009-2010
* Upcoming

ACTING CREDITS

SHOW ROLE THEATRE

Thoughts of a Colored Man Happiness Arena Stage
The Whites One-Man Show Tour
Prometheus Bound Prometheus Arena Stage
The Contract Paul African Continuum
SPP 2011 Ensemble Arena Stage
The Death of Bessie Smith Orderly Arena Stage
The Mojo and the Sayso Pastor African Continuum
SPP 2010 Ensemble Arena Stage
Blues for an Alabama Sky Doc ACTCO
Skin Diver Ensemble Arena Stage
Grandchildren…Buffalo Solider Brent Robe NMAI
Finding Words Company Phoenix Children’s Co
I’ll Take Romance Chi-Chi Lopez Evolution Theatre
Orange/Blue Christopher Kevin Root Studio
The Exonerated Robert Nadine McGuire
Love Letters Andrew Media Civic Theatre
WASP Ensemble Phillips Center
Hamlet Guildenstern Nadine McGuire
Midnight at Worlds End Guy Hippodrome Theatre
Anything Goes Ensemble Constans Theatre
Betty’s Summer Vacation Voice 3 Phillips Center
The Colored Museum Ensemble Stadium Studio
Taming of the Shrew Vincentio International Tour

Lavender Lizards & Lilac- Javier US Tour

Landmines: Layla’s Dream

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 Day of Absence John/Reverend/Rastus Constans Theatre
Tortilla Moon Odd Job Florida Stage

REFERRENCES

Kim James Bey

Howard University
Former Chair
(703) 919-1740
kbey@howard.edu

Johamy Morales
Seattle Children’s Theatre
Director of Education
(619) 203-5831
johamym@sct.org

Sohini Das
US Department of State – Kolkata
Local Cultural Affairs Officer
+91 98310 8168
DasSX@state.gov