Grants Writer

• Sep 2022 - Present

Writing Mentor

• Sep 2020 - Present

• Responsible for reading multiple drafts of select plays. •Worked one on one with playwrights. Through conversation and written feedback helped craft the students plays to get ready for rehearsal and production. • Responsible for reading multiple drafts of select plays. •Worked one on one with playwrights. Through conversation and written feedback helped craft the students plays to get ready for rehearsal and production.

Playwright

• Sep 2015 - Present

Playwright Bio CAYENNE DOUGLASS has had work developed and/or produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Brave New World Repertory Theatre, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Big Apple Theatre Festival, ESPA Primary Stages Detention Series, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, The Players Theatre, FEAST: A Performance Series, Edmunds Driftwood Players in Seattle and “Ain’t I a Woman” in Louisville, KY. Cayenne has participated in The First Stage Residency through The Drama League, The Barn Arts Residency in Bass Harbor, ME and The Emerging Artists Residency at The Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN. She has been published by Smith & Kraus in three monologue anthologies. In 2019 Cayenne was a Kennedy Center Region 1 finalist for The Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award and in 2020 was a semi-finalist for that same award. Cayenne's short play, Variable Rates of Kindness was recently chosen for Take Ten Theatre Masters, a MFA 10 minute playwriting competition, and as a result, her play will be published in the Theatre Masters Take Ten 2020 anthology by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. Additionally, this spring Maiden Voyage was recognized nationally by the Kennedy Center. Maiden Voyage is the second place recipient of The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and was also recognized for distinguished achievement for The Rosa Parks Award and The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. Cayenne has just finished her course work for her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University. AWARDS/LABS/RESIDENCIES • WP, Semi-Finalist 2022 • Theatre Masters Visionary Award 2022 • Core Apprentice: New Plays on Campus, Playwrights’ Center, Finalist 2020, 2021, 2022 • Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Finalist 2021 • The Kilroy List 2020 • Take Ten Theatre Masters 2020 • The City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, Finalist, 2020 • Emerging Artist Residency at Tofte Lake Ely, MN 2018 • Women’s Work Lab, New Perspectives Theater, 2017 Show less

Writing Instructor/Teaching Artist

• Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

• Designed an original syllabus and taught five sections of a six-week classes: Playwriting 1 (2 sections) Screenwriting 1, Writing for Stage and Screen (2 Sections) class via Zoom. Each session met once weekly for 90 minutes and had roughly 15 students in each section. • Guided students through specific exercises on structure, character, setting, and dialogue writing. • Leveraged creative exercises into writing the 10-minute play. • Conducted in class feedback sessions and provided verbal and written commentary. Show less

Teaching Artist

• Jan 2021 - Mar 2021

• In association with The Massachusetts Young Playwright Project I was partnered with The International School of Boston where I worked to teach workshops on playwriting supplementing what the students are already learning. • In between sessions I mentored students individually by reading drafts and providing feedback. • In association with The Massachusetts Young Playwright Project I was partnered with The International School of Boston where I worked to teach workshops on playwriting supplementing what the students are already learning. • In between sessions I mentored students individually by reading drafts and providing feedback.

Teaching Fellow

• Jan 2019 - May 2019

Taught Intro to Creative Writing. I designed my own syllabus and taught a three-hour class that met once weekly. We read a diverse cannon of writers and I guided the students through exercises that focused on structure, character, setting, and dialogue writing all of which were building blocks for three capstone projects: the personal essay, a creative non-fiction short story, and a 10-minute play. Taught Intro to Creative Writing. I designed my own syllabus and taught a three-hour class that met once weekly. We read a diverse cannon of writers and I guided the students through exercises that focused on structure, character, setting, and dialogue writing all of which were building blocks for three capstone projects: the personal essay, a creative non-fiction short story, and a 10-minute play.

Teaching Artist

• Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

I participated in an 8-week Residency at P.S. 316 in Crown Heights, NYC where I worked with 1st graders to create an animal friend (real or imagined) that had a special skill to helped serve the needs of the community. Each child drew a picture of their animal friend and wrote a poem about their contribution to the greater good. At the end of the residency we edited their writing and corelated their art into a published poetry anthology. I participated in an 8-week Residency at P.S. 316 in Crown Heights, NYC where I worked with 1st graders to create an animal friend (real or imagined) that had a special skill to helped serve the needs of the community. Each child drew a picture of their animal friend and wrote a poem about their contribution to the greater good. At the end of the residency we edited their writing and corelated their art into a published poetry anthology.

Director Of Marketing And Business Development

• Jan 2015 - Aug 2017

BurritoBoards, a boutique agency representing an exciting and diverse roster of artists/visualizers for all styles of storyboards * shooting boards * animatics & test production * 3D art * animation * finished illustration * pencils to production * Our talented group of creative artists collaborate with clients in advertising, marketing & PR; think-tank visualizing for corporate and educational retreats; shooting boards for commercial, television & film production; character and environmental designs for video games; art for mobile and web/interactive. BurritoBoards Creative, Inc. is certified as a women’s business enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) It is all possible. Be creative! Show less

Sales Representative

• Jun 2013 - Oct 2015

Acted as a liaison between animation studios and agency producers, created reels, pitched decks, solicited work for our studios, maintained good agency relations, set up creative calls between the agency and studio, updated the production team on new developments, answered questions related to budget and work flow, attended and organized screenings, travel to Chicago for conferences and to meet and maintain agency contacts.

Office Manager/ Social Media Outreach

• Oct 2011 - Jun 2013

Updated the company Instagram and Facebook page, directed calls from individual artists to their agent, scheduled meetings, and connected studios to the reps in the office.

Curator and Co-Creator

• May 2011 - Aug 2011

Camera phones are like a little black book. They hold pictures that are powerful, provocative, shocking, momentous, amusing and sometimes... just plain weird. LittleZGroup took these pictures off camera phones and put them in the real world to air all their secrets and created Click Send: an exhibition exclusively featuring camera phone pictures. The concept of the show was a multi-artist exhibition of digital images taken solely on cell phones. This was an opportunity for gallery attendees to reflect on the cultural significance and visual storytelling that emerges from these photographs. Click Send was a to benefit show for Rise For The Stars, a school dedicated to the education of Autistic children. Written up in The Village Voice and CBS News Show less

Production Manager

• Oct 2007 - Dec 2010

On a per project basis: Contacted talent and crew, updated the team on new developments, worked closely with catering, art department, script supervisor, and the director. Created Pre-Production Books, location scouted, negotiated fees, and booked spaces. On a per project basis: Contacted talent and crew, updated the team on new developments, worked closely with catering, art department, script supervisor, and the director. Created Pre-Production Books, location scouted, negotiated fees, and booked spaces.

Associate Producer

• 2010 - Aug 2010

Delilah Dix and Her Bag of Trix

Producer

• Dec 2009 - Jan 2010

Billy Eichner MUSIC VIDEO SPOOF “Forest Hills State of Mind” Featured on the NBC Today Show - Director: Chris Chan Roberson

Production Coordinator Intern

• Nov 2009 - Dec 2009

Project Based Job: “The Power of Words” for Amnesty International Directed by Rohitash Roa Project Based Job: “The Power of Words” for Amnesty International Directed by Rohitash Roa

Junior Sales Representative

• Sep 2007 - Sep 2008

Maintained the database, phones, set up meetings, general organization. Maintained the database, phones, set up meetings, general organization.