began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Since 1983, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and over 100 productions of new works for the stage. She has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (directed at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (directed at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004), 27 Rue De Fleurs, My Occasion of Sin, Mabel Madness, Dogs of Rwanda. Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/Urban Stages have moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater, and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ Confirming the Search that Girl is in there Somewhere by Nadine Mazon won eight Audelco Nominations, one award, and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award. Eisa Davis’s Bulrusher was one of three nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The 2010 production of Langston in Harlem won several drama desk nominations, a John Calloway award, and several Audelco nominations, including a win for best music production of the year (2010), along with several other awards. Recently Character Man by Jim Brochu (2014) was nominated for a Drama Desk, and Outer Critic’s Circle award. While Honky and Unseamly ( 2016, 2017) were New York Times Critics Pick, Honky was produced on HBO. Mabel Madness by Trezana Beverley (2016) was nominated for an Audelco Award as was Bars and Measures (2019) for best ensemble production. The virtual one act festival Heroes and Villains (2021) won a Telly Award. Currently being produced at Urban Stages is CHARMED LIFE from Soul Singing to Opera Star by and starring Lori Brown Mirabal.
