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Director and Dramaturge, Che'Rae Adams has been developing and directing new plays for almost two decades. She is currently the Producing Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Writer's Center. She has been the Development Executive with Playhouse Pictures Studios, Co-Artistic Director of the award winning Road Theatre Company, partner in Two Girls Productions and Managing producer for the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.


She has worked in development for Playhouse Pictures Studios, Showtime Networks, Alliance/Atlantis Film & TV, First Lady Productions, and Melba-Jake Productions. Her love for new work began while assisting the Staff Producer at The Mark Taper Forum where she worked on the writing workshop of the Pulitzer Prize winning Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika. Also for the Taper, she coordinated the 1991 Taper Lab Series and Mentor Playwright's Reading Series where she directed the first reading of Alice Tuan's Dim Sums.

While training in the theatre, she assisted many prominent theatre directors including Tom Hulce and Jane Jones on the premiere of another Pulitzer Prize winner, The Cider House Rules, at The Seattle Repertory Theatre; David Saint on Travels With my Aunt, also at SRT; Steven Hollis on the premiere of Tennessee William's Notebook of Trigorin, starring Lynn Redgrave at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and John DiFusco on both the 10th and 20th anniversary productions of Tracers.

Che'Rae has directed the West Coast premiere productions of several new plays including Chesapeake, by Lee Blessing for Venice Theatre Works; Freak of Nature by Ken Hanes at The Road Theatre Company; Back Bar by Steve Simon and Jose Gregorio, both at the Lee Strasberg Theatre; Fixing Frank by Ken Hanes at the Celebration Theatre (which is now a feature film); Pandora's Trunk at Los Angeles Theatre Center starring Kim Fields and at the National Black Theatre Festival starring Tanya Pinkins; co-authored and directed Fish Stories, which premiered at the HBO Workspace and went on to the Duplex Cabaret in New York; My Brooklyn Hamlet at the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival; From Bonkers to Botox, at the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival, and the Stella Adler Theatre (which was just optioned by Universal TV); Nothing to See Here starring Carlos Alazraqui at the Comedy Central Space (based on his character from Reno 911); and Flying StandBy by Alexandra McHale at the John Anson Ford Theatre. She is currently directing Tender by Abi Morgan for Syzygy Theatre Company in February, developing and directing Rock and Roll Superstar by Adria Dawn, and developing and directing Walking Thru the Fire by John DiFusco ("Tracers") at the Hayworth Theatre in June, She has also directed for Cincinnai Opera Outreach, Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Highways Performance Space, and the Los Angeles Edge of the World Theatre Festival.

In addition, Che'Rae has donated her time to her artistic community by serving on the board of several non profit organizations such as The Road Theatre Company, Venice Theatre Works, and The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. She is also a member and facilitator of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, West which is held annually at the Pasadena Playhouse.

She has been on the faculty at UCLA Extension, The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, The Learning Annex, and The Lankershim Arts Center. She has taught acting and writing workshops at various institutions such as Catholic University, The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (co-taught with Cynthia Hogle), The University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music, and California State University, Fullerton, The California African American Musuem, and The Susan McIntyre Playwrights Festival. She has an MFA in directing from The University of Cincinnai, College Conservatory of Music and a BA from California State University, Northridge.

She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Los Angeles Writer's Center, which serves playwright's in the Los Angeles by providing them with a public reading series, which is co-produced by Syzygy Theatre Company and The Sidewalk Studios Theatre in Toluca Lake.

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