Tommye Myrick producer and director of Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company has spent decades telling the stories of African American women and the disenfranchised through the Arts. She attended Xavier University in New Orleans. While there, her interest in political affairs led her to join Free Southern Theatre under the direction of John O’Neal, working with other politically like - minded artists as Ron Milner, Robert Costly, Denise Nicholas and Gil Moses. After graduating from Xavier University, Ms. Myrick attended the University of Michigan, where she obtained her master’s degree and immediately began working on her PhD. She later moved to New York City and began studying with renowned theater director, producer and lifelong mentor and friend, Gene Frankel. It was there that she made her stage and directorial debut and receiving nothing short of excellent reviews from the New York theater circle and critics. Years later she would return to her hometown of New Orleans and continue her work. She served as Assistant professor of Humanities as well as the Assistant Direct of African and African American Studies at Southern University at New Orleans. Ms. Myrick is a two-time winner of New Orleans’ Big Easy Entertainment Awards as Best Director of the year. She was also the recipient of the Big Easy Entertainment 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatre. Most recently she served at the consulting producer of Le petit Theatre These days she spends her time mounting Voices in the Dark 30th season, entitled Trade Winds .
