Dawn Meredith Simmons

Co-Founder and Artistic Director, The Front Porch Arts Collective

Boston

Dawn Meredith Simmons is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Front Porch Arts Collective, a new black-led theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater. Ms. Simmons is also a director, playwright and an arts administrator. She has worked with: Brandeis University, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, Bad Habit Productions, Anthem Theatre, Boston Public Works, Lyric Stage Company, New Exhibition Room, Suffolk University, Fresh Ink Theatre, Dorchester Fringe Festival, GAN-e-meed Theatre Project, The Theatre Offensive, Our Place Theatre Project, Mill 6, Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Boston Theatre Works, and As Yet To Be Theatre. Ms. Simmons is Co-Artistic Director of New Exhibition Room and a founding member of the Small Theatre Alliance Boston, and Executive Director of StageSource.