Vinecia Coleman is a playwright, actor, and director based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose artistic aim as a writer is to tell stories that focus on the Black female experience. Her plays have been developed at Boise Contemporary Theatre’s BIPOC Playwright Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, id Theater’s Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, Mad Cow Theater, and others. Her play Christiana Lysistrata had its premiere at Main Street Players in Miami, FL in early 2024. She holds an MFA with an emphasis in Dramatic Writing and Directing from the University of Idaho and a BS in Microbiology from Iowa State University.
As an actor, she has worked at Jungle Theater (A Jumping Off Point, The Courtroom, Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley), Penumbra Theatre (Wine in the Wilderness, What I Learned in Paris, Weathering), Pillsbury House Theatre (Jimmy & Lorraine: A Musing), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (The Odyssey), Portland Playhouse (What I Learned in Paris), and more.
As an actor, she has worked at Jungle Theater (A Jumping Off Point, The Courtroom, Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley), Penumbra Theatre (Wine in the Wilderness, What I Learned in Paris, Weathering), Pillsbury House Theatre (Jimmy & Lorraine: A Musing), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (The Odyssey), Portland Playhouse (What I Learned in Paris), and more.
Awards & Memberships
GREAT PLAINS THEATER COMMONS CONFERENCE PLAYWRIGHT / 2024
Play presented: Being Black Outside SEVEN DEVILS PLAYWRIGHT CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALIST / 2024 Play submitted: Being Black Outside SEVEN DEVILS PLAYWRIGHT CONFERENCE WINNER / 2019 Play presented: Two Minutes After Dawn BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER BIPOC FESTIVAL / 2022 Play presented: Being Black Outside PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER MANY VOICES MENTORSHIP FINALIST / 2021
DIVERSE VOICES PLAYWRITING FINALIST / 2020
Illinois State University Play Presented: Two Minutes After Dawn SCRIPT TO SCREEN SERIES / 2020 Permafrost Theatre Collective Piece Presented: Whatever This Is OREGON SHAKESPEARE'S REX RABOLD ACTING FELLOWSHIP / 2017 DRAMATISTS GUILD MEMEBER ACTORS' EQUITY MEMEBER MINNESOTA PLAYWRIGHT CABAL MEMEBER TRANSATLANTIC LOVE AFFAIR COMPANY MEMEBER |