Tyler Thomas is a theater director and arts leader from a small town in Louisiana, currently based in NYC. Tyler has developed and staged new work with The Vineyard Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights, Geva Theatre, Playwrights Center, Northern Stage, New Ohio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Flea, and Lincoln Center Education. She is a Susan Stroman Directing Award recipient with the Vineyard Theatre (2020) and most recently, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award recipient (2025). She is also a former 2050 Fellow with New York Theater Workshop, Foeller Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival, member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage, and has been a Visiting Artist at the Athens Conservatoire in Greece, and Guest Artist at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and NYU Tisch. She holds a BFA in Drama and MA in Arts Politics from the Tisch School of the Arts.
From 2021-2025, Tyler served as the Associate Artistic Director for the national arts and health initiative, Arts for EveryBody, supporting 18 communities across the country to in the creation of 18 distinct public art projects designed to improve community health. Since 2023, Tyler has served as the Artistic Director of the We Shall Someday Project, which takes performances of the musical We Shall Someday into schools, heritage sites, and cultural venues along the 1961 Freedom Rides route to amplify the historical significance of the Freedom Rides and support ongoing efforts of local community activism today.
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