The Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP) is pleased to announce that Kimberly Faith Hickman has accepted the position of artistic director of the Playhouse. Hickman will begin at OCP full time on June 1, 2016 and is filling the position upon the dismissal of OCP's most recent Artistic Director Hilary Adams. Susan Baer Collins, former OCP associate artistic director, has been acting as interim artistic director since last December and she will work with Hickman in the transition. Hickman has guest directed two productions at OCP-Enron and Jesus Christ Superstar (which she also choreographed), both in the 2014/2015 season. She also co-directed the most recent tour of the Nebraska Theatre Caravan's
The Omaha Community Playhouse has hired New York-based freelance director and choreographer Kimberly Faith Hickman as its new artistic director. Hickman replaces Hilary Adams, who was dismissed by Playhouse officials in December. When Adams was hired in 2013, Hickman was the second-place candidate, said Playhouse President Tim Schmad. She subsequently returned as a guest director for two shows — “Enron” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” — in the 2014-15 season. She also was the director for last fall’s Nebraska Theatre Caravan tour of “A Christmas Carol.” “Once she wasn’t offered the job, she still had the enthusiasm and the love for the Playhouse to come back,” Schmad said. “A lot of people woul
What does it say about our world today when a young black woman can shout, “He was minding his own business!” and we can finish the sad story in our heads? Christina Anderson’s BlackTop Sky begins just this way, in mid-sentence, as Ida (Aziza Macklin) recounts the story of a young black man being assaulted by the police. Ida is headstrong and idealistic but young—in fact, she has reached at a pivotal moment of her life, having turned 18 and now deciding where to point her life next. Does she stay to help her mother in her ailing health, which Ida seems to resent? Does she head into the unknown to begin building her own life? Her doting boyfriend, Wynn (Landon Horton), offers Ida a chance to
