Artist Profile
Darryl B. Hovis earned his M.A. in Theatre Production at Central Washington University and studied acting at the Professional Conservatory at UCSD under Anna Shapiro (Steppenwolf) as well as South Coast Repertory under Karen Hensel. He is the co-founder and former artistic director of the Culver City Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, where he developed an intensive arts program for high school students in theatre, film, music, and art, and has gone on to develop theatre programs at other Southern California high schools, as well as Theatre International at Leysin American School in Leysin, Switzerland. As a resident artist with Chance Theater, he serves as director of Teens Speak Up and TYA Producing Associate. TYA productions include Alice in Wonderland, The Legend(s) of Sleepy Hollow, and The Boy at the Edge of Everything. Other directing credits include Therese Raquin, The Angelina Project, and History of the American Film (Chance Theater), Rent, and The Threepenny Opera (Samohi Theatre), Machinal, and Resurrecting Antigone (UniTheatre), and The Miracle Worker, and Treehouses (AVPA).