Mindy childress herman
Producer. Director. Consultant.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mindy Childress Herman is a director, producer and administrator who specializes in collaborating with artists to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama.
Over the past 25 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She is a co-producer at Micro Theater Cleveland, free pop-up festivals of short performances in small spaces throughout the city. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours (including Spoon River Anthology, Glengarry Glen Ross and Lone Star) for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. She was the Director of Marketing and Communications at Cleveland Public Theatre from 2006-2010 and the Director of Marketing at DANCECleveland from 2010-2012. She has worked with The Beck Center for the Arts, Near West Theatre, Boulevard Theatre, TITLEWave Theatre Company, Dobama Theatre and Talespinner Children’s Theatre, among many others.
She studied Theatre and Film at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She continued her education with multiple National Arts Strategies/Stanford School of Business certificates and participated in several Theatre Communications Group conferences across the country. For almost 20 years, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. In addition to her professional theatre and arts administration work, she is a principal in Footsteps Media, LLC, an audio fiction podcast production company. She directed and produced the first season of The Mystery of Easter Island, an historical fiction podcast about the life of pioneering explorer Katherine Routledge. She helped adapt the script for television and it was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival and the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition. She also serves as a script consultant for playwrights and screenwriters around the world and serves as an adjudicator for various festivals and grantmakers. She is passionate about working to maintain Cleveland’s reputation as a leader in the arts on the national landscape.
representative work
REGIONAL THEATRE
- Micro Theater Cleveland*, Director, Producer
- Welcome to the Club*, BorderLight Theatre Festival, Producer
- Experts in a Dying Field*, Test Flight at Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT), Producer
- Pandemonium (2001-2025)* CPT, Director, Producer, Publicity
- The Text Kitchen, Umbrella Theatre, Producer
- Becomes You*, TITLEWave Theatre Company, Director
- Holiday Hotline*, Detroit Avenue Arts, Director
- Lost Prospect*, Ingenuity Festival, Co-Director
- Overtones^, Charenton Theater Company, Director
- The Santaland Diaries, CPT, Director
- Lick, But Don’t Swallow*+ CPT, Director
- Waiting for Lefty^, Charenton Theatre Company, Producer
- Lone Star^, Charenton Theatre Company, Director
- Spoon River Anthology^, Charenton Theatre Company, Adapter, Director
- AtTENtion Span* CPT, Director
- The Dumbwaiter^, Charenton Theatre Company, Director, Producer
- No Exit ^, Charenton Theatre Company, Producer
- Oleanna, Boulevard Theatre, Assistant Director
- The Bald Soprano^, Charenton Theatre Company, Producer
- Mere Mortals, Dobama Theatre, Assistant Director
(*World Premiere ^Touring Production +Staged Reading)
AUDIO DRAMA
- Munchen, Minnesota, Footsteps Media, Director
- The Mystery of Easter Island, Footsteps Media, Director, Producer
TELEVISION
- The Kishka Show, DJ Kishka Productions, Director, Producer
LEADERSHIP
- Producer, Micro Theater Cleveland 2024-present
- Executive Director, The Umbrella Theatre 2021-present
- Principal, Footsteps Media, 2018-present
- Director, The Dark Room at CPT 2007-present
- Board Member, Talespinner Childrens Theatre, 2011-2013
- Director of Marketing, DANCECleveland, 2010-2012
- Director of Communications, CPT, 2006-2010
- Producing Director, Charenton Theatre Company, 2004-2006
- Chair, Friends of Near West Theatre, 2001-2002