
About Grace
Grace Wagner (she/her) is a director, choreographer, and creative collaborator working to ensure all spaces she collaborates in lead with true compassion, genuine communication, and openness to change for the better.
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Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, Grace began performing at age two after her parents watched her bobble around before she could walk when watching The Sound of Music. Inspired by our desires to dance at such a young age and her extensive dance training, Grace finds movement to be the basis for her artistry. From practicing movement improvisation to working at dance competitions to teaching tap to anyone interested, she embraces how movement can connect us. Over the past few years, she has taught and choreographed as a Laboratory of Movement instructor with Pones, Inc., a social justice-based dance collective providing dance classes to trauma-based communities of all ages, and as a tap technique coach for Revere Dance Studio’s National Dance Team and Team in Training. Beyond the world of dance, she uses movement throughout her direction developing fight choreography, creating devised movement sequences, and even blocking intimacy choreography.
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Grace has worked with theatre companies around the nation, including The Carnegie, National Women’s Theatre Festival, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, Magnolia Theatre Company, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and Solasta Theatre Lab. Collaborating as a deviser, literary manager, stage manager, artistic administrator, front of house employee, and more, Grace has the ability to fulfill a variety of creative roles with passion and skill. Her deep ambition to make the theatre industry and art as a whole as accessible as possible has led her to working with several companies, like Art Equals, directly planning events, creating strategy, and applying for grants to expand the ability for folks to create, interact with, and consume artistic experiences.
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She has a B.A. in Theatre Production in the Directing Option with minors in Spanish, Women & Gender Studies, and New Works for the Stage from Ball State University.
