BETTY HART
Betty Hart is an actor, director, and facilitator who moved from Atlanta to Denver in fall of 2013. Betty has acted in Local Lab, and has facilitated audience conversations and salons for Local Theater Company since 2015. In 2020, Betty directed Josh Kroenig’s Vroom Vroom for Local Lab, which audiences never saw due to the theatre wide shut down. In Spring of 2022, Betty directed You Enjoy Myself and co-directed Local Lab 11, Local Theater Company’s new play festival alongside Nick Chase. In the summer of 2022, Betty became one of the Co-Artistic Directors of Local Theater Company. She helmed the exciting Local Lab 12 in 2023.
Recent directing credits include the world premieres of Mountain Octopus and the online production of To The Moon by Beth Kander for Creede Repertory Theatre. Betty assistant directed the world premiere of co-creators David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar’s Theater of the Mind in collaboration with and co-produced by the Denver Center’s Off-Center.
Additional credits include Blackademics (Vintage Theatre), Once on this Island (Town Hall Arts Center), By the way, Meet Vera Stark (Fine Arts Center at Colorado College), Polaroid Stories (Metropolitan State University), and the one person play, An Iliad (Creede Repertory Theatre), an original devised theatrical film for the University of Northern Colorado called 2020 Speaks, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (DCPA Cabaret & Vintage Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys and Crowns (Vintage Theatre); Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies (Aurora Fox); The Darker Face of the Earth; Evelyn in Purgatory; A Thousand Circlets; Jim Crow and the Rhythm Darlings (Essential Theatre).
Recognition: 2022 Henry Award nominee for outstanding direction of a musical (Once on this Island), 2018 & 2021 True West Award winner and 2021 BroadwayWorld Denver Award for Best direction of a stream for Creede Repertory’s online production of Beth Kander’s To the Moon.