At a Glance

-Graduate of Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, BFA Musical Theatre (yes, I will bring it up)
-Southern Idaho born and raised (special skills include downhill skiing, shooting a Diet Coke can through the "o", peeling a potato faster than anyone you've ever seen)
-Libra sun, Sag moon, Scorpio rising
-Favorite Shakespeare: Hamlet
-Favorite Sondheim: Company
-Recently closed: Romeo and Juliet at the Folger Theatre, assistant directing under Raymond O. Caldwell
-Currently working on: The Kennedy Center's spring tour of Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (tour stops and tickets here)


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A graduate of Howard University's BFA Musical Theatre program, Savina has studied musical theatre, restoration comedy, Shakespeare, and devising techniques in Idaho, New York, DC, and London.
Performance credits include for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Lady in Orange), Look Both Ways (Francie, Fatima, et al), one drop cool (May), Cabaret (Rosie/Rudy), Head Over Heels (Ens./Pythio u/s), Twelfth Night (Antonio/Fabian), The Addams Family (Ens./Dance Captain), Pippin (Leading Player), The Revolutionists (Marianne Angelle), Rapture Blister Burn (Avery Willard), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Robin Starveling), ¡Luchadora! (Lupita Guerrero/Mascara Rosa II), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Lucy Barker).

In 2020, Savina was a featured playwright in Theater Alliance's A Protest in Eight, a series of eight newly commissioned plays directed by artistic director Raymond O. Caldwell. In October 2022, they co-directed the Idaho regional premiere of Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu with longtime collaborator and best friend in the whole wide world, Roney Jones.
Offstage Savina is a teaching artist, and has worked with St. Thomas Playhouse, Sage School, The Spot, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Wood River Community YMCA, Howard University, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, and Arena Stage directing, choreographing, and teaching dance, movement, voice for the stage, Shakespeare in performance, and ensemble building to K-12 and undergraduate students.

