ABOUT

Judy Braha has been a director, actor, teacher and artist for social justice for over four decades. Long-time head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater, her credits include theaters, prisons and universities throughout New England and beyond.  Recently named Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires, she is dedicated to the development and production of new work. Judy enthusiastically works with Berkshire Voices, the playwrighting community under the umbrella of GBPT, and other gifted writers who live and work in Western Mass.

With a commitment to raising consciousness around the power of the arts as activism, Judy collaborated for over a decade with Andre de Quadros in the BU College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project, teaching Empowering Song to incarcerated students in Massachusetts’ prisons and jails. They also worked together within the BU community, teaching the innovative Collaborative Arts Incubator and the groundbreaking series Race, Prison, Justice, Arts.  

Directing credits include: Madame Mozart, The Lacrimosa, Mr. Fullerton, Dog People, Things I Know To Be True (GBPT), Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), To Kill A Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage Company), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (CST), Othello, I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), The Oil Thief, Deported, a dream play (Boston Playwrights Theater), Our Class, Our Country’s Good and The Exonerated (BU/School Of Theater), Flight of the Monarch (Shakespeare and Co.). Also, currently touring historic venues in New England, a solo work about Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It. A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Judy is also proud to have been a founding board member of Stage Source, New England Theater’s service organization committed to connecting theaters, artists and their communities.