Daphnie Sicre
Dr. Daphnie Sicre teaches theatre at Loyola Marymount University. Engaging in anti-racist and culturally competent theatre practices, she facilitates workshops to teach about EDI theatre pedagogy. When she is not teaching, writing, conducting workshops, she can be found directing or serving as a dramaturg professionally. This past summer, she directed the live production of Waiting (Playwrights’ Arena) by Daniel A. Olivas, following a year of Zoom productions: Black Mexican (San Diego Rep/Latinx New Play Festival), This Bitch by Adrienne Dawes (Austin Latinx New Play Festival), Diversity Awareness Picnic by Leah Nanako Winkler (LMU), Talking Peace by France-Luce Benson (Fountain Theatre) and multiple stage readings. Her in person LMU credits include In the Heights, before the pandemic hit, and this past fall, Everybody by Braden Jacobs Jenkins. Select New York City directing credits include: Jose Casas’s 14 (BMCC), Shower Me by Sheyenne Brown (FringeNYC), Stranger by Kendra Augustin (Stage Black), where she won Best Director and the AUDELCO nominated Not About Eve by Karl Williams. She is also the resident dramaturg at the Robey Theatre and is currently working with multiple playwrights helping develop their new plays.
