Monica White Ndounou

Dr. Monica White Ndounou is an Associate Professor of Theater at Dartmouth College and affiliate faculty in Film and Media Studies and African and African American Studies. She is the Founder and President of The CRAFT Institute and The International Black Theatre Summit. Dr. Ndounou previously served as President of the Black Theatre Association (BTA) from 2016 to 2018 and as Vice President of Advocacy for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) from 2019 to 2021. She also served on the board of The August Wilson Society and on The Black Seed’s founding National Advisory Committee. She is the author of Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers and the co-author of Breaking It Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority. Her forthcoming works include the co-edited Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance and a multi-media project titled Acting Your Color: The CRAFT, Power, and Paradox of Acting for Black Americans. Dr. Ndounou is also an actor, director, and creator. She co-curated Echoes of Us, directed by Michele Shay and produced by CRAFT’s African Diasporic Network initiative, and is the co-founder of CreateEnsemble.com, a digital platform for creative artists of color.