Charla Booth
Charla Booth is a performing arts educator, advocate, and playwright whose creative works highlight the strengths of families within the African American diaspora. A trailblazer in Indiana’s arts education, Charla was a founding staff member of the Emerson School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Gary in 1982. Her extensive leadership and teaching experience includes serving as an educator and Auditorium Manager at Broad Ripple Magnet School for the Arts and Humanities, as well as Technical Director and Youth in Arts Summer Camp Director for the historic Madam Walker Theatre. An OnyxFest-winning playwright, Charla has directed and staged theatrical productions throughout the region, including at the New Regal Theater in Chicago. Additionally, she is an accomplished writer with published children’s books, plays for Black theatre, a children’s operetta, and a featured short story in Autism Parenting Magazine.