Tiana Kaye Blair is a director, actor, educator, and culture worker based in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex, and the first artist to become certified to teach SoulWork. Her expertise as a SoulWork instructor includes acting, singing, and community engagement, as well as a movement training focus which she developed in collaboration with Dr. Truscott. Her directing credits include: Spell #7, Dutchman, Mlima’s Tale, Libra Season, Working: A Musical, Hurt Village, Rage, and Twelfth Night The Musical. Some of her acting credits as a member of the Dallas Theater Center’s (DTC) include: penny candy, Steel Magnolias, In The Heights, The Great Society, Hair, and The Mountaintop. Blair is also a member of Progress Theatre, an international touring ensemble committed to using art to encourage social consciousness, cross-community dialogue and cultural awareness amongst audiences diverse in race, age and spiritual background. She is proud to serve the Southern Methodist University Department of Theater, teaching SoulWork as a Professor of Practice of Acting and Movement. Professor Blair holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theater from Prairie View A&M University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Southern Methodist University.