Teresa Coleman Wash is a playwright, producer and Founding Executive Artistic Director for the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, an award-winning, multicultural theatre that produces a full season of jazz concerts, theater performances, a lecture series and year-round arts education programs in Dallas, TX. She holds an MA in Arts Management from Goucher College and a BS in Business Administration from Albany State University. Wash is the 2018 Obelisk Award recipient in the category of Visionary Nonprofit Arts Leader for the Business Council for the Arts. She serves on Theater Communications Group’s 2018/2019 Programming Council, and she is an alumni of The OpEd Project through the Dallas Public Greenhouses. In 2016, she was one of three recipients of the Dallas Observer's MasterMind Award, and currently, she serves on the Cultural Tourism Committee for VisitDallas, the steering committee for Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition and The Dramatists Guild of America where she is also a Council member.