Tyrone Davis provides direction and leadership for Center Theatre Group’s audience engagement programming at the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Designing programs that reach across generations, demographics, and circumstance, Tyrone encourages audiences to take a play off the stage and into their lives. Previously he served as Community Artistic Director with American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where he helped ensure access to live theater for diverse communities throughout the Bay Area, from creating and implementing arts programing for continuation high schools, to commissioning and directing plays aimed at engaging San Franciscans in telling untold and under told stories. He has over 10 years of experience in engagement and arts education, including serving as an adjunct professor in drama at Contra Costa College and Los Medanos College. Davis is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Theater M.F.A. acting program and holds a B.A. in theater from California State University, Northridge (CSUN).