Out director and actor Ian Anthony Coleman is a familiar face on the D.C. theater scene. Always busy, very involved in the project at hand, but never without an eye on the long game.

When the Blade spoke with Coleman two summers ago, his ambitious career objective was to become an artistic director and change maker. Those goals have remained unchanged

What’s different is he’s leaving Washington and entering a fully funded MFA program at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where he’ll study direction as part of a prestigious drama program ranked one of the best in the country.

“Out of over 100 applicants, only one director was accepted this year and that’s me,” says Coleman understandably thrilled. (He heads west on Aug. 15, two days after his 35th birthday.)

As an undergrad at M

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