Recent Credits Include: Appropriate (South Coast Repertory); Trouble in Mind (Old Globe); Thurgood (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Flex (TheatreSquared, World Premiere); BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) (MOXIE).
Upcoming Projects Include: The Mountaintop (Round House Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (Two River Theater).
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg is a director, artistic leader, teacher, and mother. She is a founder and the former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, which she helmed for twelve acclaimed seasons. During that time, she received the Des McAnuff New Visions Award for “Risk Taking Leadership and Body of Work,” as well as “2015 Director of the Year” from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. In addition to MOXIE, Delicia has directed plays for the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego REP, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Cygnet Theatre, New Village Arts, and Diversionary Theatre, among others. Delicia has had the pleasure of directing productions and mentoring students at the Old Globe, the University of San Diego’s Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, Sonoma State University, University of Redlands, San Diego State, UC San Diego, and Palomar College.
Delicia has directed countless workshops and staged readings of new plays for National New Play Network, Old Globe, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Diego REP, and Arena Stage. Delicia was twice a recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship through Second Stage Theatre in New York and is an alumna of the New York Drama League’s Directors Program, as well as Theatre Communication Group’s New Generations Program. She has received NAACP Theatre awards and nominations for direction, a Women's International Center Living Legacy Award, awards for “Outstanding Direction of a Play” and “Outstanding Dramatic Production” from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle, as well as KPBS “Patte” Theatre awards for the same. Currently, she is a Resident Artist at the Old Globe and serves on the board of La Jolla Playhouse.