Jada Alexia Hampton

A headshot of Jada, dark skin-tone, smiling directly at the camera wearing a black strap dress with daisies partially covered by loosely curled black hair.

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Jada (she/her) is an arts administrator, artist, and activist located in Louisville, Kentucky. She has primarily worked alongside arts entrepreneurs of color (and consulting firms) as an Executive Assistant since 2021, including Ann James, Tiffany Vega-Gibson, Marjuan Canady, Lauren Tuner Hines, and Al Heartley. Passionate about anti-racism and inclusivity, Jada is a 2020 KCACTF ASPIRE Alumni as well as a John Cauble Emerging Producer/Leader and Charlene Gordon Arts Impact Award recipient. Also a writer, she was an author and editor for the Uncle Junior Project and a featured playwright at the American College Theatre Festival for her play, Hip Hop Heaven.

Her interests include dance, research, food allergen awareness (as a sufferer of Celiac Disease) and playwriting. She was awarded the Judge’s Prize in the 2026 Festival of Reads for her play White Jesus and Jezebel, a provocative and absurd collection of short plays chronicling the evolution of racial power structures from the 1900s through current day America (USA).

Most recently she was a Line Producer at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She is currently working as a freelance consultant for Hip Hop Education Center and is excited to start her consultancy with ADC Consulting.

Jada graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Performance.