About Us
In Living Colored was born in 2018 when Michael Anthony Tatmon moved to Fort Collins and walked into The Bas Bleu Theatre to audition. He immediately struck up a friendship with the company and made a plan to co-produce a play he had been passionate about for years, Thurgood. Zhanna Gurvich saw the value of the play to school kids studying American history and introduced Michael to social studies teachers within PSD. They produced the play for several high school and middle school classes and made plans to produce more plays in schools and community centers throughout Colorado. Then came the pandemic, production paused and priorities got rearranged. In 2022, we eased back into production with a staged reading of an original new work by local playwright William Wright, Clarice and Michelangelo. In 2024 Thurgood was playing at The Lincoln Center to enthusiastic crowds of adults and students.
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This season we are working to extend our reach and repertoire with more productions at more venues. We are in our new office at the Community Impact Center and extremely excited about our new partnerships with FoCo Cafe, All Saints Episcopal Church, Ginger and Baker, and all our new friends at the CIC.
Michael Anthony Tatmon: Development Director & Actor
Michael Anthony Tatmon was born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He went to school in Connecticut, served in the US Air Force in law enforcement, and went on to attend the American Conservatory Theatre where he studied professional acting. He worked with 7 Stages Theatre as an Associate Artist where he traveled to China to perform Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs, for which received a Best Actor nomination at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Festival.  See Mike's resume here.
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Tatmon has faced many challenges in his life. Including a period as a homeless veteran living on the streets in Georgia, Florida, and Arizona. Working his way off the streets and out of homelessness gave Tatmon another dimension and view of life that he incorporates into his acting. Â Â
Acting for Mike has been an odyssey of transformation. As a young actor, he thought only of pursuing commercial success. Yet, at the same time, he loved the art. As he found more opportunities to express his art, he was drawn to work that would give voice to social and political issues and the under-represented. Thus In Living Colored was born.
PRODAN DIMOV: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Prodan Dimov has been known as director to the Atlanta theatre audiences since his first show Diary of a Madman, by Gogol, at 7 Stages in 1998, which Creative Loafing’s annual review mentioned along with the ten best shows for the year. He came to Atlanta with considerable experience as actor, director, and educator in Bulgaria and Russia, where he continued to be invited multiple times as director in repertory theaters. After 3 years of teaching at Kennesaw State University, in 2005, Prodan Dimov founded Metropolis Theatre where he directed many shows and developed collaborative relationships with emerging playwrights and theatre directors. All his professional life, Prodan Dimov has been closely connected to the field of education. He has BFA, MFA, and PhD degrees in Theatre Arts and has worked at secondary and post-secondary institutions in the US and abroad. Quite a few of his students have become well-known theater, TV, and film actors.Â
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His most acclaimed American productions have been The Chairs and The Bald Soprano, by Ionesco, The Gin Game, by D. L. Coburn, The Proposal, The Bear, and The Harmfulness of Tobacco, by Chekhov. Some of these shows brought back awards from international festivals. According to AJC, the 7 Stages production of The Chairs (2003) was the first show in the history of the state of Georgia to go to China. His latest success abroad was with Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, directed on the stage of the legendary Russian theatre Kolesso. In 2018, he joined the artistic leadership team of the New Marietta’s Theater in the Square, where he directed Arthur Miller’s A View for the Bridge and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park.