ENNEAGRAM
Type 7 – The Enthusiast
Passionate, curious, optimistic, adventurous, thoughtful

MYERS BRIGGS
INFP
Introversion – Intuition – Feeling – Perceiving

STRENGTHSFINDER
1. Input – I crave to know more, collecting and archiving all kinds of information.
2. Strategic – I create alternative ways to proceed, quickly spotting relevant patterns and issues.
3. Ideation – I am fascinated by ideas, finding connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
4. Individualization – I am intrigued with the unique qualities of each person and have a gift for helping people thrive.
5. Connectedness – I have faith in the links between all things and believe there are few coincidences in life.

Mara Richards Bim is an award-winning devised theatre practitioner, playwright, and director, and is the founder of the nationally-acclaimed Cry Havoc Theater Company (2014-2023).

Mara has received multiple DFW Theater Critics Awards and was awarded two Special Project Grants from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture for public art installations to accompany Cry Havoc Theater Company productions (2018 and 2019). Under her leadership, Cry Havoc: was awarded the National Community Impact Award from Theater for Young Audiences (2018); was named "Best Thing to Happen to Local Theater" by D Magazine (2019); and was the subject of a five-episode podcast by KERA/NPR about the company's production of Babel (2020). In 2020 Mara received the Holloway Family Foundation’s Visionary Leadership Award and in 2021 she was named one of D Magazine’s “78 Women Changing the Face of Dallas.”

Mara holds a BFA in Drama and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and an MSEd in Educational Theatre from The City College of New York. She is currently a third-year Master of Divinity student at Southern Methodist University.

Mara lives in Plano, TX with her husband, daughter, cat, and dog.