Betty Hart is one third of Local’s triumvirate Co-Artistic Director team, along with Nick Chase and Founding Artistic Director Pesha Rudnick. This season, all three Co-Artistic Directors are playing key roles in each production and Hart kicked things off as the director of September’s tribute to Phish and to devotion, You Enjoy Myself by Topher Payne. She also directed a workshop reading of A Case for Black Girls Setting Central Park on Fire, by Kori Alston, a play that intertwined gospel music, running, and a rottweiler to illuminate a coming of age story as specific as it is universal. This winter, she returns to the Dairy as the solo performer in acts of faith, by David Yee, a character she first brought to life at the Aurora Fox under the direction of Rudnick. Ask Betty Hart what she’s most looking forward to in reviving the role of Faith and she’ll tell you, “stepping into some characters who feel familiar but completely different because I’m no longer the person who once stepped into those shoes.”