launching April 1

MARIA BAUMAN-MORALES is a NY-based “Bessie” award winning multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer. She creates bold artworks for her company, MBDance, via dream-mapping and nuanced, powerful physicality. Bauman-Morales’s artworks center the non-linear and linear stories and bodies of queer people of color. She is a 2018 UBW Choreographic Center Fellowship Candidate, 2017-19 Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange and was 2017 the Community Action Artist in Residence at Gibney Dance. She's a Core Trainer with The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, and co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity) undoing racism in arts fields.

launching April 8

GABRIELLE CIVIL is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty original performance art works around the world tackling race, body, politics, grief, and desire. Since 2014, she has been performing “Say My Name (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls)” as an act of embodied remembering. She is the author of the performance memoirs Swallow the Fish and Experiments in Joy (both published by The Accomplices). She teaches Creative Writing & Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space. (Photo Credit: Dennie Eagleson)

launching April 15

SAMIA ABOU-SAMRA is an igniter of purpose towards a world of Radical Love. An Alchemist: they create music as Wailing - the cry, the longing prayer to inspire the deepest love. A Director of Genius: they facilitate the creation process for geniuses and design systems to support them.  A Hakim: they invest in healing, wisdom and the elevation of consciousness. They are the founder of Whale Wonder: a playspace that incubates incubators for the elevation of consciousness. And the co-founder of Turtle Tank: an incubator for Radical Love and Freedom that supports radical creators, entrepreneurs and leaders in creating wealth and well-being.

launching April 22

Originally from San Antonio, Tejas, ADELINA ANTHONY is the eldest daughter of eight. She identifies as a Two Spirit Xicana Lesbiana Artista and grounds her works in indigenous tenets, especially the practice of story as medicine. She is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist working primarily in the areas of acting, writing, producing and directing in theater/television and film. Along with Marisa Becerra, she is the co-founder of AdeRisa Productions, an indie film company focusing on Xicanx/Latinx/Mexican and QTPOC works since 2012.

launching April 29

D’LO is a queer/transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American actor/writer/comic. You’ve seen D’Lo in LOOKING (HBO), TRANSPARENT (Amazon), SENSE 8 (Netflix), Mr. ROBOT (CW) and the Emmy nominated mini-doc series THIS IS ME produced by Rhys Ernst and Zackary Drucker. He also can be found in the documentary based on his life/work called PERFORMING GIRL and Sundance Fellow Adelina Anthony’s film BRUISING FOR BESOS as Rani. He’s also been featured in Buzzfeed & Fusion videos, and in many webseries including EASTSIDERS, DYKE CENTRAL, Issa Rae's Color Creative & Project Greenlight produced MINIMUM WAGE and his own series PRIVATE DICK. He tours his solo shows (stand-up & theater) on the university/college circuit and theaters internationally, facilitates writing and performance workshops nationally, and also is a co-producer with Disoriented Comedy - all Asian-American touring group. D'Lo is currently in development on a scripted series based on his life that is set up at BTR Media and Paul Feig’s Powderkeg Media.

launching may 6

NI’JA WHITSON is a gender nonconforming/astral transmogrifying interdisciplinary artist and writer who has been referred to as “majestic” by The New York Times and recognized by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer. They are a Creative Capital Awardee, MAP Fund grantee, Jerome/Camargo Fellow, Hedgebrook Fellow, featured choreographer of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, and a Bessie-Award winner. Whitson is currently an Assistant Professor of experimental choreography at UC Riverside and is the founder/artistic director of The NWA Project.

launching May 13

EBONY NOELLE GOLDEN is an artist, scholar, and culture strategist. Her creative work consists of site-specific performance rituals and live art installations that explore relationships between creativity and liberation. She is the founder of Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC a culture consultancy and arts accelerator based in NYC.

Virginia Grise & Shayok Misha Chowdhury   

VIRGINIA GRISE is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing and the Yale Drama Series Award. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press), and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press). She earned her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

SHAYOK MISHA CHOWDHURY is a queer Bengali director, writer, and theater-maker based in Brooklyn. Misha is currently in residence at Ars Nova, Soho Rep, the Drama League, and The Flea, and was recently a Directing Fellow at New York Theater Workshop. Upcoming: Beast Thing with Aleshea Harris; Speech with Scott Sheppard; MukhAgni with Kameron Neal; rasgos asiaticos and Your Healing Is Killing Me with Virginia Grise. Misha was featured on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns, and his poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is on faculty at Williams College. 

launching may 20

launching may 27

MARJANI FORTÉ-SAUNDERS is a Mother, choreographer, performer, a collaborative artist, community organizer and most recently a 3 time Bessie award winning choreographer.  Anchored in a steady collaboration with partner and composer Everett Asis Saunders the duo have produced seven award-winning works over the last 10 yrs. Marjani is an Inaugural recipient of the Jerome Artist Fellowship, the UBW Choreographic Center Fellowship and a two-time Princess Grace Foundation awardee. Humbly, she defines her work by its lineage stemming from culturally rich, vibrant, historic, loving, irreverent conjurers!

launching June 3