Posts under Poetic License category
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Dennis A. Allen II

Dennis A. Allen II is from Hempstead, New York. His play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off

February 18, 2019
Cyrus Aaron

  Cyrus Aaron is a creative storyteller and curator. The Fire This Time Festival Cycle 11 Playwright has used his

February 26, 2016
Ali Andre Ali

Ali Andre Ali is a Palestinian/Irish-American actor and musician based in New York. As an actor he has worked with

February 15, 2016
Karen Alvarado

Karen Alvarado is an Advisory Board Member of Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Program. Karen is a Latinx actor, director,

February 15, 2016
Barbara Allen

“Normal” is for other people. The more Barbara Allen fought to be normal, the harder life laughed at her. And

February 15, 2016
Raquel Almazan

Raquel was born in Madrid – Spain, is also of Costa Rican descent and has lived most of her life

February 15, 2016
Chelsea Allison

Chelsea Allison is an actor and playwright from New York. This is her first year with viBe Company! Recent projects

February 15, 2016
Amza

Amza is a young artist growing in New York.  He attended the East Village Community School where his music mentor

February 14, 2016
Mia Y. Anderson

A proud Jamerican actor/writer/director who was born in the Republic of Brooklyn. I am  woman of faith, who is committed

February 13, 2016
Mariela Andrade-Angel

Mariela Andrade-Angel is a multitalented first-generation Mexican immigrant. She is a singer, poet, actress, stage manager and has also dipped

February 13, 2016
Ray Archie

Ray Archie (Executive Director of Notes to the Soul, Inc.) is infinitely the musicians’ advocate. It comes from the heart

February 9, 2016
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Jennifer Cendaña Armas

Jennifer Cendaña Armas is a performer, writer, and community worker. Her work has been performed in places such as the

February 9, 2016
Sojourner Brown

      Sojourner Brown is an NYU Tisch graduate with a BFA in Drama and a Minor in Creative

February 9, 2016
Monique Arrucci

Monique Arrucci, a Brooklyn native, joined the U.S. Army in 2002, after 9/11, and served 8 years with one tour

February 9, 2016
Eric Aviles

Eric Aviles is an actor, writer, and teaching artist and activist residing in NYC.  Eric recently completed a California tour of

February 5, 2016
Aya Aziz

Aya Aziz is a songwriter and performance artist based between New York and Beirut, Lebanon. Aya wrote and performed her

February 1, 2016
Georgina Bates

Georgina Bates is a NY based choreographer/director. Her dance film UNSTOPPABLE was selected from the#mydancefilm campaign and screened at the Film

January 26, 2016
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Román Baca

Román Baca is an artist, a classically trained ballet dancer and choreographer. In 2001, recognizing his desire to defend the

January 26, 2016
Tammy Barlet

Ms. Tammy Barlet served for over 8 years in the United States Coast Guard, beginning in 1995. As an Operations

January 26, 2016
Kay Ulanday Barrett

Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, performer, and educator, navigating life as a disabled pilipinx amerikan transgender queer in the

January 26, 2016
Jason Bayani

Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet (2013 Write Bloody Publishing). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College, a

January 26, 2016
Beatur

Beatur is an entertainer working as a music producer, musical director, actor, DJ, comedian and as a member of various

January 22, 2016
Stacey Bell

  Stacey Bell is a US Army veteran, writer, playwright, and performer originally from Illinois. She has been published in

January 22, 2016
Zubaida Bello

  Zubaida Bello is  a poet and member of the Urban Word NYC Youth Board. She has performed her original poetry

January 22, 2016
Jerri Bell

Jerri Bell is the Managing Editor for O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal of the Veterans Writing Project. She retired from the

January 22, 2016
Ori Bensimhon

With Poetic Theater Productions: Production Manager for Poetic License 2012, Poetic License 2014, Poetic License 2015: Subconscious, Poetic License 2016: A Kind of Now,

January 22, 2016
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James Edward Becton

James Edward Becton, a USA Veteran, is a multi-unionized, National/international performance artist with over thirty years of accredited experience. His

January 22, 2016
Toni Blackman

Toni Blackman, a highly respected artist and social entrepreneur, is the first Hip Hop artist selected to work as a

January 15, 2016
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Tom Block

Tom Block is an artist, writer and activist best known for the development and implementation an activist art theory, “Prophetic

January 15, 2016
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Mickey Bolmer

Mickey Bolmer, a New York City playwright now living in California, works weaving sewing sometimes seemingly disparate nodes of experiences,

January 12, 2016
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BOM5

Bom5 was born in the South Bronx and raised on 174th Street. He started out as 174 SPIDER and ran

January 12, 2016
Khadijah Boney

Artists often give brief acknowledgement to the assistance the Divine energies may provide in their creativity. For Khadijah Boney, 25,

January 12, 2016
é boylan

é boylan (they/them) is a NYC based director, creator, and composer developing new work towards trans liberation. Recent/Upcoming projects: “Soft

January 12, 2016
Jerome Brooks Jr.

Jerome Brooks, Jr. is a South Carolina native and is known for his work on Art= (Love)2 as Josh McKee.

January 9, 2016
Mahogany L. Browne

The Cave Canem, Poets House & Serenbe Focus fellow is the author of several books including Dear Twitter: Love Letters

January 9, 2016
Gabriella Bruno

Gabriella Bruno: Upon graduating from Chapman University, Gabriella moved to Brooklyn to pursue her career in dance. She has been dancing

January 9, 2016
Sarah Cangussu

Sarah Cangussu is a multicultural and multi-talented musician born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brasil, she has been traveling the

December 26, 2015
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Maya Carter

Maya Carter (they/them/theirs/Maya) Maya is a multi-hyphenate maker/performer,  teaching artist + cultivator of joy— living and working on the land

December 26, 2015
Victory Chappotin

Victory Chappotín is an Actor/Writer/Historian. At the Wild Project Victory played Olli in Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the

December 19, 2015
Chad Chenail

Chad Chenail is a graduate of Pace University and freelance director based in Jersey City. He is also the cofounder

December 19, 2015
Nicosie Christophe

Nicosie is a Brooklynite poet and actress. She performed with viBe in “Crown Heights: A Remembrance,” “States of Being,” “Body/Vox,”

December 19, 2015
Everett Cox

Everett Cox served in the U. S. Army from 1966-1969.  He served in Viet Nam in 1969 with the 245th

December 12, 2015
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Omar Columbus

Omar Columbus is an Advisory Board Member of Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Program. Omar is a photographer, poet, curator,

December 12, 2015
Samantha Cooper

Samantha is honored to be a part of the Poetic Theater family. With PTP: Goliath (Culture Project, Wild Project, CA

December 12, 2015
Taro Vestol Cooper

Taro Vestøl Cooper is an actor and a spoken word artist. He graduated from Nordic Black Xpress Acting School in 2011.

December 12, 2015
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D-Cross

D-Cross (Derick Cross) is a Queens NY born and Brooklyn based multi dimensional vocal and visual performance artist and arts

December 9, 2015
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Caryn Davidson

Caryn Davidson is an art educator who teaches for social justice, global awareness, and self-understanding. She studied Anthropology and Visual Art

November 26, 2015
Darian Dauchan

DARIAN DAUCHAN is an award winning solo performer, actor, and poet who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century) and

November 26, 2015
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Ashkon Davaran

Ashkon is an Iranian-American actor and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. Past credits include various roles in the

November 26, 2015
David Davila

  David Davila is a writer and performer from South Texas; where 45 wants to build his idiotic wall. His musicals

November 26, 2015
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Trace Howard DePass

Trace Howard DePass is the author of Self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018), which was a finalist

November 22, 2015
Louis DeVaughn Nelson (DeVo)

Louis DeVaughn Nelson (aka DeVo) is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hokum Arts. He studied Education and Playwriting/Screenwriting at

November 22, 2015
Dontonio Demarco

With Poetic Theater Productions: Curator for Poetic Open Sessions. Director Veteran Voices 2020 in Poetic License RENEWAL Director and Actor

November 22, 2015
Toni Ann DeNoble

Toni Ann DeNoble is a multi-disciplinary artist of the stage & screen, Toni Ann’s most recent credits include, Playwright’s Realm,

November 22, 2015
Maurice Decaul

Maurice Emerson Decaul, a former Marine, is a poet, essayist, and playwright, whose writing has been featured in the New

November 22, 2015
Ashley Dorce

Ashley Dorcé is a child of God, musician and all around creative. She is a believer with a passion for helping people.

November 12, 2015
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Phobe Dupont

Phobe Dupont is a 12th grade student at Millennium Brooklyn High School. As an artist they are most inspired by the

November 6, 2015
Sarah Duncan

  Sarah Duncan is a cis white chronically ill queer femme, organizer, writer, performer, teacher, Buffy fan, and graduate student

November 6, 2015
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Duv

Duv is a soulful vocalist and songwriter from The Bronx known for his range in sound, ability to collaborate with

November 6, 2015
Edgar Eguia

Edgar Eguia is a NY-based actor.  He has affiliations with The Flea Theater, The Amoralists Theatre Company, and Poetic Theater Productions. 

October 20, 2015
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  _DiFF ring As _yoU, Ein CrA/<:Tor für which Li\/E: ing eXpands und Rad¡Kātes cunventions Being konnvention, naTchürLeash. Broadway: Fun Home

October 18, 2015
Miguel A. Faña

Miguel was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was inspired to join the Army

September 26, 2015
Leo Farley

Leo Farley is a United States Army Veteran. He served as a Communications Specialist with the 52nd Signal Battalion in

September 26, 2015
Dominique Fishback

Dominique is a TV, Film, Stage actress and Poet from Brooklyn, East NY. Selected TV credits: HBO’s “Show me a

September 18, 2015
Adam Fleming

Adam Fleming is a New York City based choreographer, performer, and educator. In 2018 he formed Two Way Radio, a

September 15, 2015
Zoë Flowers

Zoë Flowers has the power to heal with her hands and words. Her poetry and essays can be found in

September 15, 2015
Fun

“I go by the name of Fun in which everyone would agree fits perfectly for me. I love to smile

September 6, 2015
Albert Andrew Garcia

Albert Andrew Garcia A.A.Garcia (b. 1982) is an artist and a writer with a background in performance theory and creative

August 26, 2015
Amanda Gardner

Amanda J. Gardner, I fell in love with movies at a very young age but it wasn’t until I got

August 26, 2015
Shanelle Gabriel

Shanelle Gabriel is a poet, singer, and lupus warrior from Brooklyn, NY who has performed internationally including Africa, Bermuda, Europe,

August 26, 2015
Tamara Geisler

Tamara Geisler is an Actor, Writer, Producer and Teaching Artist. Born in Mexico City, she moved to the United States

August 22, 2015
Katherine George

Katherine George is an Afro-Latina performer, director, writer, and educator from the Bronx, NY by the way of the Dominican

August 22, 2015
Keelay Gipson

Keelay Gipson is a multi-disciplinary artist including work as an actor, filmmaker, director and award-winning playwright. His play What I Tell

August 18, 2015
Ebony Noelle Golden

Ebony Golden is a Houston, TX native now living in the South Bronx. Ebony is an accomplished performance artist, poet,

August 12, 2015
Nicole Goodwin

Nicole Goodwin is a veteran, author,  performance artist, and award-winning poet.  Her book Warcries is a collection of poems inspired

August 12, 2015
Anna Gothard

Anna is a performer, musician, teacher and a half of folk-pop duo, Anna/Kate. Anna has performed widely in music venues

August 12, 2015
Chelsea Gregory

Chelsea Gregory is a community-engaged dance theater artist, writer, educator and cultural organizer originally from Atlanta, GA. She was recently

August 9, 2015
Craig ‘muMs’ Grant

Craig muMs Grant is an American Playwright, Poet and Actor best known for playing Poet on the HBO hit show

August 9, 2015
Zuleyma Guevara

Ms. Guevara is a huge fan of Raquel Almazan’s work and honored to be collaborating on this production of La

August 6, 2015
Sentell Harper

Sentell Harper recently had his one man show Seek and Ye Shall Find premiere in New York City in the

July 26, 2015
Brigitte Harris

Brigitte is currently an apprentice carpenter with the NYC District Council of Carpenter’s but studied to be an actress in

July 26, 2015
Joanna Hoffman

Joanna Hoffman (www.joannahoffman.com) is a spoken word poet and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a 15 year veteran of slam, or

July 12, 2015
Eboni Hogan

Eboni Hogan is a Brooklyn-based poet, playwright, screenwriter, actress and arts educator. She studied theater at NYU’s Tisch School of

July 12, 2015
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Kim D. Holmes

For the last 20 years, Kim Holmes has emerged as one of the premiere, influential luminaries of the urban dance

July 12, 2015
Yayoi Ikawa
Yayoi Ikawa

Yayoi Ikawa (Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator) Born in Tokyo, Japan, but raised musically in New York, pianist/composer Yayoi

June 16, 2015
Taja Lindley
Taja Lindley

An 80’s baby born in New York and raised in the South, Taja Lindley is currently living in Hawaii and

June 13, 2015
Ish Islam

Ish raps, writes, and makes records. A rapper and producer from Brooklyn, New York, Ish’s artist development has led him

June 8, 2015
Kim Jinhyoung

Kim Jinhyoung, is a writer and composer based in New York. Kim started his career as a composer from Seoul,

May 18, 2015
Teniece Divya Johnson

Teniece Divya Johnson is an activist, capricorn, stunt performer, henna artist and student of life. A MFA graduate of the

May 12, 2015
Ryan F Johnson

With Poetic Theater Productions: Actor in Underground Actor in “Shatter the Sky” in Poetic License 2013 Actor in Conscious Language 2014

May 12, 2015
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Jerome Jordan

Jerome Jordan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, born and raised in Brooklyn, has played and sang with New York City powerhouse

May 12, 2015
Kevin Kantor

  Kevin Kantor (They/Them) is a genderqueer actor, director, and spoken word poet. As a poet Kevin’s writing has been featured in Button Poetry, Buzzfeed, The Huffington

April 26, 2015
Jeremy Karafin

Jeremy Karafin founded Poetic Theater Productions in February 2010 and, as artistic director, has produced over 170 productions, showcases, gallery

April 26, 2015
Fajjr Khan

Fajjr was born and raised in the rural hills of Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania and is the daughter of Pakistani

April 19, 2015
David King

David King is an actor, director, poet, curator, educator and NYC native. He acted in acclaimed independent feature films “Four Bottles”

April 18, 2015
Vicki Lynn Kohhepp

  Vicki Lynn Kohhepp, has proudly served fourteen years in the New Jersey Army National Guard. During those fourteen years

April 12, 2015
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Abena Koomson

Abena Koomson-Davis is a performer, educator and wordsmith. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where she earned a

April 12, 2015
Danny Lama

Danny Lama, (AKA Danny Thorin), is a military veteran, poet, vocalist, guitarist, harmonica player, composer, and film maker. He has been honored with

March 26, 2015
Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two award-winning collections of poetry, most recently, Last Seen (University of Wisconsin Press),

March 26, 2015
Janelle Lawrence

Janelle Lawrence received their B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Manhattanville College. As a writer, composer, and lyricist Janelle has had

March 26, 2015
Sam LaRoche

Sam LaRoche is a spoken word poet and rap artist out of Brooklyn. In college Sam was signed to an

March 26, 2015
Sandra W. Lee

Sandra W. Lee is an 8-year Army combat veteran in the Special Operations Command, having deployed to Baghdad, Iraq from

March 22, 2015
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1PABLO

1PABLO was born in Kingston Jamaica and grew up in Jamaica, Queens.  He went to Springfield Gardens High School and

March 22, 2015
Maurisa Li-A-Ping

Maurisa Li-A-Ping is a writer and educator raised by an Afro-Caribbean Blaxk Womxn in Brooklyn, New York. She has work

March 18, 2015
Sharifa Linton

Sharifa Linton is born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Her love for dancing started at the age of 3 and

March 18, 2015
Leslie Lissaint

Leslie Lissaint is a world traveler and international performance artist, actress, dancer, and writer. A graduate of the University of

March 18, 2015
Sarah Livant

Sarah Livant is a native Alabamian. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and began stage managing in New York City upon

March 18, 2015
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Corinna Louise

Corinna Louise Brown is an Army veteran who deployed to South Korea. A mother, a partner, a homemaker, a healer,

March 12, 2015
Terry “King Luck” Lewis

Terry “King Luck” Lewis is an emcee and Poet who has developed a new style of rap called BEATRHYMING – beatboxing

March 6, 2015
Camillo Mac Bica

Camillo Mac Bica, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and ethics at the School of Visual Arts in New York

February 26, 2015
Craig Manbauman

Craig’s experience as a former military medic, tending to both the visible and the invisible wounds of war, brought to

February 26, 2015
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Alex Mallory

Alex Mallory is the director of The Metal Shop Performance Lab, founded with the mission to create theatrical events that

February 26, 2015
John D. Manley

Major John D. Manley, US Marine Corps Reserve (retired) is an Army civilian currently serving as the Director, US Army

February 26, 2015
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Jacqui Martinez

Jacqui Martinez is a Lenca Artist and Educator, raised in Los Angeles, Pasadena, California. Planted and Rooted in Siguatepeque, Honduras.

February 26, 2015
Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Martínez is a Brooklyn-based director, writer, choreographer, and deviser. She has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, PlayMakers,

February 26, 2015
Safiya Martinez Connell

Safiya Martinez Connell is a performer, writer and educator. She is an alumni of the New York Teaching Fellows program

February 26, 2015
Jazzy Mason

Jazzy is an advocate, actress, and entrepreneur. She is currently affiliated with the women in prison projects reconnect leadership and advocacy

February 26, 2015
Tori Ashley Matos

Tori Ashley Matos is a writer, performer, and artist based in New York City. They are a graduate of New

February 26, 2015
Chantal Maurice

Chantal has been blessed to work in a variety of acting mediums including Theatre, Film, TV, Industrials and Commercials. In

February 26, 2015
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Ryan McCurdy

Ryan McCurdy is an Actor-Musician, Music Director, and composer based in New York City. He worked for the original Broadway

February 24, 2015
Mary Jo McConnell

Mary Jo McConnell is an Advisory Board Member of Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Program. Mary Jo McConnell is a

February 24, 2015
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Charli McKean

Charli McKean is a sixteen-year-old artist. Along with art, she likes to write fiction novellas, create comics, and practice guitar. She

February 24, 2015
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Margaret McCarthy

Margaret McCarthy was named among the “Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers 2016” by BW GALLERIST. ARTZEALOUS named

February 24, 2015
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Katherine Meyer

Katherine is a fan of writing but has never done so professionally. After receiving a BA in English with an

February 22, 2015
John M. Meyer

John M. Meyer is an artist studying at the University of Texas at Austin. His work as a playwright-performer has

February 22, 2015
Léah Miller

Léah is a freelance stage manager and a technical collaborator with the New York Neo-Futurists. They run the lights and

February 18, 2015
Philip Milio

Philip Milio has pursued the art of photography all of his life. He worked for DoD with satellite imagery for

February 18, 2015
Patrice Miller

Patrice Miller is a director-choreographer and writer currently directing Mad Jenny’s Love und Greed in residence at Pangea. Her work

February 18, 2015
Ellen Mischinski

Ellen Mischinski is a stage manager, producer, and theater administrator. She has worked with Poetic Theater Productions as a Producer

February 18, 2015
Pooya Mohseni

Pooya Mohseni is an Iranian/American actor, Transgender activist and writer. Pooya appeared in an award winning one woman show, titled “One

February 12, 2015
Peter Molin

Peter Molin is a retired US Army infantry officer who served in the 2nd Infantry, 10th Mountain, and 82nd Airborne

February 12, 2015
Charan P. Morris

Charan P. Morris is a New York based poet/educator. A 2011-12 LAMBDA Literary Foundation Fellow, recipient of the Archie D.

February 12, 2015
Jevon Nicholson

Jevon is a New York based actor, lover and hugger. Born in Harlem, raised in Brooklyn, He received his acting

January 18, 2015
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Nkosi Nkululeko

Nkosi Nkululeko is a poetry, music, and chess instructor from Harlem. Some of his work is published or forthcoming in places

January 16, 2015
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Janet Noh

Janet Noh is a NYC-based songwriter, singer, musical theatre writer, and classical pianist originally from Seattle. Her recent musical works include THE ISLAND

January 12, 2015
Teshale Nuer

Teshale Nuer is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary mover, storyteller and word lover focused on the story of the body, doing

January 6, 2015
Nancy Elkin Nygard

Born in the Bronx, raised in Jersey.  Before marrying my Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and way before becoming a military

January 2, 2015
Autumn Oftedal

Autumn Oftedal is from Yakima, WA and graduated cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She

December 21, 2014
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April Dae Okpwae

April Dae Okpwae is a performer, playwright, & community organizer who utilizes comedy to highlight the diversity of black identity

December 16, 2014
Monique Paige

With Poetic Theater Productions: Actor in Love, Redefined 2019 in Poetic License 2019: Resilience  Actress in GOLIATH in the Planet Connections Festival where Monique’s

November 26, 2014
David J. Palmer

David J. Palmer is an award-winning lighting & video/projection designer based in New York City. Recent Designs: Oso Fabuloso: A

November 26, 2014
Matt Park

Matt Park is a songwriter, guitarist, poet, and actor.  He co-wrote music for Ma-Yi’s production of Peer Gynt and the

November 26, 2014
Jenny Pacanowski

Jenny Pacanowski is Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Program Director.  She is also the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered

November 26, 2014
Brys Peralta-Grant

BRYS PERALTA-GRANT: I am 16 years old, go to Millennium Brooklyn High School, and aside from being an artist, I

November 22, 2014
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Dahlia Damoiselle

Dahlia Damoiselle is a Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Advisory Board Member. Dahlia is a queer, transgender writer of Vietnamese

November 19, 2014
Phillip Pineo

Phillip Pineo is a NYC performer who’s worked in multiple artistic disciplines. Recently seen in “The Dick and Anita Holiday

November 18, 2014
Alia “Li” Pierre

Alia “Li” (pronounced Lee) Pierre is a Brooklyn native who has a strong passion for performing arts. She believes her

November 18, 2014
Sherri Pullum

Sherri Pullum is a versatile actress with stage, independent film and television credits. She has received positive reviews for her

November 6, 2014
Danielle Puretz

Danielle Puretz comes to Poetic Theater Productions by way of the John Gardner Fellowship. She works as the company’s Artistic Associate.

November 6, 2014
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Glenn Quentin

Glenn Quentin is an award-winning multi-hyphenate artist based in New York City.  Author of “No Place For Us” a collection

October 6, 2014
(rebeca) Rad

(Rebeca) Rad is from Brazil by ways of South Florida & Northern Michigan. Rad is a Performance Artist/ Healer/ New

September 26, 2014
Vanessa Rappa

Vanessa Rappa is a poet, playwright, actor, dancer, singer, song-writer, musician, choreographer, performer, artist. Her play in development “Scribbled Lines”

September 26, 2014
Marcus Scott

MARCUS SCOTT is a journalist, playwright and musical theater writer whose work has appeared in Out, Elle, Trace, Essence, Playbill,

September 24, 2014
Lisa Renkel

Lisa graduated from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2015 and has since been working as

September 22, 2014
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Takeo Rivera

Dr. Takeo Rivera has been a friend of Poetic Theater Productions since writing Goliath: A Choreopoem, which PTP first staged in

September 18, 2014
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Jay Rodriguez

Grammy nominated music veteran reed player . innovator -Jay Rodriguez has been an important artist in the NYC’s sonic and

September 12, 2014
Monique A Robinson

Monique is a shape shifter,  poet, playwright, screenwriter, big kid, and a master of make believe. Robinson was born and

September 12, 2014
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Ada Reso

Ada Reso is a queer woman, an immigrant, Albanian-American, and an artist. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art

September 4, 2014
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Maria Mia Salazar

Maria Mia Salazar is Poetic Theater Productions’ Veteran Voices Visual Artist in Residence Maria Mia Salazar is a Sculptor and

August 26, 2014
Celeste Sage (Tabatha Gayle)

Celeste Sage is the positive and negative attraction between good intention and transparent honesty. She is grateful, however hard that

August 26, 2014
Elise Santora

Recently appeared in the pre-Broadway run of Gotta Dance directed by Jerry Mitchell. Broadway credits: In The Heights with Lin-Manuel

August 26, 2014
Jay Santiago

Theatre and Acting has been my passion since my childhood in my native Puerto Rico, appearing in Telemundo’s Noche De

August 26, 2014
Alyssa “Lady Logic” Saunders

Alyssa “Lady Logic” Saunders is a 19 year old poet emcee from Brooklyn. With Hip hop and blues as her

August 26, 2014
Andrew Scoville

Andrew Scoville is a director and creator of original work. Current projects: Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Warehouse Theater

August 24, 2014
Katelyn Sheehan

Katelyn Sheehan spent 4 years active duty in the US Air Force repeatedly deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

August 19, 2014
Joshua D. Simpson

Joshuah was thrilled to debut in Poetic Theater Productions in such a queertastic piece as Breaking Our Silence: Shaping Our

August 18, 2014
Mshi Siyhanda

An Atlanta native who is currently residing in New York, Mshi Siyhanda majored in African American Studies at Georgia State

August 18, 2014
Sofía Snow

Sofía is a Boston-raised performance artist, educator, and community organizer. Her work has been featured in a range of literary

August 13, 2014
Saviana Stanescu

Saviana Stanescu is an award-winning Romanian playwright, poet and ARTivist based in New York/Ithaca. Her plays include Aliens with extraordinary skills,

August 7, 2014
Monica Steuer

Latest credits include: Muses (Fringe Festival, NYC); The Vagina Monologues (Peekskill, NY); The House Of The Spirits (Gala Theater, Washington

August 7, 2014
Ianne Fields-Stewart

Ianne Fields Stewart (pronouns: they/them/their) is a black, queer, and Transfeminine New York based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and

August 7, 2014
James P. Stanton

James P. Stanton is a 2014 graduate of the Hunter College Department of Theatre’s Master of Arts and Baruch College’s

August 7, 2014
Nathaniel Isiah Swanson

Nathaniel Isiah Swanson is a 19 year old artist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. In 2018, Nathaniel competed in the

August 4, 2014
Kyra Tantao

Kyra Tantao (she/her) is a Latina actor, musician, playwright, and graphic designer currently residing alongside the rats in Brooklyn, New

July 26, 2014
Sheila Tapia

Off-Broadway: CQ/CX (Atlantic Theater Co.), La Ruta (The Working Theater), ReEntry (Urban Stages), Elliot, A Soldiers Fugue (Culture Project/P73), Welcome

July 26, 2014
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Grace Tarry

Grace Tarry is currently a sophomore at Millennium Brooklyn high school. Their journey started with them messing around on Pixlr (a

July 26, 2014
Keomi Tarver

San Diego native, and Brooklyn transplant, Keomi Tarver is a dancer, writer, lover, teacher and friend. She began training at

July 26, 2014
Candace Tabbs

Dancer, Choreographer and Fitness Professional, Candace earned her B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior and minored in Dance at Barnard College.

July 26, 2014
Mei Ann Teo

Mei Ann Teo is a theatre/film maker whose work has toured globally, including Belgium’s Festival de Liege (Lyrics From Lockdown,

July 22, 2014
Colby Thompson

Colby is a 62 year old prison reform activist, re-entry advocate. She is a speaker and is writing her first

July 19, 2014
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Lynae DePriest aka Thoughtress

Lynae DePriest aka Thoughtress (they/them) is a black, queer, non-binary actor/comedian/poet/storyteller based in NYC. Their writing focuses on sharing their

July 19, 2014
Susan Toni

Susan Toni is originally from Fargo, ND. Since moving to NYC she was an artist in residence with Vissi Dance

July 12, 2014
Neil Totten

Neil Totton is an emerging singer/songwriter, dancer, choreographer and performance artist. His work blends music, video, fitness, storytelling and dance.

July 12, 2014
Temesgen Tocruray

Temesgen Tocruray is a proud Eritrean-American Actor/Activist. Some of his most recent credits include HERE Arts “Unpacking”, Kampala (Uganda) International

July 12, 2014
Becca Travis

As a multidisciplinary artist working out of Brooklyn, Becca constantly has her hands in a different project. She fluctuates between

July 9, 2014
Colista K. Turner

Colista K. Turner is a New York based Social Worker, Actress, and Performer. She co-facilitates a therapeutic Art Group in

July 6, 2014
Danny Ursetti

Danny Ursetti is a composer/percussionist from Southern California. Musical theater compositions include: A STATUE OF STATURE (Prospect Theater Company’s Musical

June 9, 2014
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Elizabeth Velasquez

Elizabeth Velasquez seeks for her work to facilitate human connection and interaction. The cyclical forces of destruction and reconstruction drive her

May 22, 2014
Nicole Ventura

Nicole Ventura is an actor and kickboxer from New Jersey. She has had the pleasure of collaborating with a number

May 21, 2014
Nabil Viñas

Nabil Viñas is an award-winning actor born, raised, and based in NYC. He’ll appear at the 55th New York Film

May 18, 2014
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Mercy Viola

Mercy Viola is a 22 year old Black and Native American nonbinary femme from Brooklyn, New York. They are passionate

May 18, 2014
Steph Walker

Steph was born and raised in NYC. A lover of many genres of music, Steph has trained in technique and

April 26, 2014
Vesta Walker

Vesta Walker hails from a family of artists and performers. Inspired by her family’s artistry, Vesta developed into a skilled

April 26, 2014
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Watani Marks-McThomas

Watani Marks-McThomas is a writer, director, producer whose directing career spans over twenty years. Watani studied film and television production

April 26, 2014
Catherine Weingarten

Catherine Weingarten is a NYC based playwright and a recent graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University, studying

April 22, 2014
Jennie West

Jennie West is a creative polymath, establishing compound connections between fine art, intuitive empathy, music and performance. Exploring themes of

April 22, 2014
Adam Wennick

Adam Wennick is an actor specializing in voiceover and a producer.  Select Voiceover credits: Nicktoons’ Yu-Gi-Oh, commercials for Fanta, Death

April 22, 2014
Emily Wexler

Emily Wexler is a Brooklyn-based musician/song-writer/teaching artist/activist who employs the transformative power of musical story-telling as a means toward collective

April 22, 2014
Andrew Willis-Woodward

Andrew Willis-Woodward is a New York based director, actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, dialect coach, writer, and deviser. He is a

April 18, 2014
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Tanaya Winder

Tanaya Winder is an author, singer / songwriter, poet, motivational speaker and educator who comes from an intertribal lineage of

April 18, 2014
Hollie Wright

    Hollie Wright is a Philadelphia native, Miss Wright began her career at The Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco!). Miss

April 9, 2014
Kryssy Wright

Kryssy Wright is a lighting designer in Brooklyn. Since relocating to Brooklyn she has designed and built sets, designed and

April 9, 2014
Ran Xia

Ran Xia is a Shanghai born, Brooklyn based playwright, theatre director, and sound designer. She is a resident director at

March 18, 2014
Stephan Wolfert

Stephan Wolfert, Actor/Writer/Director, MFA, (AEA, SAG) (US Army, ’86-’93, Medic & Infantry Officer) Stephan left a career in the military

March 12, 2014
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Kim Yaged

Kim Yaged is an award-winning writer and photographer whose work frequently addresses issues of identity and stereotyping with a focus on using art for social

February 26, 2014
Kat Yen

Kat Yen is the Co-Artistic Director and Resident Director of Spookfish Theatre Company. Recent NYC productions she directed and set

February 22, 2014
Shawn Randall

Shawn Randall is an actor, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, freestyle emcee, and producer. Born and raised in Brooklyn. He is a

February 13, 2014
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Donna Zephrine

Donna was born in Harlem New York and grew up in Bay Shore, Long island. She went to Brentwood High

January 22, 2014
Fernando García

Fernando García is a drummer, percussionist, and composer well versed in a wide variety of musical styles. Born in San

August 26, 2013
Kate Foster

With Poetic Theater Productions: Writer in “Presents…” development series Playwright, Vocalist and Actress in How to Stay in Poetic License 2013 Poet

January 4, 2013
Brad Peterson

With Poetic Theater Productions: Lighting Design for Love Redefined 2010 and Love Redefined 2014 Lighting Design for March ForWord 2010

January 2, 2013
Elliott D. Smith

With Poetic Theater Productions: Poet in March ForWord 2010 Poet and Actor in Filial Therapy in Culture Project’s Women Center

January 1, 2013
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