Jeanna Phillips: I am a theatre maker and educator who creates work for people of all ages. I develop new theatre as a songwriter and creator in collaboration with fellow multidisciplinary artists. I am constantly in the process of integrating my creative career with my work as an educator— interrogating how I can sew my values as an art maker into my teaching practice, and vice versa. I’m interested in creating accessible structures that redefine traditional collaborative roles and invite new theatre-makers and non-performers to take ownership of theatre making. I value courageous strangeness, rigorous playfulness, and radical empathy.

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nicHi douglas: i am an experimental theater maker and creative producer; i am also an artivist and organizer. my creative work is focused on better understanding the self (and one’s lineage) through imaginative emotional study. while i usually center Black women & femmes in my work, the Theater for Young Audiences extension of my practice is focused on all young voices and minds. i create multidisciplinary works of Afro Absurdism, investigatory spectacle, and now, environmentally-engaged theater that doubles as a climate justice curriculum.  i work in close collaboration with other artists to devise and/or develop these new works, often creating a distinct collaborative process that is reflective of, or directly aligned with, the material being generated. i value self-discovery and care.