Projects

In this ongoing 2024 performance research project, I use the concept of containment in drama therapy to hold space and honor stories of loss with eight BIPOC women who have experienced pregnancy loss. 

TAIS is a freelance artist organization that I co-founded in June 2020. It offers a series of spontaneous/playback theatre sessions and workshops at Arizona State University. 

This was a Performance as Research project which aimed at exploring the liveness of stories and rich history embossed in/on our bodies in the form of scars (internal and external), tribal marks, and birthmarks. The piece was an introductory performance of my research data for a larger project and a representation of my interaction with the personal archive (stories) of a selection of my research participants.

The issue of male presence in physical and ideological terms within what should be women-only spaces is not just a matter of ideological contestation and concern within the Women's Movement globally; it is also a serious expression of the backlash against women's attempts to become autonomous of men in their personal/political relationships and interactions (McFadden, 2021)

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In 2021, I collected observation and interview data from an online women-only space to explore the Complexities of Women Creating and Taking Up space in Patriarchal hegemonic Spaces. The data and discoveries inspired a performance that was shared with the research participants. 

Enough is a nationwide project that features a series of 10mins plays written by youth across the United States as an action against gun violence. I directed one of the pieces in collaboration with Binary theatre in April 2022. Link to a news report about the project: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/young-playwrights-use-the-theater-to-confront-the-trauma-of-gun-violence 

TAIS collaborated with the Arizona State University's center for mindfulness for a virtual Midday mindfulness for Arizona State Students.

Link to session: http://links.asu.edu/mindfulness

The human body holds rich knowledge, which is not only stored in our DNA but our internal/external scars, tribal marks, birthmarks, tattoos, and piercings. I consider the human body’s unique way of storing data as the human body/archive. In this project, I attempted to  “undata” research data of the human body/archive of my research participants through Ghanaian-inspired
ritualistic body movement, containment, distancing in drama therapy, and videography in a period of social distancing. The project's purpose was to explore the healing potentials of performance for a researcher/performer and their research participants.