ARTIST OFFERING 2021
ARTIST SHOWCASE

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Tierra Allen contributes to movements for collective liberation as a theatermaker, teaching artist, activist, writer, curator, facilitator, and more. She’s co-created spaces braiding performance, activism, healing, and critical consciousness-raising at theaters, community-based organizations, schools, and parks, behind prison walls and in the streets. She’s won an Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Dance Award, earned award nominations from Theatre Bay Area, and performed with the Black Choreographers Festival, Dance Brigade’s D.I.R.T. (Dance in Revolt(ing) Times) Festival, Campo Santo, BAMBDFEST, and others. She’s directed for Playwrights Foundation and PlayGround and choreographed for the National Queer Arts Festival, Spectrum Queer Media, and TheatreFIRST, where she’s a Company Member. Devised works with their collective The Bonfire Makers include PLACE to LAND (an oakland love story), which explored cycles of displacement and pathways toward a just Oakland, and a performance-based toolkit to organize for housing justice and Proposition 10.

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Lauren Bullock is a queer Black and Vietnamese writer, performer, teacher, events organizer, and model. Her work appears on AFROPUNK.com, Button Poetry, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Human Rights Campaign, and more. Lauren earned acclaim for pop culture commentary through editorials on Black Nerd Problems and serving as poetry editor for FreezeRay Poetry. To date, she has organized 7 international and regional arts conferences or festivals, and 5 monthly series. Lauren’s modeling work has also been featured by publications such as Gmaro Magazine and Out-and-Out Magazine. When not creating she enjoys fighting crime as a costumed vigilante of many aliases.

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Denzel Belin is a Minneapolis-based writer, director, actor, producer, and improviser. Belin is a longstanding cast member and writer at Brave New Workshop and a staff writer for AWF magazine and The Nordly. He serves as the Artistic Director for Threshold Theater, whose mission is to "produce fresh LGBTQ works." He currently writes and performs for “Queer Window,” an all-queer sketch show based in New York City. Belin recently presented a longform collection of solo sketches and storytelling, “With Love, From Washington” for the Blackness Is… Festival in Minneapolis. With Threshold Theater, he is currently leading a play reading series that will provide five playwrights the opportunity to workshop their play with a director and team of actors that concludes with a recorded reading that can be viewed by the public. You can learn more at https://www.thresholdtheatermpls.com/

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Monèt Noelle Marshall is a director, playwright, actor, curator, cultural organizer, producer, filmmaker and consultant. She defines her artistic practice as “rehearsal for the relationship’. She centers Black women and Black queer folks in her work while creating acess points for all people. She is the founding Artistic Director of MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, a Black theater company in Raleigh, NC that centers Black playwrights of the South. Her work has been experienced in St. Ann’s Warehouse, Cape Fear Regional Theatre,Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Northstar Church of the Arts, Manbites Dog Theatre and Mordecai Historic Park. Most recently she has collaborated with African American Policy Forum on Gucci’s Chime for Change zine, Scalawag Magazine, NC Museum of Art, Historic Stagville, City of Raleigh, Columbia University and Hayti Heritage Center. But above all else, Marshall is most proud of being Robin and Bryan’s daughter.

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New York based artist Jaxin Jackson They/He is a black, queer, trans, non-binary, artist and educator. Jaxin’s academic artistic training consists of an MA in Theatre Education from Hunter College where they were awarded the Lincoln Center Scholar Fellowship, and a BFA from DePaul University in Acting. Jaxin graduated from The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) where they studied creative writing. Jaxin’s professional acting and comedic work spans over a decade and since 2017 has been developing their voice as a visual artist. Jaxin's photography was published in Tayo Literary Magazines special issue ‘Soft’. Jaxin feels most called to explore themes of race, class, gender, sex, sexuality and spirituality in their artwork. Recently Jaxin can be seen in A Luv Tale, the series by creator Sidra Smith on BET +. Jaxin is also a yoga teacher, an herbalist and a buddhist practitioner.

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They have been in the entertainment for over two decades and identifies as Trans Femme Non Binary, bringing more visibility to the Trans Non Binary community through theatre, film, television and other mediums. They are on the board of Being Alive, CA LGBT Arts Alliance, Gender Justice Los Angeles and have worked with Bespoke Plays, Coerage Theatre, and Sorority. They have moderated panels for Trans Lounge, Everybody Gym, TG/NB Project, GROOV3, Navel, The Walla Las Memorias and Trans Pride 2016-2020.

They have hosted many events such as the 2019 AIDS LifeCycle Finishing Line Festival, DTLA Proud Festival and Grand Park’s Proud Stories.

They just recently closed MARCH, a collaborative garage political theatre piece with the LA LGBT Theatre, was one of the exclusive acts for the Victory Fund Fundrasier, was the keynote speaker for the El Camino College 2020 Pride Festival and just in Tammie Brown’s Holiday Sparkle on Amazon.

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T. Chester is a scholar, artist, and organizer from South Florida. As an artist, scholar, and organizer T. centers storytelling as a way to understand difference, promote empathy, and create change.

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Leelee Jackson (she/her) is a playwright whose work centers itself with the lives of Black womxnhood. In 2017, her play Comb Your Hair (Or You’ll Look Like a Slave) was honored and performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as a national finalist. In 2019, her full length minstrel piece The Shit Show: An American Allegory was a national finalist at the Austin Film Festival. In 2020, she launched Black Light Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to Black artists and their work. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts/Playwriting in 2019. Jackson is from the Bay Area and currently resides in Southern California.

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My multidisciplinary practice makes full use of my body exhibited as a medium and object. I currently am focused on making video collages and performances that remix archival footage, photography, recorded interviews, dance, and music to artistically speculate on past and present perspectives in Black America. My artistic vision is to translate complex ideologies into works that are conscientiously innovative and psychoanalytic. I create my work holistically from what I observe in the world to promote the power of art to catalyze introspection and social change.