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Sharon Bridgforth is a writer that collaborates with actors, dancers, singers, visual artists and audiences to install moving soundscapes of her ritual/jazz texts. She is featured in: Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones's book, Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àse, and the Power of the Present Moment. Sharon is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow, a 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, 2020-2024 Playwrights' Center Core Member, 2022-2023 McKnight National Fellow and New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist, she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network.
Her work is featured in: Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; Feminist Studies Vol 48 Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back, and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press.
An Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) in Minneapolis, MN. PHT produced mainstage productions of Sharon's work in 2022 & 2023. Sharon's dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show premiered at PHT and is streaming on the Twin Cities PBS platform. A MAP Fund Scaffolding for Practicing Artists Coach, Sharon is a long time member of Pangea World Theater and Art2Action's National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation and is a mentor for Ananya Dance Theatre's NextGen ChoreoLab program: Chawrchā. More at sharonbridgforth.com
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Sharon Bridgforth is a writer that collaborates with actors, dancers, singers, visual artists and audiences to install moving soundscapes of her ritual/jazz texts. She is featured in: Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones's book, Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àse, and the Power of the Present Moment. Sharon is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow, a 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, 2020-2024 Playwrights' Center Core Member, 2022-2023 McKnight National Fellow and New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist, she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network.
Her work is featured in: Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; Feminist Studies Vol 48 Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back, and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press.
An Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) in Minneapolis, MN. PHT produced mainstage productions of Sharon's work in 2022 & 2023. Sharon's dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show premiered at PHT and is streaming on the Twin Cities PBS platform. A MAP Fund Scaffolding for Practicing Artists Coach, Sharon is a long time member of Pangea World Theater and Art2Action's National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation and is a mentor for Ananya Dance Theatre's NextGen ChoreoLab program: Chawrchā. More at sharonbridgforth.com
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