Camille Simone Thomas (she/her) is a Jamaican /African-American multi-hyphenate playwright, actor, solo performer, producer, and arts educator from Detroit, Michigan. As a playwright, her plays have been featured with The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, The National Women's Theatre Festival, Dixon Place, Lime Arts Theatre Company, American Slavery Project, Blackboard playwriting series, The Red Curtain Theatre, and published with The Playground Experiment and Freshworks Magazine. She was a fellow of the 21-22 Reel Sister’s Film festival for her web-series “Gro Up”. Additionally, she was a 2022 finalist for Art House Production’s INKubator New Play Program. As an arts educator, she has taught with The Apollo Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Dreamyard, and Partnership with Children's Center for Arts Education. She’s a 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coaltion Artivism Fellow, an associate artist with Sanguine Theatre company, a company member with the Canady Foundation for the Arts, and a previous cohort member of Moxie Arts Incubator as a line producer. She is an alum of Broadway Advocacy Coalitions Artivism course, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s DEAR fellowship, The Theatre Producers of Color program, 24 Hour Play Nationals, and a former Acting Apprentice at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Here is Camille's professional website where one can learn more about her work: https://www.camillesthomas.com/
Click HERE to access the SVE Related Reading page, where you'll find a Washington Post Opinion article by Alexandra Moe titled "How theater can teach our kids to be empathetic." Click HERE to watch a brief interview with Camille, in which she reflects on this article and the benefits of engaging with and teaching theater.
Courtney Bryan Devon (they/them) is a Black, Queer, nonbinary Theatremaker, Somatic Practitioner, and Arts Educator. Through their work, Courtney creates revealing, reviving and revolutionary experiences rooted in Fable, Fellowship, and Freedom. With core curiosities that lie at the meeting place of poetic creativity, physical expression, and cultural curation, Courtney is passionate in analyzing, alchemizing, and materializing through movement and dramaturgical discovery.
Courtney’s work has transported them from Brooklyn streets, to Berkshire mountains, to Bahamian beaches and Beyond.
Through-lines in Courtney’s work can be traced to the anthropology and authorship of Zora Neale Hurston, the poetry of Maya Angelou, and the might of Muhammad Ali. For nearly a decade, Courtney has proudly served over a dozen New York City schools and organizations as a multimodal teaching artist working with hundreds of students on Social + Emotional learning through the Performing Arts.
Courtney is most enlivened in enriching and connecting communities through creativity, believing in the universal power of the arts and storytelling to facilitate environments of learning, healing, transformative justice, and radical joy.
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Weaux (pronounced "Woah!") Babineaux (they/them) is a teaching artist, actor, and musician originally from Houston, Texas and now based in New York City. They graduated with a BA in Theatre from Fordham University. As a teaching artist, their work centers on helping students find their authentic voices and build community through theatre, music, movement, and performance.
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