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Current Work
Now Touring ...
Currently Artist In-Residence at Northwestern University's Performance Studies Department, Bridgforth is available to present workshops, staged readings and productions of her work. Bridgforth will cast performers from the community that the work is being presented in.
For more go to: sharonbridgforth.com |
Short Bio
Bridgforth has broken ground in the creation and presentation of the performance/novel. Bridgforth’s work has fostered the study of Black lesbian performance literature in academic settings around the country including: Pitzer College; New York University, Temple University; Stanford University; Northwestern University; Tisch School For The Arts; University of California, Berkeley; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; and University of Texas, Austin.
Bridgforth has developed a method of facilitating creative writing that she calls, Finding Voice through which she facilitates a creative process, encourages writers to: use the page as a canvas; use identity-culture-memory-family histories-dreams; articulate and examine the socio-political realities of their lives in a form that is part poetry, part oral history, part performance art; to examine their creative process; to work in community as they use art as a vehicle for social justice. Bridgforth is Anchor Artist for The Austin Project (sponsored by The Center for African and African American Studies, U. T. Austin). Her Finding Voice Facilitation Manuel will be published by University of Texas Press in a book titled--"The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic" edited by Dr. Joni Jones , Dr. Lisa L. Moore and Bridgforth.
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Honors
New Dramatists Member. 2 time Alpert Award Nominee in Theatre - Lambda Literary Award winner - YWCA Woman Of The Year/Arts Austin, Texas |
Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
New Dramatists
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Contact
PO Box 817
Austin, TX 78767 |
Artist Location
On The Road
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Art forms
Theater
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Type of artist
Writer, Performer, Arts Educator, Director, Other
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General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Feminism/Gender Issues, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Religion/Spirituality |
Keywords
Black
Lesbian
Cultural
Jazz
Spiritual
lesbian
queer
women
Juke Joint
Blues
Spoken Word
Poetry |
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