The Lab is grateful and humbled by the support of the Erica Pincus Arabesque Foundation for our work in Performing Arts and Diplomacy at Georgetown University. These funds will directly support our Student Fellows Program – … FULL BIO
Սօնա Թաթոյեան | Sona Tatoyan is a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American actor/writer/producer who spent childhood summers in Aleppo where she learned about the Armenian Genocide. The history book in her small Indiana town made no mention of it. … FULL BIO
Yura Sapi (they/them) is a visionary leader and interdisciplinary artist dedicated to co-creating joyful and abundant futures in harmony with each other and Mother Earth. Yura is Indigenous Kichwa, with Ecuadorian and Colombian citizenship and a lifelong connection to their birthplace on Manahatta island. … FULL BIO
Teddy Mangawa is a professional theatre actor, director and educator born and raised in the high-density suburb of Mabvuku, Harare, Zimbabwe. He comes from a large family of nine siblings. … FULL BIO
Wanjiku Mwawuganga is a Kenyan performing artist based in Nairobi. She is the first born daughter of an accountant and business woman. She was drawn to performance through primary school drama clubs and national festivals. … FULL BIO
Elina Kulikova was born in St Petersburg. She is a theatre director, performance artist and writer in exile, currently based in Switzerland. She works mainly with auto-fiction and documentary performance, … FULL BIO
Samwel Japhet is a Tanzanian dance artist, choreographer and social entrepreneur who found his voice through dance after a rough childhood of homelessness and abuse. Today he uses dance as artistic expression for story-telling. … FULL BIO
Riham Isaac is a performance artist from Palestine, weaving together a range of artistic practices – acting, singing, dancing, and video. She holds an MA in “Performance Making” from Goldsmiths. … FULL BIO
Tanvi Hegade is contemporary dancer, dance movement therapist and German translator, who grew up across West India in Pune, Nashik and Baroda. Having spent a decade training in and performing contemporary dance and physical theatre, … FULL BIO
萩原雄太 | Yuta Hagiwara was raised in Mito, a typical suburb in Japan which suffered “cultural poverty.” In his home, there was no culture- no books, records or arts. His family strove to be “normal” … FULL BIO
蔡逸得 | Yide Cai was born in Shenzhen, China, a young and adventurous city which he calls the America of China. His parents moved to Shenzen and built a life from nothing, … FULL BIO
Jasmin Cardenas was born in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago to Colombian parents who immigrated to America in search of a better life. Being a first-generation American caught between two cultures, … FULL BIO
