Working across live performance, civic dramaturgy, and cross-sector partnership to leverage contemporary art practice as a cross-cultural convener and catalyst for new social possibilities.
As a theater maker and director, my work primarily concerns embodied cultural memory across the African diaspora, often engaging archive as a means to re-member the past, center life on the margins, and imagine alternate futures.
As a strategic arts leader, I design and lead innovative, large-scale arts initiatives at the intersection of creative practice, public engagement, and sustainable social impact.
Together these experiences reinforce a fundamental mission: to nurture dynamic creative encounters that effectively shape how our communities engage the heart of our cultural institutions and, in turn, how our institutions engage the past, present, and future realities of our communities.
Photo: Jackie Abbott
Tyler Thomas 