Artist

Kenya is a Philadelphia born lifelong student of the arts, overall having experience in directing, acting, choreography, playwriting, devised theater, cultural curating, facilitation of workshops and theater education. She graduated from The New School College of Performing Arts in May of 2022, with a Master’s of Arts in Entrepreneurship and Arts Management. Some of her most recent projects include performing in Yami, a creative staged reading at Lincoln Center’s New Works: Emerging Artist Festival. She was commissioned by her alma mater to co-write an adaptation of Through the Looking Glass for the school’s POC Mainstage Takeover, set to go up April 2024. She was a recipient of the BGFF Grant in 2023 for her collective The Network Across Project. She also works in children’s theater, directing The Evolution of Hip Hop: BCCS and Night at the Apollo, two original plays. She also facilitated viBeCollab’s theater workshop Shadow Workin’ and subsequently directed their final performance Shadows in 2022. In addition to her personal artistic ventures, she’s taught theater to children in afterschool programs in Philadelphia and New York for the last three years. In December 2023 she found her school home at a charter school in Bed Stuy as a full time instructor. Through the years she’s been able to hone in on her personal artistic mission to create boundary pushing work, reflecting the underrepresented beauty of Black life and amplifying the voices of Black women and femmes through the performing arts.