About Us
Florinda Bryant has been a writer, performer and director in Austin for over 10 years, working in the lineage of Ntozake Shange, Laurie Carlos and Sharon Bridgforth. She is Senior Artistic Associate with the Theatre Action Project and Director of The Austin Project Production Company (TAPPCo).
Cheryl Coward is a writer, multimedia artist and technology consultant. Formerly the Chief of Research at the Village Voice, her written work spans fiction, poetry, non-fiction essays, magazine articles and news reporting. Her first novel was Sugarhill and she is currently finishing a collection of short stories. She is a graduate of Smith College where she majored in philosophy.
Ana-Maurine Lara, a Harvard graduate and Cave Canem Fellow, is a prize winning novelist and poet (PEN/Northwest, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Brooklyn Arts Council, among others). She hosts a monthly salon gathering of Austin-based artists of color focused on the development of new work and language in the literary, visual and performance arts.
k. terumi (kt) shorb is a composer, performer, writer and activist. kt holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Oberlin College Conservatory. She also holds a master’s degree in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been commissioned by numerous artists including: Monique Buzzarté, Corey Dargel, Dulani and filmmaker Julie Cho.
Associated Artists:
Ashleigh N. Stone is a performer/composer/sound engineer. In 2009, Ashleigh will graduate with a Bachelor’s in Sound Recording Technology from Texas State University. Ashleigh plans on continuing her career in the East Texas area until Fall of 2009, when she will branch out to new horizons and work to fulfill her goals as a film and theatrical composer.
David Ohlerking is a visual artist working in oils, egg tempera and casein. He is currently represented by the Bill Davis Gallery.