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Abigail A. Ramsay
TurningWheel Collective Advisory Board
TurningWheel is proud to have artists of impact creating meaningful change in their communities on its advisory board. We are still young and continually adding advisors as we see the areas where expertise is most needed.
Please be introduced, visit their links, and support the good work they are putting out into our world.
Cynthia L. Cooper, Gender Justice Advisor
Cynthia L. Cooper (Cindy) is a playwright, journalist and author.
Cooper’s plays have been performed in the U.S., Canada and Europe (England, Hungary, Finland, Israel, elsewhere). Her plays include 15 full-lengths, 20+ one-acts, and five plays for young people. Play publications (16) include Heinemann, Applause, Smith-Kraus, Holt, Paper Mache Press, Brooklyn Publishers, Gihon River Press, The New Press, and others. Her plays are stylized structurally, generally mixing drama and comedy, and often reflecting directly or indirectly upon topics of social import. Cooper is a graceful and skilled writer wrote one critic. She has won playwriting awards from Nantucket Theater, Pen and Brush, Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, Malibu International Short Play Festival, many others. She was twice a Jerome Fellow and has won grants from Northwest Area Foundation, The Field, and elsewhere. She is ah Affiliated Member of the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, League of Professional Theater Women, and served for five years on the board of the Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media. (continue reading)
Cynthia L. Cooper – www.cyncooperwriter.net
ReproFreedomArts.org – ReproFreedomArts.org
D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, PhD Regional Cultural Advisor
D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, PhD Theatre: Performance as Public Practice
D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson is a Caribbean American scholar, born and raised in Jamaica. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. She is the founder and artistic director of the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble dedicated to Black theatres in the African continuum featuring African, Caribbean, and African American plays and performances. Other creative works include previous sculpture and theatre design commissions and exhibitions. Current scholarly research focusses on the social constructs of race, gender, sexuality, coloniality/decoloniality, and Black feminisms, African and Indigenous spiritual practices, and sacred queer spaces in masquerades. (continue reading)
ResearchGate – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/D-Forbes-Erickson
Academia.edu – https://bgsu.academia.edu/DARForbesErickson
The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble – https://www.the-pate.com/
D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson – https://www.forbes-erickson.com/