Photo: Collage of Emerge 2017 participants.
EmergeNYC has fostered a thriving community of BIPOC, (im)migrant, and LGBTQIA+ performing artists and activists. Alumni include award-winning dancers, theater-makers, curators, directors, choreographers, filmmakers, grantmakers, university faculty, arts administrators, healers, educators, and multidisciplinary artists. Many continue to collaborate with each other and with faculty long beyond the program—they’ve formed collectives, created artist residencies, directed each other in plays, made music together, taught together, and (as seen in their testimonials) been fearless together. Below are some of the folks in this love-fueled network of 370 people and counting.
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2026 Flagship Cohort
Adela Wagner, 2026
Adela Wagner (they/them) is an immigrant queer interdisciplinary artist, musician and community organizer…
Adri Vergara Merino, 2026
adri vergara merino (they/she) is a vocalist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Drawing from an…
Alice Klugherz, 2026
Alice Klugherz/wonderland.wizehart (she/her) started performing her docu-whimsy (talk/dance) in 1988 as part of…
Cambria Kylinn Martin, 2026
Cambria Kylinn Martin (she/they), is a multi-hyphenate playwright and screenwriter with a BA in Writing…
Diana Sophia, 2026
Diana Sophia (she/her) is a Mexican-born singer, songwriter, and interdisciplinary artist based in…
Jacob Cordas, 2026
Jacob Cordas (he/they), soon to be Master of the Fine Arts according to NYU, has been making theatre of all…
Joscelyn Jurich, 2026
Joscelyn Jurich is a writer, educator, and sometime image-maker. Her writing on photography, film, and the visual arts…
Julia Vasconcelos, 2026
Julia Vasconcelos (she/her) is a Brazilian visual artist working across printmaking, painting, and performance, moving…
Marisa Olson, 2026
Marisa Olson (they/them) is a Queercrip, Trans-Indigenous artist, writer, and curator whose work draws on the…
Miki Surma, 2026
Miki Surma (they/she) is a Korean- American storyteller and writer. They have a poetic and bold writing voice…
Moon Warner, 2026
Moon Warner (he/him) is a Black, queer and trans artist working on the Lenapehoking (“the Land of the…
Silma Berrada, 2026
Silma Sierra Berrada (she/her). African American and Moroccan playwright, poet, and visual artist. She’s drawn to…
Vinny Cinque, 2026
Vinny Cinque (he/him) is a caretaker, as well as a Brooklyn based actor, theater artist, producer, writer, director, and…
2025 Flagship Cohort
Alexis Aceves Garcia, 2025
Alexis Aceves Garcia (they/them) is in a practice of dreaming against the colonial imaginary and makes…
Ama Acquah, 2025
Ama (she/her) is a dedicated educator, doula, healer, and lifelong learner with a passion for art…
Ayeraye Akosua, 2025
Ayeraye Akosua (H., she/they) is a storyteller and artist across many realms, dedicated to healing…
Emily Reyes, 2025
Emily Reyes EmergeNYC Flagship (2025) Emily Reyes (she/her) is a performance artist, model,...
Hassan Akua, 2025
Hassan Akua EmergeNYC Flagship (2025) Hassan Khalid Uhuru Akua (he/him) is a multidisciplinary...
Irene Villaseñor, 2025
Irene Villaseñor EmergeNYC Flagship (2025) Irene Villaseñor (she/her) explores bi-societal...
Isa Rivera, 2025
Isa Rivera EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)isa rivera (ismenia, she/they) is a Colombian-American...
Jai Mohan, 2025
Jai Mohan EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Jai Mohan (he/him, xe/xem, ze/hir) is a: proudly disabled,...
Kari Ostensen, 2025
Kari Ostensen EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Kari Ostensen (they/them) is a trans mover and...
Katherine Toukhy, 2025
Katherine Toukhy EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Katherine Toukhy (she/her) draws from improvised...
Linnea Scott, 2025
Linnea Scott EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Linnea (they/them) is a New York based multidisciplinary...
Lydia 黎珈璐 [Lí Jiā-Lù], 2025
Lydia 黎珈璐 [Lí Jiā-Lù] EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Lydia 黎珈璐 [Lí Jiā-Lù] (they/them) is a Beijing...
LySaundra Janeé, 2025
LySaundra Janeé EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)LySaundra Janeé (she/her) is a multidisciplinary...
Miriam Parker, 2025
Miriam Parker EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Miriam (she/her), named after the poet Kenneth...
Noah Ortega, 2025
Noah Ortega EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Noah Ortega (they/them) is a queer, Chicano,...
ProgettoFATUO, 2025
ProgettoFATUO EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)ProgettoFATUO was born in 2020 from a shared vision of...
Tray Tsui, 2025
Tray Tsui EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)Tray Tsui (they/them)is a Brooklyn-based non-binary artist,...
2025 Virtual Cohort
féi iká shumarí, 2025 Virtual
féi iká shumarí EmergeNYC Virtual (2025)féi iká shumarí (she/her), b.1993, Chihuahua, Mexico,...
grey xiao 肖鬼孙, 2025 Virtual
grey xiao 肖鬼孙 EmergeNYC Virtual (2025)grey 肖鬼孙 xiao (any/all) aspires to be a career...
Lina Beltré, 2025 Virtual
Lina Beltré EmergeNYC Virtual (2025)Lina Beltré (she/her) is a multidisciplinary international...
Vanessa Hernández Cruz, 2025 Virtual
Vanessa Hernández Cruz EmergeNYC Virtual (2025)Vanessa Hernández Cruz (she/her/ella) is an...
2024 Flagship Cohort
Anabel Lugones De Leon, 2024
Anabel Lugones De León (they/she) was born and raised in the Bronx…
Annam Joy, 2024
I am a multimedia visual artist, performance artist, a climate organizer, teacher and drag performer…
Carol Montealegre, 2024
Carol Montealegre (she/her) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and social researcher born and raised in Colombia…
Chala June, 2024
Chala June (they/he/she) is a genderqueer Congolese-American storyteller and multidisciplinary artist…
Emery Xavier, 2024
Emery Xavier (they/them) is a Performance Artist who received their BS in Dance from LIU Brooklyn…
Graciella Ye Tsunami, 2024
Graciella Ye’Tsunami (they/Tsunami/we/Ocean) is a queer Black fat trans non-binary artist…
Jen Diaz, 2024
Jen Diaz (she/her) is a proud Puerto Rico-born, Mississippi-raised, & NYC-living theatre artist & professional silly goose…
Lindsay Shields, 2024
Lindsay M. Shields (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work centers on building community…
Maleek Rae, 2024
Maleek Rae (they/them) is a gender queer multidisciplinary Rapper/Writer/Actor hailing from the...
Mikey Delgado, 2024
Mikey Delgado aka Richard (they/he/she), a queer trans Latine native New Yorker…
Srishti Srivastava, 2024
I am a multimedia artist, designer, writer, and educator from India based in New York City…
Sujetka Val Terkes, 2024
Sujetka (she/her) is a queer multidisciplinary artist, born in Lima, Perú, currently based in New York City…
Susanne McHugh, 2024
Susanne McHugh (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and mental health advocate living in Queens, New York…
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Xin “Zinc” Tong, 2024
Xin “Zinc” Tong 童心 (they/them) is a Chinese born director, performer, scenographer, and teaching artist based in NYC…
2024 Virtual Cohort
Angel Hubris, 2024 Virtual
Angel Hubris, aka Bimbi, is a multi-disciplinary Albanian-American artist living in Brooklyn, NY/Lenapehoking…
Brooke Lever, 2024 Virtual
Brooke Lever (he/she/they/xi) is a seasoned performer and queer performance artist hailing from Memphis, Tennessee…
Cass Regan, 2024 Virtual
Cass Regan (they/them) is a theylien, organizer, and singing stripping drag thing…
Esthefanie Solano, 2024 Virtual
Esthef is a queer, CaliMexicana raised in Boyle Heights, California who has been organizing since the age of 15…
Greer Sikes, 2024 Virtual
Greer Sikes (zi/zir) is a matrianarchal, queer performance trickster + pleasure artist using a hybrid of live and visual mediums…
Hope Ward, 2024 Virtual
Hope Ward is an actor, writer, director, and academic hailing from Providence, RI…
Lía Peña, 2024 Virtual
Lía Peña (she/her) is a Tejana / Norteña (Mexican) dancer and singer with roots from both sides of the South Texas & Mexican border…
Lisette Morel, 2024 Virtual
Lisette Morel is a Dominican-American artist, mother and educator based in New Jersey…
Nicole Crowley Muro, 2024 Virtual
Nicole Crowley Muro (b. México, 2001, she/they) seeks convergence between the plastic, performing, and visual arts, with the aim of…
Shola Cole, 2017 & 2024 Virtual
Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny (they/themme & she/hers) is a New York based performance artist and Afro-Caribbean/UK born immigrant…
Stevfni.XYZ, 2024 Virtual
Stevfni.XYZ “Stev” (she/they) is an emerging new media artist and academic hailing from the NYC metropolitan area…
Valarie Walker, 2024 Virtual
Valarie Walker (she/her) is an educator, actress, writer and storyteller. A native NY’er…
2023 Flagship Cohort
Adin Lenahan, 2023
Adin Lenahan (they/them) is a writer and performer. Adin makes art about losers, the kinds of …
Alice Anonymous, 2023
Alice Anonymous is a New York City-based multi-disciplinary human and Internet-user.
Ana Anu, 2023
Ana Anu (she/they) is an author and multi-media artist. Their work, centering eco feminism, has…
Brynne O’Rourke, 2023
Brynne O’Rourke (they/them) is a white, transfemme director, theatre practitioner, teaching artist and…
Chris Bisram, 2023
Chris Bisram is an Indo-Caribbean Multidisciplinary Artist with a primary focus in dance and theater…
Evan Simone, 2023
Evan Simone Frazier is an interdisciplinary artist from Long Island, NY. Evan is trained in …
Hunter Petree, 2023
Hunter is a creator, performer, and writer making work about the foundational stories of whiteness…
Katherine Bahena-Benítez, 2023
Katherine Bahena-Benitez (They/Them/Elle) is a Queer Mexican Indigenous actor, poet…
Kelsey Sky, 2023
Kelsey Sky (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, a public school teacher in training…
Kristen Holfeuer, 2023
Kristen Holfeuer is an actor and director from Saskatchewan now based in Brooklyn…
Kristian Sorensen, 2023
Kristian Sorensen is a queer multi-hyphenate from Southern California pursuing artistic work that holds…
Madi O’Halloran, 2023
Madi O’Halloran (she/they), hails from Morningside Heights, New York City, Lenape Land. A movement…
Mikah Baumrin-Daniels, 2023
Mikah Baumrin-Daniels (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in dance and performance…
miscelvnea, 2023
miscelvnea (they/she, it) (elle, elli/ellu) is a Boriké-born multimedia and interdisciplinary artist whose …
Néstor Pérez-Molière, 2023
Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, currently residing in The Bronx. His …
Resham Mantri, 2023
Resham Mantri is a queer, first generation Indian-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, death…
Robert Anthony Gibbons, 2023
Robert Anthony Gibbons is author of Close to the Tree” (Three Rooms Press, 2012) and “Flight” (Poets …
Samira Mendoza, 2023
Samira Mendoza is a transdisciplinary performance artist, visual artist, curator, and educator …
Star Mitchell, 2023
Star Mitchell is a Celestial force descended from the sun and the moon’s love. A Brooklyn based…
Wow Quisqueya, 2023
Wow Quisqueya (they/them) is a Brooklyn born and bred multidimensional artist who …
2023 Virtual Cohort
Dragonfly, 2023 Virtual
Dragonfly is also Robin LaVerne Wilson [and alter ego Miss Justice Jester]–multidisciplinary …
Inés de Arce, 2023 Virtual
Inés de Arce (she/her, ella) is a Spanish-Argentinian actress and creator based in Madrid, Spain…
Jimena Navas, 2023 Virtual
Jimena Navas is a multidisciplinary human being. After ten years fighting the patriarchy and its …
Karley Wasaff, 2023 Virtual
Karley Wasaff is a non-binary and pansexual movement artist based in NYC. Karley’s current choreography…
Larissa Jeanniton, 2023 Virtual
Larissa is a Haitian American, 27-year-old Taurus with a heart and soul for political theater. Her acting…
Leah Shelley, 2023 Virtual
Leah Shelley is a performance artist and writer based in Wisconsin. They are currently interested in the…
Lorena Pipa, 2023 Virtual
Lorena Pipa is a Brazilian multimedia artist who studied Image and Sound Design at University of Buenos…
Lucy Phillips, 2023 Virtual
I am a grieving person, by default I am an artist. Searching for my own autonomy in images and websites…
Manuel Lopez, 2023 Virtual
From far Far Rockaway to the Catskill Mountains, Manuel E. “Manny” Lopez is fluttering about …
Mario Lamothe, 2023 Virtual
Mario LaMothe is a Haitian-American performance artist, curator, and scholar. He was a 2021-22 Links Hall…
Nrzagaray, 2023 Virtual
Nrzagaray (Culiacán, Sinaloa, 1998) is a multi-disciplinary artist and Audio Visual Arts and Communication…
Pati Cruz Martínez, 2023 Virtual
Born cuir (queer) and brought up catholic in the colonized archipelago of Borikén (Puerto Rico). The …
Saul Villegas, 2023 Virtual
l Saul Villegas (The Sun) is a First-Year MFA student in the Future Stages cohort in the Digital Arts & …
Sophia Valera Heinecke, 2023 Virtual
Sophia Valera Heinecke (she/her) is a writer for the screen and stage as well as a dramaturg, archivist, and…
2022 Flagship Cohort
Autumn Newcomb, 2022
Autumn Newcomb is a funkadelic multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a radical joy…
Aviya Hernstadt, 2022
Aviya is a New York-Jewish multidisciplinary performance artist working primarily in …
Catherine Chen, 2022
Catherine Chen is a poet and performer living in Brooklyn. They are the author of the chapbook …
Cristina Bartley Dominguez, 2022
Cristina is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice centers…
Josiah Vasquez, 2022
Josiah Vasquez (he/they) is an alum of Tufts University’s Class of 2020, having graduated with a…
Jovon Outlaw, 2022
Jovon Outlaw (they/he) is a Bronx-born and raised interdisciplinary artist. They specialize in …
kc jackperson, 2022
kc jackperson is a dance and movement artist in new york city. for kc dance is a means of …
Maira Duarte, 2022
Maira Duarte, a Mexican New York-based artist, educator, and organizer, champions non-…
Mobéy Lola Irizarry, 2022
Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist…
Naisha Solomon, 2022
Naisha Solomon is a Trinbagonian singer-songwriter, sonic archivist and Caribbean scholar living and…
Parker White, 2022
Honey Bundy/Parker White (he/him) is a genderqueer trans man and drag artist based in …
Yali Romagoza, 2022
Yali Romagoza (she/her) is a Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist currently based in Queens…
2022 Virtual Cohort
Aitor Gil Flores, 2022 Virtual
Aitor Gil Flores (he/she/they) is a non-binary person currently finding their way and and place in the …
Alexa Vasquez, 2022 Virtual
Alexa Vasquez is a Pisces, a writer and artist from Oaxacalifornia. Her visual artworks are inspired by her…
Arantxa Araujo, 2017 & 2022 Virtual
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially…
Ching-In Chen, 2022 Virtual
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher…
Dimple Shah, 2022 Virtual
Dimple Shah is a transdisciplinary performance and printmaking artist from Bangalore, India. Her work…
Dora Selva, 2022 Virtual
Dora Selva is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rio de Janeiro. With Brazilian and Honduran descent…
Ikpemesi Ogundare, 2022 Virtual
Ikpemesi O (she/her/hers) is a Nigerian-American musician, artist and performer. She loves exploring…
Ivonne Navas Dominguez, 2022 Virtual
Ivonne is a multidisciplinary artist from Cali, Colombia, based in Mexico since 2010. She uses performance…
Jaguar Mary X, 2022 Virtual
Jaguar Mary X is a glossolalia vocalist, ritual performance artist and mover, practicing since 1991…
Júpiter, 2022 Virtual
Júpiter is a transdisciplinary artist, mother, social change agent, and educator from Puerto Rico. She is a…
Marilou Mariko Carrera, 2022 Virtual
Marilou Mariko Carrera (they/siyá*/she) is a queer Filipinx-Japanese cultural worker…
Monet Clark, 2022 Virtual
Monet Clark is an eco-feminist and performance based video and photographic artist, curator, and…
Nina Terra, 2022 Virtual
Nina Terra is a Brazilian artist-therapist who lives in the city of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After…
Raquel Karro, 2022 Virtual
Raquel Karro is an actress, director, choreographer, teacher of performing arts, pilates instructor…
Rosina Ivanova, 2022 Virtual
Rosina Ivanova works in community art, public art, ecological actions, performance art, and experimental…
viento izquierdo ugaz, 2022 Virtual
viento izquierdo ugaz is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, educator & language…
2021 Cohort
Angelica Monteiro, 2021
Angelica Monteiro (she/her) is a storyteller, educator, and movement artist from the Brazilian Amazon…
Candace Hudert, 2021
Candace Hudert (any pronouns) is a multidisciplinary mess-maker and artist from Richmond, VA. From…
Carolina Teixeira, 2021
Carolina Teixeira is a Brazilian artist, performer, and political activist. She is a disabled woman and her work…
Christian Cruz, 2021
Christian Cruz is a conceptual artist, educator, and independent arts writer. Cruz is the creator of Dallas…
Cristóbal Guerra, 2021
Cristóbal Guerra (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from San Juan, PR. With a background in …
Dahlia Li, 2021
Dahlia Li (she/her) is an artist and writer currently completing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania…
Emma Pattison, 2021
Emma Pattison is a queer multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working with dance and video…
Garrett Sager, 2021
Garrett Sager (a.k.a. Melissabeth) (he/they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in theater and…
Jasmine Hayden, 2021
Jasmine is a queer Black, Mexican Indigenous multidisciplinary artist, healer, social equity facilitator & …
Jason Wang, 2021
Jason Wang (they/he) is a Queer Chinese-American playwright, actor, and game developer from Queens…
John Maria Gutierrez, 2021
John Maria Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist who performs on screen and stage nationally and…
Jordan Elizabeth Reed, 2021
Jordan Elizabeth Reed is an Afro-Indigenous-Boricua theater, burlesque, and performance artist…
Julia Rocha-Nava, 2021
Julia Rocha-Nava (they/them/ellx), who performs under the artist name Chispa, is a non-binary first-…
june yuen ting, 2021
june yuen ting dreams of another world that is already here—a world, or worlds that are so expansive, so…
Kelindah bee, 2021
Kelindah bee (they/them) is a nonbinary educator and drag performance artist known as …
Kevin Quiles Bonilla, 2021
Kevin Quiles Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He explores …
Kiyo Gutiérrez, 2021
Kiyo Gutiérrez is a Mexican performance artist based in Guadalajara. Ecofeminist…
Mariano Ruiz, 2021
Mariano Ruiz is a trans nonbinary cabaret artivist from Mexico City. They use humor, pop culture, and…
Mijori Goodwin, 2021
Mijori is a multidisciplinary creative focused on healing through sight & sound. As a singer-songwriter …
olaiya olayemi, 2021
olaiya olayemi is a blk/trans/femme/womxxxn/anti-disciplinary artist/educator/and organizer who…
Pêdra Costa, 2021
Pêdra Costa (they/she) is a ground breaking, formative Brazilian, Visual & Urban Anthropologist, Performer…
Rodrigo Arenas-Carter, 2021
Rodrigo Arenas-Carter is an arts worker, researcher, migrant, and pansexual. His performance…
Verónica Peña, 2021
Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator from Spain based in the United States…
Yara Colón, 2021
Yara Colón is an interdisciplinary voice artist based on ancestral Nonotuck land…
2020 Cohort
Amalia Oliva Rojas, 2020
Amalia Oliva Rojas is a Mexican poet, performer, and theater artivist based in Nueva York. Her work centers…
Andrea Ambam, 2020
Andrea Ambam is an NYC-based artist, actress, and playwright whose roots sprout from Cameroon. As a…
Anel Rakhimzhanova, 2020
Anel Rakhimzhanova researches neo-colonial surveillance infrastructure and algorithmic…
Bloom Osuala, 2020
Bloom is a multidisciplinary creative activist based in NYC who explores the relationship between systemic…
C. Tai Tai, 2020
C. Tai Tai (she/her) is a performance and installation artist based in Chicago, with roots in New York …
Courtney Frances Fallon, 2020
Courtney Frances Fallon is a writer, director, artist, and performer living in Brooklyn. Growing up in Buffalo…
Danyele Brown, 2020
Danyele is a Black biracial, transwoman set-maker from Virginia, working at the …
Elyla, 2020
Elyla is a cochónx barro-mestiza, a non-binary performance artist and activist. Their work often moves …
Fontaine Capel, 2020
Fontaine Capel is a New York City born-and-based interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and educator…
Gabriel Torres, 2020
Gabriel Torres is a Colombian, NYC-based, multidisciplinary artist and community organizer. Gabriel…
Irisdelia García, 2020
risdelia Garcia (she/they) is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist from The Bronx, NY. Her work centers …
Kristen Kelso, 2020
Kristen Kelso is a performer, translator, theatre director, musician and writer from Savannah, GA …
Lilach Orenstein, 2020
Lilach Orenstein is a choreographer, performer and producer. She is an Israeli immigrant with Yemeni-…
Michael Zalta, 2020
Michael is a queer Syrian-American Jewish, writer, researcher and playwright interested in the …
Monica Torres, 2020
eing an eco-feminist artist of Caribbean descent, Torres has been theorizing on the idea of jungle…
Nessa Norich, 2020
Nessa Norich (she/they) is a writer, director, producer, creative coach and performer who creates works …
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir, 2020
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir (she/they) is a performance artist, writer & producer. Her art collective…
Susana Plotts-Pineda, 2020
Susana Plotts-Pineda (she/her) is an artist, writer, and translator. Her work touches on cultural identity …
Valentina De Roca Fuerte, 2020
Valentina De Roca Fuerte is a sensitive poet, awakening visual artist, workshop facilitator, and …
Wazina Zondon, 2020
Centering her own identities as both an obstacle and a breakthrough, Wazina generates from the in-…
2019 Cohort
Ana María Agüero Jahannes, 2019
Ana María Agüero Jahannes is a space-maker, handicrafter, and acrobatic dancer based in Brooklyn…
Damariz Damken, 2019
Damariz Damken is an artivist from the Rio Grande Valley Frontera of South Texas. She graduated from…
Doménica García, 2019
Doménica García is an Ecuadorian video and performance artist based in NY. She obtained a BFA in Film…
Emily Waters, 2019
Emily Waters is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist grounded in a Black theater tradition that…
Grace Taylor Rae, 2019
Grace Taylor Rae is an artist who works in movement, language and form. She graduated from Williams…
Isadora Frost, 2019
Isadora Frost (Brasil, 1985) graduated from PUC São Paulo in 2009 with a degree in Performance…
janet e. dandridge, 2019
janet e. dandridge is an Interdisciplinary Artivist who encourages awareness and …
Julha Franz, 2019
Coming from a place of sexual and gender liberation, Julha Franz (Brazil, 1993) pushes boundaries with her…
Kristel Baldoz, 2019
Kristel Baldoz (she/her) is a Filipina-American artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape…
KT Pe Benito, 2019
Faustina KT Pe Benito is a nonbinary queer Filipinx, a Filipino man, and a white woman. They earned a BFA…
Mauricio “Cio” Alexander, 2019
Mauricio Alexander is a first-generation bilingual artist of Latin American and East European roots…
monte marin, 2019
stefa marin alarcon is a vocalist, composer and multi-media performance artist born and raised …
Natacha Voliakovsky, 2019
Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, 1988) is a political performance artist, feminist, and activist who has…
Oceana James, 2019
Oceana James (she/her) is a St. Croix-born interdisciplinary artist. Her work is an examination/a …
Rae De Vine, 2019
Rae (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker who engages with the arts…
Rebecca Fitton, 2019
Rebecca Fitton (she/they) is from many places. She cultivates community through movement…
Sahar Sepahdari-Dalai, 2019
Sahar Sepahdari-Dalai is an Iranian American video and performance artist. Healing and language…
Shenny de Los Angeles, 2019
Shenny de Los Angeles is a Dominican-American performance artist. Her work focuses on healing…
2018 Cohort
Alejandro Chellet, 2018
Alejandro Chellet is a multidisciplinary artist and social practitioner in cultural and…
Ama BE, 2018
Ama BE (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring dimensions of embodiment…
Angela Veronica Wong, 2018
Angela Veronica Wong is a poet, writer, artist, and educator based in NYC. She is the author of elsa: an…
Arian Nakhaie, 2018
Fihi Ma Fihi’s (“FMF”) founder Arian Nakhaie has 15+ years in a variety of roles, industries and countries…
C. Meranda Flachs-Surmanek, 2018
C. Meranda Flachs-Surmanek (they/them) is an artist and urban planner. Meranda is driven to …
Emilio Martínez Poppe, 2018
Emilio Martínez Poppe is an artist working across installation, performance, participatory projects…
Janine Renee Cunningham, 2018
Brooklyn based organizer and theater-maker, Janine Renee Cunningham has presented work…
Mercy Carpenter, 2018
Mercy Viola is a Black and Native nonbinary femme raised in Brooklyn, New York. They are passionate …
Monica Furman, 2018
Monica Furman is a multi-hyphenate artist and conflict mediator. She was raised in Brooklyn by her Jew-ish …
Natalie Cook, 2018
Natalie Cook is a filmmaker, poet, and theater-maker. Natalie’s poetry film, “Backwards God,” received the…
Rad Pereira, 2018
Rad is a two-spirit Afro-Indigenous, Jewish, Brazilian (im)migrant artist currently based in Lenapehoking …
Régine Romain, 2018
Régine Romain is a Haitian-American artist, educator, visual anthropologist and race equity …
Rina Espiritu, 2018
A local of Queens Village, NY with a US greencard and Pilipino passport. This multidisciplinary artist has…
Salome Egas, 2018
Salome is proudly Ecuadorian, an interdisciplinary artist, educator and bilingual children’s book author …
Sara Kostic, 2018
Sara Kostic (born in 1990 in Belgrade), received an M.A. in Architecture Design from Belgrade…
2017 Cohort
Ana Laura Ramírez Ramos, 2017
Ana Laura is a Mexican artivist and cabaret performer who enjoys making humor. Based in Mexico …
Anooj Bhandari
Anooj Bhandari (he/him) is an artist who attempts to build real-life moments that feel like …
Arantxa Araujo, 2017 & 2022 Virtual
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially…
Clarivel Ruiz, 2017
We, the daughter from the land called Kiskeya Ayiti (aka Hispaniola aka Dominican Republic and Haiti)…
David Sierra, 2017
David Sierra is an artist, scholar, and writer practicing and researching performance and production in…
Effie Nkrumah, 2017
Effie Nkrumah is an interdisciplinary artist and poet of Ghanaian descent brought up in Sydney, Australia…
Elena Rose Light, 2017
Elena Rose Light (they/she) is a choreographer, performer, and cultural worker originally from …
Girino (LUA), 2017
Girino (aka Lua) is a Brazilian video & movement artist and scholar based in Brooklyn, and current PhD …
GOODW.Y.N. (Nicole Goodwin), 2017
Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. is the author of Warcries, and the poetic sequel Warcrimes as well as…
Julia Patinella, 2017
Julia Patinella (she/her) is a multilingual singer and songwriter currently residing in Brooklyn, NY…
Linus Ignatius, 2017
Linus Ignatius is a queer Armenian-American filmmaker and a proud third culture kid. Born to journalist…
Mariam Bazeed, 2017
An Egyptian immigrant living in Brooklyn, Mariam Bazeed is a performance artist and alliteration-…
rexylafemme, 2017
rexylafemme (rex renée leonowicz) is a visual + performing artist, writer, and healer born and raised in …
Rosary Solimanto, 2017
Activist artist Rosary Solimanto, explores oppression and societal stigmas living with multiple…
Shola Cole, 2017 & 2024 Virtual
Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny (they/themme & she/hers) is a New York based performance artist and Afro-Caribbean/UK born immigrant…
Sol Cabrini, 2017
Sol Cabrini de la Ciudad is a Chicago trans creator based in NYC. Sol has created and collaborated in…
Troizel Carr, 2017
An artist, advocate, and academic, Troizel Carr is black + alive and that means more than these words can …
2016 Cohort
Bex Kwan, 2016
Bex Kwan is a multimedia artist, organizer, social worker, and athlete. They are a core trainer with the…
Chelsea Gregory, 2016
Chelsea Gregory is a dance theater artist, cultural organizer and facilitator who weaves embodied…
Estrellx Supernova, 2016
Estrellx/EHQS embodies a they/them energetics and straddles the roles of choreographer, performer, curator…
Francheska Alcántara, 2016
Francheska is a multidisciplinary artist hailing from The Bronx who looks at domestic life and signifiers…
Gethsemane Herron-Coward, 2016
Gethsemane Herron-Coward is a poet/playwright from Washington, D.C. She has developed work with …
Jennif(f)er Tamayo, 2016
Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a queer, migrant, formerly undocumented poet, essayist, and performer …
Julia Cavagna, 2016
Julia Cavagna is an Argentinian teacher, actress and director based in the United States. She studied…
Kelsey Pyro, 2016
Kelsey Pyro is a St. Paul and Minneapolis-grown/Brooklyn-based producer, singer/songwriter, poet…
Lio Mehiel, 2016
Lio Mehiel (they/them) is a Puerto Rican and Greek non-binary, trans masculine writer, actor, and artist…
Paul Bedard, 2016
Paul Bedard EmergeNYC (2016) Paul Bedard is a Brooklyn-based theater director. He is an...
Rania Manganaro, 2016
RANIA SALEM MANGANARO is a New York City based actor, artist, activist, and proud member of Actors Equity…
Sophia Mak, 2016
Sophia Mak is a Brooklyn based, multi-disciplinary artist and educator. They have had the…
Timothy DuWhite, 2016
Ungrateful Black Artist (UGBA – ‘oog ba’) (pronoun inclusive) is a queer poet, rapper, playwright, actor, and…
Vanessa Cuervo, 2016
Born in Bogotá Colombia, Vanessa is a dancer, curator & cultural producer exploring the connections between…
2015 Cohort
Andre Dimapilis, 2015
Andre Ignacio Dimapilis (he/him) is a Filipinx-American culture-bearing performance artist, sound …
Anthonywash.Rosado, 2015
Anthonywash.Rosado is a queer Afro-Boricua storytraveler and Nuyorican cultural curator. As of …
Ashley Brockington, 2015
Ashley Brockington’s (she/her) New York City chapter started in 2001. Her first theater family was Circus …
Daniel Giordano, 2015
Daniel Giordano (he/him) was born in 1988. He lives and works in Newburgh, NY. Giordano earned …
Edgar Javier Ulloa Luján, 2015
Édgar J. Ulloa Luján is a performance artist and poet from Ciudad Juárez, México. He founded a pioneer …
Gabriela Espinosa, 2015
Gabriela es creadora interdisciplinaria e intérprete de las artes escénicas, y ejerce como …
Helen Gutowski, 2015
Helen Gutowski is a performing artist, writer, and activist working in the experimental theater, post …
Joyce Joseph, 2015
Joyce LeeAnn Joseph is a certified archivist and an interdisciplinary artist whose work aims to redefine…
Mare Berger, 2015
Mare has been playing the piano for 34 years and writing music for a loooong time too. Mare believes in …
Nefertiti Asanti, 2015
Nefertiti Asanti (they/she) is a poet from the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from …
Omolara Mccallister, 2015
Ọmọlará Williams McCallister (pronouns: o, love, beloved) is a dynamic creator who shows up in…
ray ferreira, 2015
ray ferreira w h e n a m i a performer of sorts aka multidisciplinary artist aka polymath. She stays playin …
Sriya Sarkar, 2015
Sriya Sarkar is a digital media producer, comedian, and filmmaker working at the intersection of …
Stephano Espinoza, 2015
Stephano is an artist and educator from Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is the co-founder and director of TrueQué…
2014 Cohort
Alicia Raquel Morales, 2014
Alicia Raquel Morales is a dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. Their aesthetic is quirky…
Anazé Izquierdo, 2014
Anazé Izquierdo (Ana Carolina Izquierdo) : is a peruvian genderqueer brooklyn based visual…
Azure D. Osborne-Lee, 2014
Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is a multi-award-winning Black queer & trans theatre maker from south…
Camilo Godoy, 2014
Camilo Godoy is an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United …
Emma Alabaster, 2014
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Emma Alabaster works as a musician, composer, cultural organizer…
Kiyan Williams, 2014
Kiyan Williams (they/them) is a visual artist based in New York City. Working fluidly across sculpture…
Lolo Haha, 2014
Lolo Haha (he/him) is an organizational consultant, conflict mediator, and communication …
Magnus Elias Rosengarten, 2014
Magnus (he/him) is particularly interested in the relationship between moving image, sound and…
Manuel Molina Martagon, 2014
Manuel Molina Martagón is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance, video and social…
Maxine Montilus, 2014
Maxine Montilus is a native of Brooklyn, New York and a first-generation Haitian-American…
Melanie Greene, 2014
Melanie Greene is a dance artist, writer, and podcast host. She is no stranger to swirling on the edge of …
nyx zierhut, 2014
nyx zierhut is a mixed black tenderqueer performer, poet, healer, organizer, and educator living in …
Renee Floresca, 2014
Originally from Hercules– East Bay Area, Renee is a Filipina actor, educator & writer based in …
Stevie Walker-Webb, 2014
Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie award winning Director, Playwright, and Cultural Worker who believes …
Taja Lindley, 2014
Taja Lindley (she/her) is a spirit-led interdisciplinary generative artist creating dynamic and iterative…
Vaseah Dupree, 2014
Vaseah Dupree is a spoken word artist and creative writer who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn during…
2013 Cohort
Adriana Nordin Manan, 2013
Adriana Nordin Manan is a Malaysian translator working between the English, Malay, and Spanish …
Alex Rodabaugh, 2013
Alex Rodabaugh creates performances within the lineage of dance and choreography. Alex’s …
Aya Aziz, 2013
Aya Aziz is a songwriter and performance artist based between New York and Beirut, Lebanon. Aya…
Giseli Vasconcelos, 2013
Giseli is a cultural worker and interdisciplinary artist from Brazil based in US. She has been …
Guy Yedwab, 2013
Guy Yedwab ran a small theater company when the 2008 financial crisis propelled him into …
Jeca Rodríguez-Colón, 2013
Jeca Rodríguez Colón (she/her) is a Puerto Rican multi-disciplinary artist and a scholar living in New York …
Jennifer Celestin, 2013
Jennifer Celestin is a writer, performer, and facilitator from Brooklyn, NY. She received her B.A…
Marta Jovanovic, 2013
Marta Jovanović (b. 1978, Belgrade, Serbia) constructs scenarios in which she interrogates politics…
Mette Loulou von Kohl, 2013
Mette Loulou was born from the orange at the center before the new world came. She is a performer …
Mon Iker, 2013
Mon Iker is an interdisciplinary artist devoted to elevating feminist, social, and environmental justice …
Rory Golden, 2013
Rory Golden creates multi-layered figurative work that deals in a clever and sometimes startling way …
Sabina Ibarrola, 2013
Sabina is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, activist, and troublemaker: a dancer and…
Sita Frederick, 2013
Sita Frederick is a choreographer, performer, arts administrator and teacher based in New York City…
Zachary Wager Scholl, 2013
Zachary Wager Scholl is an educator, artist and cultural worker. He’s a member of The Aftselakhis …
2012 Cohort
Alexandra Blissett, 2012
Alexandra Lauren Prosper Blissett enjoys distilling the sordidly splendid spirits of stovetops and verandas …
Anoushka Ratnarajah, 2012
Anoushka Ratnarajah (she/her) is a queer bi-racial woman, and an artivist, writer and performer…
benjamin lundberg torres sánchez, 2012
benjamin lundberg torres sánchez (b. 1987, Bogotá) (they/them/elle) uses their art to transform…
Carlos Monroy, 2012
An immigrant in São Paulo, Brazil, Carlos Monroy (Bogotá, 1984) is a Colombian visual and performance …
Chris Tyler, 2012
Chris is a Los Angeles-based playwright and performing artist examining the intersections of…
Denae Hannah, 2012
Denae Hannah, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, is a performance artist, social entrepreneur, and Artistic…
Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, 2012
I am inspired to create art work based on the familiar objects that I view through my daily travels. I …
Dominic Cinnamon Bradley, 2012
Raised in the crunk-era “Dirty South,” Dominic Cinnamon Bradley (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based…
Getenesh Berhe, 2012
Getenesh Berhe is an Eritrean-Canadian actor and performance artist. Upon completion of training …
Jesse Phillips-Fein, 2012
Jesse Phillips-Fein grew up dancing at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange in the Young People’s Performance…
Kirya Traber, 2012
Kirya Traber is a nationally awarded playwright, actress, and cultural worker. She is the lead Community…
Kyla Searle, 2012
Kyla Searle (she/her) is an artist, producer and activist. Kyla seeks out inquiry and intersection, inspired…
Marcelitte Failla, 2012
Marcelitte Failla is a Black and biracial educator, researcher, and scholar of African heritage religions …
Polina Porras Sibolovoba, 2012
Polina Porras Sivolobova is a Russian-Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work …
Rebecca Nagle, 2012
Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning advocate, writer, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. As the host …
Sacred Walker, 2012
Sacred Walker is a master facilitator and the CEO and Lead Holistic Trainer of Kuumba Health LLC…
Samantha Galarza, 2012
Samantha Galarza (she/her/ella) is a queer, Puerto Rican, SAG-AFTRA actress, writer, performance…
Santiago Venegas Duque, 2012
Santiago Venegas Duque is a Colombian fashion designer and performance artist, currently …
Sara Lyons, 2012
Sara Lyons is a director who seeks to explode form/politic in new, critically embodied theatre and …
2011 Cohort
Carolina Tapias Guzmán, 2011
Carolina is a theatre teaching artist and cultural worker whose practice of theater and performance…
Jadele McPherson, 2011
Jadele McPherson is an artist-scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of sound and …
Katrina De Wees, 2011
Katrina De Wees is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator and curator specializing…
Koby, 2011
Koby (she/they) is an artist, writer and social practice facilitator dedicated to dialogical arts …
Lily Mengesha, 2011
Lily is a director, dramaturg and assistant professor of race and performance in the Department…
Liz Andrews, 2011
Liz Andrews is an artist, curator, and scholar based in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a BA from Wesleyan …
Maria Schirmer, 2011
Maria Schirmer is a theater artist, writer and arts educator. She has received a Gallatin Global Human …
Mary Notari, 2011
I am a multidisciplinary theater artist, cultural activist, and dork. I firmly believe in live art and …
Noelle Ghoussaini, 2011
Noelle Ghoussaini creates expansive and genre-defying theatrical experience exploring the politics …
Patricia Faolli, 2011
The Brazilian artist Patrícia Faolli (she/her) received a Bachelor’s Degree in Performance Art …
Raquel Mavecq, 2011
Raquel Mavecq graduated in Comunicação e Artes do Corpo at PUC-SP. Through dance …
Sahar Sajadieh, 2011
Sahar Sajadieh is a digital performance/media artivist (artist+activist) and scholar …
Shelah Marie, 2011
With her authentic, rebellious and playful personality and her @curvycurlyconscious movement…
Stephen Graf, 2011
After many years in the NYC theatre scene, Stephen began pursuing doctoral studies in 2017 at the …
Zavé Martohardjono, 2011
Zavé Martohardjono is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist born in Montréal, Canada. Their artistic …
2010 Cohort
Aimée Lutkin, 2010
Aimée works as a writer in New York, and performed with Magnet sketch team Chico Splits and is now on …
Ariel Speedwagon, 2010
Ariel Speedwagon’s work has been seen extensively on Broadway, Lafayette, Fulton, Chrystie, Avenue …
Clark Stoeckley, 2010
Clark Stoeckley is an interdisciplinary artist and activist working in photography, drawing, mural…
Claudia Sofía Garriga López, 2010
Claudia Sofía Garriga-López is an Assistant Professor of Queer and Trans Latinx Studies in the …
Heather Morowitz, 2010
For the last ten years, Heather Morowitz has worked as a web and traditional based creative …
Jonathan McCrory, 2010
Jonathan McCrory (he/him) is an Obie Award-winning, Harlem-based artist who has served as Executive …
Julián Mesri, 2010
Julián Mesri is a New York-based Argentinean-American writer and composer who makes multilingual …
Kira Neel, 2010
Kira Neel is a New York City based performer, educator, and radio journalist. She is a recipient of the…
Oraison Larmon, 2010
Oraison H. Larmon (they/them) is a doctoral student in the Department of Information Studies at the …
Ricardo Gamboa, 2010
Ricardo Gamboa (They/ Them/ Theirs) is an artist, activist and academic. Ricardo is currently …
2009 Cohort
Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, 2009
Amelia (she/they) creates curriculum and performances influenced by decoloniality and Postmigranten…
Dylan Levers, 2009
Dylan Stephen Levers is an NYC-based filmmaker. His short film “this is a film about tom and maddy.” …
Flora Mendoza, 2009
Flora Mendoza, SAG-AFTRA, is a mezzo-soprano and voice actor. Graduating with distinction from …
Juju Angeles, 2009
Occupying Ohlone Territory (Oakland, CA), Juju is mothering, homeschooling, working with…
Karina Claudio-Betancourt, 2009
Karina Claudio Betancourt is a Program Officer with the Open Society Foundations, where she …
Katharine Elkington, 2009
Katharine Lucić (she/her) is a skilled marketer with passion for building inclusive products and diverse…
Liliana Padilla, 2009
Liliana Padilla makes plays about sex, intersectional communities, and what it means to heal in a violent …
Luisina Quarleri, 2009
Luisina is an actress, singer and dancer originally from Argentina. She’s performed internationally…
Marcela Barrientos, 2009
Marcela Barrientos is a proud immigrant born in Honduras and raised in New York City. She grew …
Megan Paradis Hanley, 2009
Megan Paradis Hanley has worked in theater in New York and internationally for the past ten …
Mieke D, 2009
MIEKE D (she/they) is a mixed-race genderqueer femme of Asian and European descent. She is an …
NIC Kay, 2009
NIC Kay is from the Bronx, NY. They make performances and organize performative spaces with an un-…
Zoe Lukov, 2009
Curator, Emmy-nominated producer, and writer Zoe Lukov develops non-traditional, experimental …
2008 Inaugural Cohort
Aisha Jordan, 2008
Aisha Jordan is an Actor, Writer, and Producer in new media with a B.A. from The New School and M.A…
Arun Storrs, 2008
Arun was five years old. She was cast as Wendy in her kindergarten’s production of Peter Pan and got to…
Ashley Marinaccio, 2008
Ash Marinaccio (she/her) iscurrently a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY …
Beatrice Glow, 2008
Beatrice Glow (she/her) is an interdisciplinary and multisensory artist working in service of public …
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 2008
Creator, showrunner, writet, and executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins debuts as TV creator of …
Clare Barron, 2008
Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her plays include …
Fernanda Coppel, 2008
Fernanda Coppel (she/her) is a Mexican/American playwright and screenwriter. Her play King Liz …
Frantz Jerome, 2008
An inaugural EMERGENYC cohort (2008) and 2050 Legacy ensemble member, Frantz Jerome …
José Pérez IV, 2008
JOSÉ PÉREZ IV (he/him) is a fight choreographer, playwright, and actor. He is currently the Resident …
Kim Fischer, 2008
Kim is an actor based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Oakland, California, he’s been a lifelong …
Leslie Galán Guyton, 2008
Leslie Galán Guyton is a movement director and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She will make all …
