LySaundra Janeé
EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)
LySaundra Janeé (she/her) is a multidisciplinary storyteller and musician. Her artistic practice leverages themes of Black feminism, magical realism, and African spirituality to amplify the stories of historically excluded and underrepresented women and femmes. Current Works: new musicals ZAHRAH and COMBAHEE, short film HOLLY (New York Screenwriting Award Finalist), and plays OBSIDIAN V. GHOSTS and FIRST WIFE. Credits: music supervisor for DATING DAZE (Afrikana Independent Film Festival, Kansas City Underground Film Festival), and writer for WE, THE FEMINISTS.
She was a 2024 and 2021 Anaphora Arts Residency Fellow and a 2021 Center for Cultural Power Artistic Fellow for the We, As Ourselves national narrative campaign. Her literary work can be found in the New York Writers Coalition anthology Common Unity, midnight & indigo, The New Territory Magazine, and more. LySaundra graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a BA in Sociology and a Multicultural Studies certificate.