My Story, Our History: Artistic Workshop with Roundabout Theatre Co.

My Story, Our History is an introduction to theatre through storytelling, writing, and design. Participants will journal, create collages, write poetry or monologues, and create portraits. The workshops will explore themes of identity, home, neighborhood, and history.

Roundabout Teaching Artists curated a series of artistic workshops designed to spark the creative process through storytelling, ensemble building, and community connections. Using Roundabout’s Theatrical Teaching Framework, a pedagogical lens developed by Roundabout that centers learners as artists, leverages their skills as a theatre maker, andcelebrates the process of artistic creation, program participants will explore the world of plays to begin to create their own original piece of community theatre.

In these inter-generational workshops, participants will collaborate to create their own story, essay, monologue, play, song, poem, speech, and/or theatrical performance which will culminate in a communal sharing.

Artist-in-Residence with Roundabout Theatre Company Teaching Artists:

Kadeem A. Harris and Leah Reddy.

KADEEM ALI HARRIS (he/him) is an actor/director/producer from the

Bronx, New York. He was most recently seen at Omari in PIPELINE at the

Cleveland Playhouse. Kadeem has acted regionally at the American

Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, and Ensemble Theatre

Cincinnati. Kadeem is a recent graduate of the American Conservatory

Theater's MFA program in Acting as well as the Tisch School of the Arts for

Drama. He produced the 2016 Bay Area Artist Festival with the premiere of

Obie Award winner Aleshea Harris’ play CRACK. RUMBLE. FLY. Kadeem is

currently working on reinstating his devised piece BLACK MASCULINITY

and his one person show LEGACY about the life and journey of his father

and the foster care system. Kadeem is a committed teaching artist who has

taught in New York City, Cincinnati, and the Bay Area and received the Bratt

Family Diversity Scholarship and the Litfin Scholarship. You can see him on

the upcoming Amazon Prime series “Harlem” starring Megan Good.

LEAH REDDY (she/her) Leah Reddy is a director, dramaturg, and

multimedia storyteller with roots on the westside of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Favorite directing credits include Maria Irene Fornes’s What of the Night

and many conservatory showcases. An Accredited Financial Counselor, her

research focuses on how drama-based pedagogies can make financial

literacy more engaging to students, particularly future artists. As a

teaching artist, her work is focused on community building through the

creative process. A recipient of the 2023 SU-CASA grant from LMCC, she

was the artist-in-residence at the Gaylord White Older Adult Center. She is

a mentor with the Arthur Miller Foundation.

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