The Artists Behind
Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop
Community Care
BRTW’s team remain actively involved in 2 circles of community care. First, we use the arts as a vehicle to disrupt oppressive forces that marginalize members of our Black community. Second, we prioritize a justice-centered work environment that is loving, safe, critically engaging, creative, and free.
Forward Looking
BRTW is poised for growth, and we owe it to our artists and our community to continually improve our path forward. This absolutely includes our artistic and programming efforts, but it also includes our advocacy work and the ways in which justice makes itself known in our practices. BRTW’s mission demands that we not only engage with histories of oppression but look forward to co-create just, sustainable futures.
For Us. By Us.
BRTW’s work centers Black identities and experiences, and our operations center Black artists. We are proud to offer stipends to all Black artists who share their time and talent with us, and we have a vision to offer competitive wages, benefits, and work culture when we have the capacity to do so.
Co-Artistic Producers
The co-artistic producers determine and execute BRTW’s operational and artistic vision.
H. Harvey
Co-Founding Co-Artistic Producer
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HH is a Brooklyn-based writer/director/producer who specializes in nontraditional storytelling for stage, audio, and screen. She co-founded Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop in 2015 and currently serves as Co-Artistic Producer with Mieko Gavia and Tim Craig. She co-wrote AFTERSWARM (2018) with Mieko Gavia through a residency with The Tank. AFTERSWARM premiered at JACK in Brooklyn in 2019. She co-wrote and co-directed REVOLUTION (2015) with Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop, which has toured the Northeast and appeared at HERE Arts Center and JACK. She also co-developed FRUIT (2016) with BRTW, which appeared at several colleges, universities, and community spaces. She wrote the multi-episode series THE GREEN ZONE (2019-) for BRTW with support from WBAI and Black and Latino Film Coalition and the audio drama, BANDANA COUNTRY (2020) for BRTW. Recent directing credits include Shakespeare’s HAMLET (2021) and RITA IS THE GOAT by Melanie Maria Goodreux (2020) at The Foundry in the Berkshires, BARS by Pravin Wilkins (2020) for Four Walls Theater, FLUID (2018) by Sheyenne Javonne Brown for CPT at the Schomburg, and RUINS (2018) by Hope Rehak for the Araca Project at The American Theatre of Actors. And when she’s not staying TF inside, she’s walking the cutest dog this side of the Hudson River.
Mieko Gavia
Co-Artistic Producer
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Mieko is a writer, actress, model and producer. Her acting credits include Joan of Arc in La Pucelle, Lou Salome in Lou at the Paradise Factory, the webseries Quarter Century (Imani), Afterswarm at JACK (Gigi), Gardener of Stars at Detroit’s Light Box (Gardener), The Reenactors at Abrams Arts Center (Actress 2), and Creative Time’s installations: Private Moment (Alice) and The Privilege of Escape (Dr. Crenshaw). Mieko’s play Dog has been performed at the Gene Frankel Theatre, her play Afterswarm (co-written with Heather Harvey) has been performed at JACK, and her non-theatrical writing has been featured in Bustle, Buzzfeed, Oxygen, and Efniks.
Tim Craig
Co-Artistic Producer
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Tim is a Brooklyn-based writer, actor, producer, and visual artist. He joined Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop in Fall 2019.
Admin + Production Team
Haydée Souffrant
Programs + Operations Adviser
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Dena Igusti
Line Producer
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Dena Igusti is a queer non binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick and a Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021, and I NEED THIS TO NOT SWALLOW ME ALIVE (Gingerbug Press, 2021). They are the founder of Dearest Mearest and SEAM. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, and several other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Players Theatre (SHARUM, 2019), Prelude Festival (Cut Woman, 2020), Center At West Park (CON DOUGH, 2021), The Tank (First Sight 2021 at LimeFest), and several other venues internationally. They are a 2022 Sundress Arts Resident, 2022 Best of the Net Nominee, 2021 Baldwin For The Arts Resident, 2021 Hook Arts Media Digital Connections Fellow, 2021 Rogue Theater Festival Playwright-in-Residence, 2021 City Artist Corps, 2021 Stories Award Finalist, 2021 LMCC Governor’s Island Resident, 2021 Broadway For Racial Justice Inaugural Casting Directive Fellow, 2020 Seventh Wave Editorial Resident, 2020 Ars Nova Emerging Leaders Fellow, 2020 Spotify Sound Up cohort member, 2019 Player’s Theatre Resident Playwright, and 2018 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador. They are a Converse All Stars Artist and UN #TOGETHERBAND Global Ambassador.
Members Emeritus
BRTW has benefited from the generosity, talent, and support of many people. While we wish we could list them all here, we can single out some of the artists who helped BRTW along in the early years.
Kevin Green
Co-Founder + Producing Ensemble Member
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Jovan Davis
Producing Ensemble Member
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Sheyenne Javonne Brown
Ensemble Member
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