Applying Theatre pt. 2
WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants talks with Applied Theatre educator, Ashleigh Bragg about the role of storytelling, embodying nature, health education, and BIPOC & LGBTQ youth representation as liberation within schools.
Ashleigh Estelle Bragg is originally from the West Coast, grew up in Southern California and later in Portland, Oregon where her family of origin currently resides. Ashleigh is an actor-teacher living in New York City for CUNY Creative Arts Team where she serves black and brown students in low income communities at four different high schools in both the Bronx and Brooklyn. She was the MA Graduate Apprenticeship for Diversity in Applied Theatre with the College Adult Program with the Creative Arts Team in New York City.
Ashleigh has a BS in Theatre Performance from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, and received an acting apprenticeship with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for three seasons. She was classically trained in Acting and Theatre Performance at the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts School in Santa Maria, California. Through Afrocentric styles of playwriting, storytelling and eco-leadership, she has collaborated with classroom teachers and students with the goal of improving community through racial justice, diversity, inclusion and equity training. She has facilitated students in middle school, high school, college, English Language Learners, LGBTQ communities, rural areas, immigrant populations, and challenging populations in correctional facilities such as Rikers Island with inmates.
She believes the use of Applied Theatre will continue to aid in liberation if we ground our young people in celebrating our roots and where we come from. Through daily actions of compassion and a clear vision of who we are and we are going, we become less fearful of being free.
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