Denise Kumani Gantt makes work that inhabits the body before it lives on the page or stage. A poet, playwright, digital storyteller, and interdisciplinary performance artist rooted in the African Diaspora and Yoruba tradition, she has spent over thirty years creating theater that holds contradiction--giving full voice to the stories a word too often asks Black women to simplify, silence, or surrender. Her plays have been produced at Baltimore Theatre Project, Artscape, the New York Drama… more