Alicia Payne
Alicia Payne is a professional actor and published writer whose credits encompass theatre, film, television and radio. She’s also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African American Music. Her professional memberships include ACTRA, CAEA, Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Guild of Canada. As a professional simulator, she provides feedback to learners in corporate settings through PlaysthatWork. As an artist educator, she...
Anne Pedersen
During her life, Anne Pedersen has been: a film editor; camerawoman; documentary film producer and writer; journalist; and development executive for a major Hollywood studio. She is also the author of several books for children and young adults, one of which, Kidding Around Washington, D.C., won the Benjamin Franklin Award of Publishers Marketing Association in 1990. Presently, she is working on a collection of short fiction (for...
Marsha Pincus
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus is a post mid-life, post-career woman writing for her life. After more than three decades of teaching in a public high school and at the University of Pennsylvania, Marsha retired in 2011 to write full time. A Carnegie Fellow and Philadelphia Teacher of the Year in 1989 and 2005, she’s published essays on teaching in several anthologies. Four of Marsha’s playwriting students had their plays produced...
Deborah Polikoff
Deborah Polikoff played a piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony as a teenager, was awarded the Radcliffe Poetry Prize in her twenties, and co-founded a community arts center in Silver City, NM, in her thirties. In her forties, she became Eve Kodiak – mother, practitioner specializing in developmental movement and personal growth, writer and composer for children, and improvisational recording artist with cellist David...
Tina Pocha
Born and raised in Bombay, India, to a Hindu mother and a Zoroastrian father, Tina Pocha is the quintessential outsider—neither of nor from any single place or culture, not mainstream nor maverick, ever feeling her way around people and situations that seem, at once, vaguely (impalpably) familiar yet never quite home. “Pick one!” they said, “You can’t be both.” Not grown up and child. Not scientist and artist. Not tender and...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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