D. Feraiya Williams - NIAAS Core Group Member
D. Feraiya Williams is the founder of Idjeli Theater Works (ITW), a Boston-based company devoted to theater-based radical confrontation of internalized oppression. ITW uses theater as a method of radical healing. By acting and dramatizing our day-to-day struggle in the community our minds begin to shape stronger ideas against oppression, especially the oppression that we have internalized. ITW presents theater-based tools, culture-based development as the beginning of effective personal & social change.
Mrs. Williams studied at Berklee College of Music and the Moscow Theatre Art School, with a degree in Theatre Studies from Emerson College and an MFA from the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University. She has several regional and international acting credits and also made her Broadway debut in "The Lion King”.
Also serving as the Artistic Director at Project Hip Hop, Farai brings her passion daily to a non-profit organization that engages and develops young people as artists and organizers to resist injustice, build power and produce positive youth culture.
Farai is a core collective member of TOPLAB (Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory) New England, which utilizes the techniques of Augusto Boals' Theatre of the Oppressed.
She has served as a Performance Art Teacher, an Urban Improv Teaching Artist, Adjunct Professor of Performing Arts at Roxbury Community College and a Teaching Artist at Lesley University and Emerson College.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617.671.6248
Website: www.idjeli.com
D. Feraiya Williams is the founder of Idjeli Theater Works (ITW), a Boston-based company devoted to theater-based radical confrontation of internalized oppression. ITW uses theater as a method of radical healing. By acting and dramatizing our day-to-day struggle in the community our minds begin to shape stronger ideas against oppression, especially the oppression that we have internalized. ITW presents theater-based tools, culture-based development as the beginning of effective personal & social change.
Mrs. Williams studied at Berklee College of Music and the Moscow Theatre Art School, with a degree in Theatre Studies from Emerson College and an MFA from the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University. She has several regional and international acting credits and also made her Broadway debut in "The Lion King”.
Also serving as the Artistic Director at Project Hip Hop, Farai brings her passion daily to a non-profit organization that engages and develops young people as artists and organizers to resist injustice, build power and produce positive youth culture.
Farai is a core collective member of TOPLAB (Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory) New England, which utilizes the techniques of Augusto Boals' Theatre of the Oppressed.
She has served as a Performance Art Teacher, an Urban Improv Teaching Artist, Adjunct Professor of Performing Arts at Roxbury Community College and a Teaching Artist at Lesley University and Emerson College.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617.671.6248
Website: www.idjeli.com