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I recently served as co-guest editor on Volume 2, Issue 2 of "The Journal of Consent Based Performance". Check out this important work! Volume 2, Issue 2 Notes From the Field: Identity, Inclusion, Intimacy Choreography, and Cultural Competence

Emmy-winning filmmaker speaks at SUNY Oswego, Jordan DeLucia, The Palladium-Times

Emmy Award-winning producer, director and writer Rita Coburn, right, spoke Tuesday evening at SUNY Oswego. Coburn co-produced the 2016 documentary “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” detailing the life and legacy of the famed American writer, activist and actress. With Coburn is SUNY Oswego Professor Mya Brown.

In The News

"The play opens fittingly with Miss Pat, a stewardess on the Celebrity Slave Ship. With a frenetic gaiety, Miss Pat, played by Mya Brown, reminds her passengers to mind the "fasten-shackles" signs." 'Colored Museum' is still meaningful, Keiko Morris, Seattle Times

"Director Brown states, '..Lynn Nottage's work in Sweat is the epitome of what August Wilson asserts in his speech, The Ground on Which I Stand, 'We can answer the high standards of world-class art,' I am honored to direct this piece at UNCG and hopefully inspire the audience to extend compassion and grace to their fellow human beings." Sweat: Powerful Realism, Humor, and Heart on the Sprinkle Theatre StageYes! Weekly

“With his newfound fame, Duke is using his voice to advocate for inclusion and gender equity,” Brown said." Marvel Actor Gives Keynote Speech, Ben Grieco, The Oswegonian

I am so excited to direct one of my favorite plays at one of my favorite theatres!!! Check out my interview here.

"Director Mya Brown said she is excited to share this play because she believes it offers a humanizing view of King.

“We’re seeing him through a lens that, historically, the nation has not provided for us,” Brown said. “It humanizes him and makes him more relatable. I think that’s important because if we can see ourselves in him, then we can also see ourselves doing the kind of great acts that he was able to do.” WVPT presents ‘The Mountaintop’, which imagines leader’s last night, Alise Chaffins, Dominion Post

Podcasts

"West Virginia Public Theatre's first episode of Radio Theatre for Our Time, is a dramatized reading of “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King Jr. during a 1963 incarceration in a Birmingham city jail. The script was conceived and adapted by Mya Brown, assistant professor of theatre at UNC Greensboro, who also directed the ensemble of actors."

"West Virginia Public Theatre's Radio Theatre for Our Time is back with another impactful piece-Speaking to My Black Daughter About the Black Lives Matter Protests, I Realize How Much She Already Understood by Sharisse Tracey. Leading this year's Radio Theatre For Our Time project is Mya Brown."

"Who knows and understands the needs of your students better than your own students? In this episode, Mya Brown, an Assistant Professor of Theatre at SUNY-Oswego, joins us to discuss how our students can build open educational resources that take advantage of the unique insights our students have about what novices need to learn to be successful in our courses and disciplines."

"Brooke and Donna welcome Mya Brown to this weeks episode. Mya is a Professor of Theatre at UNC Greensboro and mother of two amazing young men. Listen to learn more about Mya and the amazing things she's doing."