![]() Muñiz is a co-founder of Legacy: A Black Queer Production Collective, a production company focused on providing resources to artists systematically excluded from - and exploited by - media and the arts. Ashton’s goal through life and artistic work is to continue to instill joy into the world by embracing the realities of the present. Tamara co-starred alongside fellow cast-mates Carlie Guevara, Amanda and Ivana Black in the critically acclaimed, award-winning feature film The Garden Left Behind directed by Flavio Alves, written by John Rotondo, produced by Roy Wol and she continues to reinvent the way we view Trans/Gender non-conforming Non Binary Performers.ĪSHTON MUÑIZ (Producer) (They/He) is a New York-based queer actor, performance artist, filmmaker and producer. Tamara is a classically trained performer by way of Harlem School of The Arts, she is passionate about seeing change in her community and Globally a former Human Rights Campaign youth ambassador, advocating for the basic human rights of Inner-city youth throughout the greater New York and Tri-State area for much of her younger life. Her theatrical start was being featured as part of The New York Times critics’ pick Street Children!, choreographed by Tamara. ![]() Currently streaming on season 1 of Pose on Netflix. TAMARA MAURICE WILLIAMS (Working Girl) is an actress/dancer/Writer hailing from New York City! Most recently had a recurring role on hit tv show, Dispatches from elsewhere as a fierce, high energy Aerobics Instructor (AMC). She is very thankful to have been a part of this project and to have shared space with such beautiful and inspiring women. N’YOMI STEWART (Collegiate Ki) (she/they) is an actress, dancer and writer finishing up her final year at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In January 2020, the Black Trans Travel fund welcomed Morticia Godiva as their Director of Client Services. ![]() As an artist, Godiva often engages in work that may intersect with their identity. Towards the end of summer 2020, Godiva wrapped filming for a murder mystery web series Hotline. The film tells a story of black love and dating within polyamorous relationship. Some of her work includes Feeling Like An Orchid, a short film that she wrote, produced and starred in. MORTICIA ANTOINETTE GODIVA (Goddess G) is an actor, writer, producer and dancer. She wrote episode nine ( Refuge) of Round House Theater’s web series Homebound, and was one of the writers for Arena Stage’s short film The 51st State. ![]() She was featured as Patra in King Ester and acted as a story consultant for the series. Her radio play, Quest of The Reed Marsh Daughter, can be heard on the Girl Tale’s Podcast, and her play The Diaz Family Talent Show can be read on the Play at Home website. She is the curator and a co-producer of Long Wharf Theater’s Black Trans Women At The Center: An Evening of Short Plays. | FIGUEROA EDIDI (Loud Aunty) Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American performance artist, author, educator, speech writer, a Helen Hayes Award winning playwright ( Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Helen Hayes Award 2020), For Black Trans Girls…, Ghost/Writer, The Diaz Family Talent Show, Quest of The Reed Marsh Daughter, The Dance of Memories), advocate, dramaturg, a two-time Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographer (2016, 2018) and co-editor/co-director of the Black Trans Prayer Book. recent stage credits: A Time Like This: Music for Change (Carnegie Hall, Stage Director), Girl From the North Country (Public Theater, Associate Choreographer), where love lies fallow (Open Call/The Shed, The Public Theater, Playwright/Choreographer/Director), SKiNFoLK: An American Show (NYT Critic’s Pick//The Bushwick Starr/National Black Theater, Choreographer) upcoming: The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel (The Movement Theatre Company/New Georges, Movement Director) BFA, Tisch/NYU MFA, The New School nicHi is currently also a Resident Artist in New Victory Theater’s LabWorks Residency 20-21. nicHi’s reparations-based mutual aid fund, nicHi’s SuSu, launched in October 2020. her sacred offering for Black womxn, (pray), co-composed by Starr Busby & JJJJJerome Ellis, has been commissioned by Ars Nova. she recently developed an interactive dance exhibit for the National Museum of African-American Music, and Co-Directed an evening-length event for the Women’s Summit at this year’s all-virtual Sundance Film Festival (2021). she has developed original theater work at Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, and The Public Theater, among others. she is the Head of Movement in the NYU/Tisch Playwrights Horizons Theater School studio. NicHi douglas (Director, Vision Resident) is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, director, playwright, educator and ART-IVIST who spells her name with a capital H.
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