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Rachael K Sharp is an innovative theatre practitioner, facilitator, mediator, and educator specializing in interactive performances and workshops, restorative circles and caucus / affinity groups, and organizational change rooted in social and transformative justice.
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Rachael K Sharp, MA
Rachael K Sharp is an artist and facilitator dedicated to social and racial justice, passionate about community based creativity, healing and transformation. Her dynamic style ignites the imagination and invites courage and vulnerability, connection and possibility. Rachael is currently a professor of theatre and social justice at Metropolitan State University and Aurora Community College. As a co-founder of Creative Strategies for Change (CSC) Rachael has served in an array of roles for more than a decade, navigating the many challenges of nonprofit administration and developing and delivering innovative programs and curriculum with her specialization in applied theatre, popular education, and restorative practices. The Social Imagination series is one of her cornerstone programs emerging from her graduate work at NYU, including a TEDx presentation. The process based work gathers a collective of artists to devise a theatrical production addressing a relevant social issue. Productions include the original interactive performance event, Use Your Imagination: Dismantling Racism (2011), Race Matters? (2014), In[visible] Woman (2017), Place Matters (2018), and Reckoning (2022).
Rachael holds a Master of Arts from the Gallatin School at New York University, where she received the Nia award for outstanding work in the arts and social justice and facilitated arts integrated intergroup dialogue through the commission on Gender, Race and Social Justice. She has completed professional training with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, Dominic Barter (Restorative Circles), Just Practice, Mariame Kaba, and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at NYU, as well as renowned artists including Anna Deavere Smith, Julian Boal, Youssouf Koumbassa, and Renee Redding Jones. From schools and universities to public health departments and city governments, Rachael has worked with a range of communities and sectors, her work is widely adaptable.
Rachael holds a Master of Arts from the Gallatin School at New York University, where she received the Nia award for outstanding work in the arts and social justice and facilitated arts integrated intergroup dialogue through the commission on Gender, Race and Social Justice. She has completed professional training with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, Dominic Barter (Restorative Circles), Just Practice, Mariame Kaba, and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at NYU, as well as renowned artists including Anna Deavere Smith, Julian Boal, Youssouf Koumbassa, and Renee Redding Jones. From schools and universities to public health departments and city governments, Rachael has worked with a range of communities and sectors, her work is widely adaptable.
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Work Samples
Video Links Reckoning Performance 2022 Place Matters Event 2018 [In]Visible Woman Post Show Dialogue 2017 |
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Partners
Much of this work calls for collaboration and co-facilitation. Check out some of my trusted partners in consulting, facilitation, and theatre for transformation:
Phases of Self Ascension
Usir Consulting
Sol Vida
Phases of Self Ascension
Usir Consulting
Sol Vida