CREATIVE PRACTICE & PRODUCTION SERVICES

black suffering / white pleasure — an experimental short film grounded in Afro-Pessimist theory, exploring how Black suffering operates not simply as an experience of pain, but as a structural condition through which whiteness, humanity, and social order are imagined and sustained.

Director, Film Editor, Performer: Tezeru Teshome

Song Writers: Tezeru Teshome and Bianca Maria

Producer: Angela Webb Pigg

Hold My Hand — A dance film developed from the larger research project Write About Your Mother: An Immigrant’s Daughter in Search of Empathy. Drawing from interviews with daughters of immigrant mothers, the piece uses movement to explore care, sacrifice, cultural inheritance, and misunderstanding across generations. Through dance, the film considers the body as a site of memory and translation, asking how empathy might be practiced when language, history, and lived experience do not fully align.

Performer, Choreographer, Director/Editor, Interviewer: Tezeru Teshome

Strange Fruit — An original play following a group of college friends who begin to uncover the histories buried beneath their university campus. As the past pushes into the present, they confront a legacy shaped by Indigenous dispossession, slavery, and institutional silence. Blending haunting with historical reckoning, the play asks what happens when a place refuses to forget—and what the living owe to the histories they inherit.

Assistant Director, Producer, Narrator: Tezeru Teshome

Professional experience includes work with Goodman Theatre, Free Street Theater, Congo Square Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Pegasus Players, Kuumba Lynx, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Moxie Theatre, MPAACT, and the National Black Theatre Festival.

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S.H.O.W. — Storytelling, History & Original Writing

S.H.O.W. is a creative coaching and development practice for artists, writers, performers, and organizations ready to bring a story to life with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Grounded in intentional relationship building, S.H.O.W. consultations begin with your voice and your why - understanding what you want to say, why it matters, and how you want audiences to experience it.

The goal is not simply to complete a project, but to strengthen the artist behind it. Along the way, you develop practical skills in writing, performance, storytelling, creative decision-making, and collaboration - building the confidence and tools to carry into your next artistic endeavor.

  • Acting Coaching & Performance Development
    Individual and ensemble coaching focused on character, interpretation, delivery, confidence, performance preparation, and more.

  • Script Development & Writing Support
    Support with original scripts, research, adaptations, structure, character development, dialogue, and narrative refinement.

  • Project & Production Management
    Coordination of timelines, budgets, logistics, stakeholder communication, and implementation from concept through completion.

  • Community-Engaged Storytelling
    Development of projects that incorporate interviews, lived experience, oral history, and community voice into performance and media.

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T.E.L.L - Theatre for Experiential Learning & Leadership

T.E.L.L. is an applied theatre approach that uses performance, storytelling, and experiential learning to strengthen leadership, career readiness, communication, and civic engagement.

Informed by my career across higher education, student development, curriculum and program design, career readiness, civic engagement, and applied theatre, T.E.L.L. turns theatre-making into a space for experiential learning. Participants develop competencies that extend beyond the stage - including communication, collaboration, critical thinking, leadership, adaptive problem-solving, self-awareness, and the ability to connect learning to lived experience.

The approach can be adapted for colleges and universities, schools, youth programs, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and professional development settings.

  • Career Readiness & Leadership Through Theatre
    Interactive workshops that strengthen communication, collaboration, decision-making, adaptability, and professional confidence.

  • Theatre of the Oppressed & Devised Performance
    Participatory theatre experiences that help groups explore real-world challenges, share perspectives, and rehearse possibilities for change.

  • Experiential Curriculum & Program Design
    Theatre-based curricula, workshops, and learning programs aligned with academic, leadership, civic engagement, and career-readiness goals.

  • Community-Engaged Research & Storytelling
    Interviews, focus groups, listening sessions, and narrative-development processes that center community voice and inform public communication and organizational decision-making.

  • Youth Leadership & Civic Engagement
    Programs that strengthen youth voice, youth-adult partnership, shared governance, and pathways to college, career, and community leadership.

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