Nicole M. Brewer Joins Acting Faculty

August 11, 2020

 

Nicole M. Brewer has joined Yale School of Drama’s full time faculty as Lecturer in Acting.

Nicole earned her B.F.A. in theater arts at Howard University and her M.F.A. in acting at Northern Illinois University. As an actor, she has appeared at African American Shakespeare Company, Arena Stage, Colored Peoples Theater, Forum Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and the Hegira, among others. Her directing credits include productions at Catholic University, DC Fringe Festival, Howard University, Montgomery College, and St. Louis Black Rep.

As an educator and activist, Nicole is a leader in the movement to develop anti-racist theater practice. A partial list of her work includes teaching at Connecticut College, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Howard University, Montgomery College, National Theatre Institute, and Northern Illinois University; leading workshops and symposia at Boston Conservatory, Long Wharf Theatre, University of Miami, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Shakespeare’s Globe, Wingspace Design, Yale College, and Yale School of Drama; and authoring articles for both American Theater and Howlround.

“In addition to teaching ‘Anti-Racist Theater,’ in the Acting program, Nicole will provide significant curation and leadership to the course ‘Toward Anti-Racist Theater Practice.’ Moreover, she has already begun to consult with the deans, faculty, and staff on the development of more intentional institutional and individual habits of reducing and repairing harm, in order to dismantle the culture of white supremacy here at the School—a practice for which all of us must take responsibility,” says Dean James Bundy.

 

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