...Awarded The 2022 Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellowship
&
Anne K. Flagg Multicultural Award
"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."
- Audre Lorde |
Shavonne Coleman (she/they) is a fabulist, facilitator, teaching/performing artist, writer, director, and cultivator of connection and community. Shavonne is from Detroit and is currently utilizing her passion and deep belief in the power of theatre as a catalyst for social change as the Inclusive Teaching and Learning Specialist in the Center for Teaching and Learning (formally known as the Faculty Innovation Center.) She has an MFA from Eastern Michigan University for Applied Drama/Theatre for the Young where she's had the opportunity to travel to S. Korea to direct a Youth Theatre performance at the Zoom Theatre in Seoul. In recent years Ms. Coleman was the Assistant Director of Acting at Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, developing their Mosaic Empowerment Experience Project in multiple Detroit middle schools. From 2017-to 2018, she returned to her alma mater at Grand Valley State University (BA '07) as a Visiting Professor in the Theatre Department. There, Shavonne was the co-advisor for ReACT! an interpersonal violence peer-education theatre troupe, and was awarded the 2018 TYA Emerging Leadership award to research the historical impact of people of color in the field of Theatre for Young Audiences. She later went on to publish multiple articles as a staff writer for TYA magazine. In 2018 she became the Theatre for Dialogue Specialist and a Lecturer in Theatre and Dance here at the University of Texas at Austin where she was one of the 2019-2020 FIC Undergraduate Teaching Award Grant recipients for her work utilizing educational theatre and theatre for social change to address Interpersonal Violence Prevention. As the Inclusive Teaching and Learning Educational Developer(2020-22) she was honored to become one of the 2021-2022 Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellowship recipients.
Ms. Coleman is currently the Assistant Director for Transformative Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. |
Dramaturgy & Special ProjectsArbor Falls, University of Michigan (2024)- Dramaturg
Imogen Says Nothing University of Michigan (2023)- Dramaturg Came to Listen, University of Texas at Austin Center for Teaching and Learning (2022)- Organizer and Storyteller Victors of Character, Gerald R. Ford Museum (2021)- Development of Education Guide, Supplemental Video content, Interviewer Victors of Character, Gerald R. Ford Museum (2018)- Dramaturg & Talk Back Facilitation Midsummer SOULstice, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit (2016)- Development of Education Guide |