Denise Kumani Gantt

About the Artist

Denise Kumani Gantt’s plays and performance pieces include meditations/from the ash, winner of the Artscape Best Play Contest and voted Best New Play by The Baltimore Alternative and CityPaper; Three Stories to the Ground, written with Gabriel Shanks and winner of the Theatre Project Outstanding Vision in Theatre award and anatomy/lessons selected as part of Penumbra Theater’s Cornerstone Project (MN). Her play, The Gift, a brief history of everything we have ever known, received staged readings at A Contemporary Theater (ACT-Seattle), The Drama League (New York), and Cape May Stage (NJ). Her poetry collection, conjuring the dead, was awarde``d the Maryland Emerging Writers Award and she is a MacDowell fellow. Gantt currently serves on the board a digital story facilitator with the StoryCentre, CA and StoryCenter and is the director of education at Lyric Baltimore of Maryland Citizens for the Arts and is a member of the Baltimore Arts Education Initiative. Gantt is a graduate of Goucher College and received her MFA in theater from Towson University.