Sisi Reid

About the Artist

Sisi Reid is a Black and Queer artist from Wheaton Maryland, who practices theatre for collective liberation and healing. She is an actor, playwright, director, spoken word performer, facilitator, teaching artist, and an arts administrator. As an actor, Sisi has performed with The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre, Theater Alliance, and Young Playwrights’ Theater, LiveArt DC, Mosaic Theater, Pinky Swear, and Convergence Theater. As an applied theatre practitioner, she has facilitated theatre workshops in prisons in Michigan, Virginia, and Brazil. Sisi is a teaching artist with Young Playwrights’ Theater and F.R.E.S.H.H Inc., serves on the board of the Pride Youth Theatre Alliance and is a producing playwright with The Welders 3.0. Sisi centers Black girls & womxn, queer sexuality, and African ancestral wisdomsankofa-in her storytelling. The core of her creative practice is rooted in deconstructing silence and reclaiming space to see and be seen within community-ubuntu-.

Artist's Statement

I create theatre that incorporates poetry, movement, and song. I use games and metaphors to create worlds where Black Womxn can move through traumas in sisterhood. I center Black girls & womxn, queer sexuality, and African ancestral wisdom-sankofa-in my storytelling in response to the continual dehumanization of Black women globally. I am developing my first solo show, Rock, Paper, Scissors which explores my journey in becoming a whole and healed Black Bisexual Woman. Through the process of its creation, I share pieces with ensembles of actors and Black communities globally because I value community influence to shape my work.