Djola BrannerDjola Branner is an interdisciplinary artist/educator who combines movement, sound and light to create compelling portraits of American life for the stage. His original full-length and one-act dramas give voice to individuals historically absent fromthe theater, and explore a diverse and complex range of human experiences. Co-founder of the award-winning performance group Pomo Afro Homos, Branner toured nationally and internationally with the shows Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life and Dark Fruit, performing in venues as varied as college cafeterias and the Lincoln Center. His work has been supported by the Creative Capital, Jerome, McKnight and Bush Foundations; and published in the anthologies Colored Contradictions, and Staging Gay Lives and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Lesbian and Gay Writers. Branner is currently dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts and associate professor of theatre at Hampshire College. SASH & TRIM AND OTHER PLAYS (RedBone Press, 2013) is the first collection of his dramatic work. Read More Read Less