2023 I-M Gallery
Jourdan Keith (she/her)
Playwright
Jourdan Imani Keith, Seattle’s 2019- 2022 Civic Poet, is a Pushcart nominated author. Her play, an Afro-futurist trilogy was awarded support for “The Uterine Files: Episode One” by office of ARTS and Artist Trust. Featured in Forbes and on NPR, her Orion Magazine essays, Desegregating Wilderness and At Risk appear in the Best American Science and Nature Writing Anthology, as well as text books. The founder of Urban Wilderness Project she leads its R U An Endangered Species™ Women and Whales First: Poetry in a Climate of Change campaign. A recipient of the 2022 US Water Alliance Outstanding Artist prize and a 2018 Americans for the Arts award, her TEDx Talk, Your Body of Water became the theme for King County's 2016-2018 Poetry on Buses program. Her essays and poems are in Prairie Schooner, Terrain, Cosmonaut, YES magazine and Seismic.
Rebecca O'Neil (she/her)
Director
Rebecca is excited to collaborate with Jourdan and this fabulous cast to bring The Uterine Files: Episode 1 to the New Works Festival. An emerging director herself, Rebecca is the founding artistic director of The Shattered Glass Project and is grateful to the entire 2024 Incubator/Mentor Cohort for their talent and willingness to explore creative collaboration.
Ziara Greathouse (she/her)
Virginia Mary | The Uterine Files: Episode 1
Ziara Greathouse is a mezzo- soprano, originally from Atlanta GA. She studied choral music education at Kennesaw State University and opera performance at the University of British Columbia. Her notable roles include Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” and Bronka in the Russian opera “The Passenger.”