DAMIAN LOCKHART
Actor * Model * Writer * Director
I am an artistic activist.
I strive to live my life as both an artist and educator – seamlessly.
As an educator, performer, director, writer, and producer, I use theatre as my laboratory to create social change. I collaborate with fellow artists, and together we are sculpting a new age of theatre where marginalized individuals feel represented through complex and truthful characters and stories, while erasing the demeaning characterizations of stereotypes found in the mainstream. I aim to ignite self-transformations and self-reflexivity of the oppressed and oppressors, by catalyzing a productive conversation on topics such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, sexual abuse, and police brutality through my visceral form of theatre. My work incorporates styles and techniques such as poetic realism, performance art, puppetry, rituals and myths within the African Diaspora, and Afrofuturism all filtered through a sensory lens. I am interested in facilitating the healing of a broken society while empowering underrepresented individuals spiritually, intellectually, and physically.