The Artists Behind
Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop
Community Care
BRTW’s team remain actively involved in 2 circles of community care. First, we use the arts as a vehicle to disrupt oppressive forces that marginalize members of our Black community. Second, we prioritize a justice-centered work environment that is loving, safe, critically engaging, creative, and free.
Forward Looking
BRTW is poised for growth, and we owe it to our artists and our community to continually improve our path forward. This absolutely includes our artistic and programming efforts, but it also includes our advocacy work and the ways in which justice makes itself known in our practices. BRTW’s mission demands that we not only engage with histories of oppression but look forward to co-create just, sustainable futures.
For Us. By Us.
BRTW’s work centers Black identities and experiences, and our operations center Black artists. We are proud to offer stipends to all Black artists who share their time and talent with us, and we have a vision to offer competitive wages, benefits, and work culture when we have the capacity to do so.
Co-Artistic Producers
The co-artistic producers determine and execute BRTW’s operational and artistic vision.
H. Harvey
Co-Founding Co-Artistic Producer
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HH is a Brooklyn-based writer/director/producer who specializes in nontraditional storytelling for stage, audio, and screen. She co-founded Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop in 2015 and currently serves as Co-Artistic Producer with Mieko Gavia and Tim Craig. She co-wrote AFTERSWARM (2018) with Mieko Gavia through a residency with The Tank. AFTERSWARM premiered at JACK in Brooklyn in 2019. She co-wrote and co-directed REVOLUTION (2015) with Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop, which has toured the Northeast and appeared at HERE Arts Center and JACK. She also co-developed FRUIT (2016) with BRTW, which appeared at several colleges, universities, and community spaces. She wrote the multi-episode series THE GREEN ZONE (2019-) for BRTW with support from WBAI and Black and Latino Film Coalition and the audio drama, BANDANA COUNTRY (2020) for BRTW. Recent directing credits include Shakespeare’s HAMLET (2021) and RITA IS THE GOAT by Melanie Maria Goodreux (2020) at The Foundry in the Berkshires, BARS by Pravin Wilkins (2020) for Four Walls Theater, FLUID (2018) by Sheyenne Javonne Brown for CPT at the Schomburg, and RUINS (2018) by Hope Rehak for the Araca Project at The American Theatre of Actors. And when she’s not staying TF inside, she’s walking the cutest dog this side of the Hudson River.
Mieko Gavia
Co-Artistic Producer
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Mieko is a writer, actress, model and producer. Her acting credits include Joan of Arc in La Pucelle, Lou Salome in Lou at the Paradise Factory, the webseries Quarter Century (Imani), Afterswarm at JACK (Gigi), Gardener of Stars at Detroit’s Light Box (Gardener), The Reenactors at Abrams Arts Center (Actress 2), and Creative Time’s installations: Private Moment (Alice) and The Privilege of Escape (Dr. Crenshaw). Mieko’s play Dog has been performed at the Gene Frankel Theatre, her play Afterswarm (co-written with Heather Harvey) has been performed at JACK, and her non-theatrical writing has been featured in Bustle, Buzzfeed, Oxygen, and Efniks.
Tim Craig
Co-Artistic Producer
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Tim is a Brooklyn-based writer, actor, producer, and visual artist. He joined Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop in Fall 2019.
Members Emeritus
BRTW has benefited from the generosity, talent, and support of many people. While we wish we could list them all here, we can single out some of the artists who helped BRTW along in the early years.
Kevin Green
Co-Founder + Producing Ensemble Member
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Jovan Davis
Producing Ensemble Member
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Sheyenne Javonne Brown
Ensemble Member
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