Writer and Performer
Brief info
Carlos Sirah is a writer and performer from the Mississippi Delta. His work encounters: exile, rupture, displacement, and migration in relation to institutions, local and beyond. His most recent theater pieces include: The Utterances, The Light Body, and Planets Measured by Parallax. His work has been performed at Poet’s House, Nuyorican Café, KGB, New Dramatists, the International Center for Photography, and the National Black Theatre Festival, and he has performed on the main stage at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Sirah has developed work with The Flea Theater, Vermont Studio Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Warrior Writers in collaboration with William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, The Hambidge Center, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center. Sirah is a 2017-2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, Playwrights Center Core Apprentice, and Millay Colony residential fellow. Sirah is a facilitator and serves on the steering committee of Warrior Writers, a community of veterans who make art. Sirah received his MFA from Brown University in 2017.