Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson
Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson is an intimacy choreographer, performance artist, and award-winning poet from Brooklyn, NY. She uses theatre and media performance to investigate pleasure, sexuality, and human rights. Her critical and creative work appears in Routledge, Black Camera, Qualitative Inquiry, Boston University Press, International Review of Qualitative Research, Theatre Topics, Howlround and Research in Drama Education.
Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson is an intimacy choreographer, performance artist, and award-winning poet from Brooklyn, NY. She uses theatre and media performance to investigate pleasure, sexuality, and human rights. Her critical and creative work appears in Routledge, Black Camera, Qualitative Inquiry, Boston University Press, International Review of Qualitative Research, Theatre Topics, Howlround and Research in Drama Education. Dr. Ayshia has intimacy directed and/or led workshops for productions at The Huntington, Fresh Ink, Jewel Box Theatre in NYC, Arts at the Armory (Somerville), LSU, Northeastern, Company One, StageSource, and the DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at Salem State University. Education: MFA from CalArts; PhD from UMass Amherst. youtube.com/c/DrAyshiaTV
As of January 2025.