A performance and filmmaker, creative producer, teacher and coach, Justine (she, they) is interested in how one nurtures and sustains the authenticity of one's own voice, and how our innate insight and creativity might help us to imagine and work towards other possible worlds.

 

As a facilitator and coach,  she guides people in reconnecting with and drawing from inner resources and insights as they work to imagine, design and craft meaningful creative lives and livelihoods.

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Her work is informed by over 14 years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama (now  DGSD),  guiding  learning and collaboration across creative disciplines; And, from over 25+ years of experience collaborating with arts & culture and social impact organizations around the globe -  in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, South Africa, Germany, England, France, Canada,  Brazil, and more. 

 

As a filmmaker, Justine's work has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, and Rotterdam Film Festival, and her original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater,  Ars Nova, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art,  Orchard Project, UNM's Arts and Media Lab, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She has acted on stages at The Public Theater, NYTW, LaMama, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and many others, and is an Affiliated Artist & former fellow with New Georges.

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Justine holds an MFA from CUNY's Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, an MA from The New School in Media and Culture, a BA from Brown University in Theater Studies, and she trained with Augusto Boal's Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris. She is a certified professional coach and is accredited by the International Coaching Federation, and she trained in group & conflict facilitation with Neve Shalom / Wahat-al-Salaam at Columbia University. 

 

She lives in Brooklyn with her child, and is currently working on a book about death and creativity with death doula and artist, Kate Muehlman Cataldo.