Justine (she, they) is a performance and filmmaker, creative convener, teacher and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice & presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative and social tools, and the power of individual/collective creativity to imagine and bring about other possible selves, stories and 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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Justine's work is informed by 14+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama (now  DGSD),  guiding  learning, collaboration & storytelling 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 original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater,  Ars Nova, the 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, accredited by the International Coaching Federation, and 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.