ABOUT JUSTINE
Justine (she, they) is a performance and filmmaker, teacher and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice & presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative/social tools, and the power of the social imagination to help us dream and work towards other possible worlds.
As a facilitator and coach, she guides people in tapping into their inner life and insights, as well as identifying and building the external resources, tools and support they may need, to envision and establish meaningful creative lives and livelihoods.
Justine's work is informed by 14+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama (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 performer & 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, 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.
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.
GREETINGS ARTIST!
WE NEED YOU.
WE NEED YOUR ART.
NOW.
MORE THAN EVER.
WHATEVER YOUR CREATIVE WORK ,
WHEREVER IT GROWS OR SHOWS,
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE -
CONSIDER ME YOUR CHAMPION --
ACCOMPANYING YOU IN YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY,
AND SUPPORTING YOUR CREATIVE DESIRES.
I GUIDE WITH QUESTIONS AND CHALLENGES
(AND OFFER VALUABLE RESOURCES & TOOLS)
TO HELP YOU SURFACE MEANING,
FIND DIRECTION,
GROW AND AMPLIFY YOUR VOICE & VISION.
PRACTICE NOW TO MAKE BETTER MEMORIES IN
THE FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE ARTIST SELF WILL THANK YOU
FOR THE CREATIVE SEEDS YOU SEW TODAY.
THE FUTURE WORLD WILL BE BETTERED
FOR THE RIGOR AND CARE YOU BRING-
FOR THE VITAL, VULNERABLE WORK YOU CREATE -
REVEALING US TO OURSELVES
AND IMAGINING US FORWARD.