Meet the Founders
Who We Are
Teal
she/they
Teal Holliday is a writer, artist and actor. She recently graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy with a focus in Music Theatre. Prior to attending Teal worked professionally as an actor in Kansas City in multiple films and stage productions.
She infuses her theatre background in all that she does—be it her work for film, music, or her interior design business, Varius Interior. Her holistic approach to design enables her to build intimate spaces that bring out the best in us all.
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Ras
they/them
a generative multidisciplinary artist, educator, producer, and community builder from Kansas City, Missouri. Professionally their background is in experimental, ensemble, and socially engaged theater for all ages. Ras is driven by the insatiable need to uncover the nuances of the world in order to build pathways for positive equitable change. Over 11 years, their performances have been a vessel to transform lessons and research into memorable moments of community connection.
As a creative community builder, Ras takes a holistic approach to art-making, utilizing their skills to create processes, structures, and content in service of collective care. Ras is currently developing a sustainable interdisciplinary art ecosystem model as an alternative to the current performing arts industry model. This model is being implemented in partnership with a rural community in Northeast Alabama.
Ras has a BA in Theater-Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC class of 2015) and is currently working towards their Masters in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship with a minor in Creative Community Development from The New School (Class of 2023).
Jarobi
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Jarobi Moorhead is an artist, musician, and Emmy award winning film producer. His recent credits include the forthcoming feature length documentaries, Little Richard: I Am Everything and Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. Both are having their world premieres at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Jarobi employs his background in history as the foundation for all his work. He aims to use this grounding to bring forgotten truths to light and as a mode of reimagining our collective future.
Jarobi is releasing his first solo immersive sonic installation in the Summer of 2023.
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