Hampshire College

Djola Branner, assistant professor of theatre, received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, his M.A. from San Francisco State University, and his M.F.A. from the New School for Drama (formerly known as Actors Studio Drama School).

His interdisciplinary work, which combines music, movement, and text as language, explores the broad gray area between performance art and theatre, and gives voice to individuals historically absent from the stage.

He has presented throughout the U.S. and abroad, and published in such anthologies as Voices Rising, Colored Contradictions, and Staging Gay Lives. He has taught dance, acting, and dramatic writing at Macalester College, University of Minnesota, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Affiliations
School for Interdisciplinary Arts

Recent Courses
Ensemble Production (Fall 2010)
Opening The Instrument (Fall 2010)
Hip Hop Theatre - UMASS (Spring 2010)
Out of Character: Writing and Performing the Monologue (Spring 2010)