Meet JPS’ New Directing Apprentice: enih agwe
Enih Agwe
Please join me in welcoming Jupiter Performance Studio's new Directing Apprentice, Enih Agwe.
Biography
Enih Agwe is an award-winning actor, storyteller, teaching artist, and mentor of Cameroonian heritage, with a diverse body of work spanning stage, film, and voice arts. In 2023, she founded a mentorship program for young creatives to develop, amplify, and empower their authentic artistic voices.
Read more about Enih at JPS' website https://www.jupiterperformancestudio.com/guest-associate...
About JPS' Directing Apprenticeship Initiative
JPS' Directing Apprenticeship Initiative is a paid season-long immersive experience that introduces one early-career artist to an unconventional approach to theatre-making grounded in ecowomanist and queer Black feminist approaches to living a fully-embodied life as a producing artistic director, arts leader, and theatrical ceremonialist.
Apprentices are hand-picked by Ebony and there is no application process. Trusted peers are able to make recommendations in some circumstances. Apprentices receive: 1. Mentoring 2. Training 3. Access to all educational experiences 4. The opportunity to offer substantive support for JPS' productions and engagement programs 5. An honorarium, travel and per diem and 6. Touring experiences
Ebony Noelle Golden's Ecowomanist Directing Imperative
I'm so happy to have met Enih though Girl Be Heard this spring! She was focused, kind, an excellent listener and worked well with the ensemble. In one of our planning sessions I shared much of my approach to directing which she was able to implement with the ensemble in the next rehearsal. I thought to myself, this is someone I want to nurture and support!
Throughout my life and career, I have explored the theatrical stage as a space for amplifying my cosmic agency. In the expansive imagination of the ecowomanist, the theatre has served as a space of portal hopping, time-bending, divination and world-making. I consistently work with people have not trained with or have been directed by Black women or femmes. Which is asinine!
The world needs more ecowomanist performance makers ignited by the theories and practices of earth veneration, ancestral reclamation, spiritual fortitude, love of nature, spirituality, social justice, and artistic craft. It is this framework that has shifted me and many of my peers, elders and students' approach to ritual performance-making.
It has also been my practice to build what I want to see in my community of accountability, regardless of funding or permission. I certainly believe in critique with the offering of applicable solutions. In the spirit of mentorship and rigorous creative study, this apprenticeship is an offering that may develop into a larger program. I'm dreaming something up. The field certainly needs it.
Donate to JPS' programs here: https://donorbox.org/sustain-jps
More soon and I certainly appreciate your support.
Light and love,
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