Brianna Sloane, Director
Brianna Sloane
Director: Pulling at the Roots: Three Plays About Northampton History; A Stake in the Ground: 1774; The Hull/Hawley Plays; Northampton Readings: Blood on the Snow; A Light Under the Dome
Brianna Sloane is a director, actor, maker, and educator based in Western Massachusetts, who is passionate about excavating place-based stories through research-driven devising and development work. She is a co-founder of TheatreTruck, a mother-owned collaborative that developed new, site-specific work in Western Massachusetts for 12 years.
Highlights with TheatreTruck: Co-writer/Director: The Emily Dickinson Project (in the Amherst home of the poet), Deviser/Playwright/Director: The Mill Project, exploring women’s bodies in labor in the age of industrialization.
Brianna holds an MFA in Directing (UMass Amherst), BA (Hampshire College), and a certificate for intensive study of physical & mask theatre and Commedia dell’Arte at the Accademia dell’Arte (Arezzo, Italy). She makes work that centers physically-awake storytelling and embraces theater as a vehicle for community building and social change.