Samara Gaev is a New York based activist, educator, theatre director, and performer. Her work has taken her to Zimbabwe, Senegal, Hawaii, Brasil, Peru, Cuba, and throughout the U.S. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Truthworker Theatre Company, a social justice based hip-hop theatre company for high school and college aged youth in NYC. Samara is honored to be the Resident Artist/Scholar at Columbia University’s Teachers College: Graduate School of Education. She serves as an educational specialist, teaching artist, and artist in residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She is also the National Education Director for Question Bridge: Black Males, a Board Member of Project Rhythm, and Curriculum Writer for Hurricane Season. Her work is political, spiritual, transformational, and examines class, race, the PIC, patriarchy, hetero-normative codes and culture, and systems of oppression that not only excuse, but enable cycles of violence.
Samara has had the opportunity to train with such choreographers as Bill T. Jones, Garth Fagan, and Urban Bush Women, and is a current company member of Organic Magnetics, under the direction of Maija Garcia—Creative Director and Associate Choreographer of FELA!. Samara has also performed extensively with Universal Arts Co. in Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, co-directed by Obbie and Bessie award winner Robbie McCauley, and The Beat, which brought her to Zimbabwe’s Harare International Festival for the Arts as a performer and teacher.
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