KAJA DUNN (She Series) is an assistant professor and the Head of Acting at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte Department of Theatre and affiliate faculty for Theatrical Intimacy Education, where she co-initiated the summit on Race and Intimacy at Princeton University. Kaja is an actor, director, and activist. She has performed nationally and internationally in over 40 productions.
She has presented on issues of Equity and Diversity for Actor’s Equity as their racial consultant, The Women’s Theatre Festival, Blumenthal Performing Arts, MICHA, North Carolina Theatre Association (Keynote Panelist), Children’s Theatre Charlotte, Anti-Racism and Decolonization at University of London Goldsmiths, SETC and SETC Theatre Symposium, KCACTF and The Association of Theatre in Higher Education, among other places. She is on the Executive Board of the Black Theatre Network . She teaches workshops and consults for universities and private corporations. She has published in the US and has two co-authored publications coming out in the UK one for a new Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance on Decolonizing Shakespeare in performance and another for the Theatre, Dance and Performance Training’s Special “Against the Canon”, Training Theatre Students of Color in the USA. She was most recently interviewed in American Theatre Magazine around issues of Race and Theatre education.
You can find more info about her Equity work and consulting at
https://www.kajadunn.com/edi.html