(photo by Kenzi Crash)
BIO
Anissa Weinraub (she/femme) is a theater-maker, educator, and organizer, living and working in Lenapehoking / Philadelphia. Her cultural work sits at the intersection of creativity, community-building, and political transformation. Her days are spent helping people claim their expressive, whole selves; facilitating ensemble-based devised theater processes; and convening groups of people to strategize toward collective change.
Anissa has shown work/collaborated with Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Arts, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Cornerstone Theater Company, Wilma Theater, Simpatico Theatre, Directors Gathering, First Person Arts, Theatre Exile, Liberty Cabbage Theatre, BareTeeth Crew, CounterPULSE San Francisco, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, WHYY, Team Sunshine, ILL DOOTS, and the Academy at Palumbo. She has organized alongside the Teacher Action Group, Caucus of Working Educators, and the Philadelphia Student Union. Awards include two Art & Change Grants from the Leeway Foundation, the Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Independence Public Media’s Community Voices Grant, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She also ventures into audio and film production, serving as director/producer/story doula on the podcast Philly Education Stories and as executive producer on the web series, Resistance: the battle of philadelphia.
Anissa is a founding member of Practice Space, a collective of devisers, media makers, facilitators and cultural workers who employ a cultural organizing strategy, using art and creativity to advance community development and policy change.
Anissa attended Brown University (B.A.) and Temple University (M.Ed).