Alexis Atkinson
Alexis Atkinson is a multi-medium artist based and bred in Queens, New York. Her passion for social justice, art, performance, and community building drives her work in theater, film, and music respectively. Her artistic mission is to create art with "insights that incite," crediting her double major in Theater & Dance and American Studies at Colby College as the foundation for this mission. As an actress, her credits include Dixon Place, The Tank NYC, and the Billie Holiday Theatre. She has performed in many classic works such as Tartuffe, Hamlet, Lysistrata, Oedipus Rex and A Raisin in the Sun and has recently taken on many contemporary masterpieces like Top Dog, Underdog and The Horn of Salvation. In playwriting, Alexis focuses primarily on naturalism, spirituality, and generational cursing/ healing in the specific lineage and tradition of African-American oral storytelling. Her plays Constellations and Water, both members of her burgeoning canon, each focus on different natural elements deeply tied to Black trauma and triumph with others in the saga to follow. Because when creating for film and television, she aims to give BIPOC the gift of mundanity, shedding light on their everyday troubles and modern values as an act of restorative justice for their humanity. Her web series STUNTED, with its timely message about finding peace in the in-between spaces of life, spotlights the modern woes of BIPOC 20-somethings that exist in conjunction with and apart from their experiences as politicized bodies. Currently, she is producing the debut album she wrote as her persona Ama Encore. Alexis hopes that her work invites and inspires dialogue as much as it does action, connection, and empathy.
Acting/Writing:
thealexisatkinson.com
https://alexismatkinson.weebly.com/gallery.html
Music:
amaencore.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YefryjVY66unb53CnoMAf
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ama-encore/1539878181
Web Series:
https://thealexisatkinson.wixsite.com/stuntedtheseries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9VGav739c&list=PLounLKrpUdT5AUwqeDxoig5taZixemw-m
https://instagram.com/stuntedseries
With Theater in Asylum: The Debates 2021
Acting/Writing:
thealexisatkinson.com
https://alexismatkinson.weebly.com/gallery.html
Music:
amaencore.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YefryjVY66unb53CnoMAf
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ama-encore/1539878181
Web Series:
https://thealexisatkinson.wixsite.com/stuntedtheseries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9VGav739c&list=PLounLKrpUdT5AUwqeDxoig5taZixemw-m
https://instagram.com/stuntedseries
With Theater in Asylum: The Debates 2021
Theater in Asylum (TIA) is a New York-based theater company founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. TIA joyfully pursues a rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.
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