About

Teaching Artist and Arts Administrator seeking to facilitate arts education and development through Theater and Performing Arts programming. Creative and versatile team leader with over 20 years of theater performance and managerial experience, with a specific focus on Spoken Word, Theater. and Public Speaking.

Skills

  • Administration
  • Education

Experience

Cherrye Davis

Work experience
  • Adjunct Professor, Embodied Performance, NYU-Collaborative Arts Studio at   New York University
  • Develop and execute “Embodied Performance”, a semester long, weekly, 3-hour workshop focused on global movement style and influence, culminating in devised performances.
  • Instruct and develop work with Undergrad + Graduate level students across multiple disciplines to encourage individual and collaborative skill building

Cherrye Davis

Work experience
  • Write curriculum and teach for “New Visions, New Voices”, a program teaching the essentials of direction and playwriting to aspiring stage and film directors, ages 14-18 yrs.
  • Provide mentorship to students in their beginnings as directors, emphasizing the development of their artistic voice and collaboration skills

Cherrye Davis

Work experience
  • Lead Facilitator/Curriculum Development of Special Partnerships-Project Reset at   New Museum
  • ♣ Write curriculum for New Museum's partnership with Project Reset, an arts-based program focused on rehabilitation of young people experiencing first time, low level arrests.
  • ♣ Lead 2 hr programs, leading participants through exploration of museum exhibitions and artists’ work, facilitating conversation and reflection on participants’ arrest experience; support a meaningful exchange of ideas on restorative justice, current carceral system, and personal interaction with the law.

Cherrye Davis

Work experience
  • Mentor/Educator, Spoken Word and Poetry, Urban Word NYC  at   Urban Word NYC
  • September, 2018 - August, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Lead poetry/hip hop literacy workshops, as per Urban Word NYC curriculum
  • ♣ Customize workshops with NYC public middle and high schools, using poetry to accent and emphasize their existing English curriculum.

Cherrye Davis

Work experience
  • Lead facilitation and storytelling techniques with museum educators
  • Introduce breathing, body- language, and self-care techniques