CHRIS FADALA, of Italian, Greek and Irish descent, grew up in an Italian neighborhood in Albany, New York. She holds a BFA in Theater/Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory. She has been performing since age six. Chris studied voice, piano and acting from age eleven. She is a member of AFTRA and SAG and her credits include numerous film, TV, radio, voice-overs, video, stage, comedy revue and murder mystery productions. Chris performed locally as a company member with the New Ehrlich Theater, Haley Productions, and Mobius Performing Group; she has done summer stock on Cape Cod, in Weston, Vermont, and in Providence, Rhode Island. Chris has her own voice over business (www.chrisfadala.com).
ELENA HARAP, co-founder of The Streetfeet Women with Mary McCullough in 1982, is a descendant of English Protestant and East European Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and lives in Boston. She studied acting with Josephine Lane and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Elena's interest in multicultural theatre and the life of cities led to founding Streetfeet Workshops for children with Angela Cook in 1975, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Her poems and essays have appeared in Sojourner, Bayou, Jewish Currents, Summer Home Review, and on NPR. She tours nationally in "Meet Eleanor Roosevelt," a one-woman show written and produced with Josephine Lane. Schedule
BEATRICE GREENE is an African American composer, pianist, writer, and preacher born in the South Bronx. Her works include numerous piano compositions that draw upon her musical palette of West African percussion, swing, blues, Latin rhythms, spirituals, and traditional Western harmony and counterpoint. In 2005 Beatrice received a commission from the Women’s United Nations Reporting Network to write and perform a composition, honoring those who fight internationally to end violence against women based on tradition and culture, at Andover Newtown Theological School, where she has been a student. Her poems and essays interweave philosophy, social justice, theology, science, and a profound love of nature. She holds degrees from Berklee College of Music, the College of Wooster, and Howard University. Her music can be found at www.myspace.com/beatricegreenerhythms.
MARY MILLNER MCCULLOUGH, co-founder of The Streetfeet Women, has a B.A. degree in Theatre Arts from Goddard College and a Master of Arts in Writing from Northeastern University. Her plays have been produced by Our Place Theater Project of Roxbury, Massachusetts and have been featured in Boston's Annual African American Theater Festival. Her play "Sorry Don't Fix It" was selected for production from the ACTRoxbury Playwriting Workshops and staged at Roxbury Community College. The Theatre Cooperative of Somerville, Massachusetts invited McCullough to write a one-act for their new plays festival in 2005. McCullough's short stories and poems have appeared in literary journals in New England.
AURA SANCHEZ was born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents living in one of the oldest barrios in New York City. Her quest to "figure out how and where I fit" in the American mosaic led her to study sociology and anthropology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She holds an M.A. in Education from Harvard and a law degree from Northeastern University. She has served as Peace Corps Country Director in Micronesia, where she lived and worked for two years. Presently she is coordinating a legal access program for immigrant victims of domestic violence. She lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts. She writes poetry and essays about growing up Latina in urban America. Aura has been a guest reader in workshops for Boston high school students and has participated in the Joiner Center Writers' Conference, University of Massachusetts. She joined The Streetfeet Women in 1991.
LI MIN MO was born in China and has lived and worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over two decades. She holds an M.A. degree in Education and Theatre from Goddard College and an MFA from Emerson College. Li Min has worked extensively as a storyteller, receiving awards and grants from the Boston Arts Lottery, the Cambridge Arts Council, and Channel 4's "You Gotta Have Art." In 1997 she received a grant for her first poetry collection from the Barbara Deming "Money for Women" Fund. In recent years she has been writing stories from her own Chinese cultural background and her experience as an immigrant in America. Women's voices -- silenced, enslaved, courageous, enlightened, and persevering -- all find their way into Li Min's poetry, fiction, and storytelling. She has recently completed a memoir, Spirit Bridges.
