Kaja Dunn

**Kaja Dunn, MFA, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, is an intimacy professional, diversity consultant, resident intimacy and cultural consultant for the Folger Shakespeare in Washington, DC, and associate faculty at Theatrical Intimacy Education. Kaja is a member of SAG-AFTRA and an actor, director, and activist.**

**Her work in television includes Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount Plus), Harlem (Amazon), and The Equalizer (CBS) and the upcoming film Ricky. Intimacy work for theatre includes Broadway's Strange Loop (Associate Intimacy Director), Folger Shakespeare (Winter's Tale, Our Verse In Time, Metamorphosis, and The Reading Room), St. Louis Rep (Private Lives, The Confederates), Penumbra (Sugar in Our Wounds), Denver Center and ACT Seattle (Choir Boy), Two River Theatre (Wine in the Wilderness and Gem of the Ocean), among others.**

**She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center's National Medallion for her work on theatre and race. She has published on topics related to race, theatre, and intimacy in the books Intimacy Direction for the Theatre, The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook, and Black Women and the 'Rona, as well as in Theatre Topics, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, HowlRound, American Theatre Magazine, Journal for African American Women and Girls, and co-authored a chapter in the Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance.**

**Kaja has presented on issues of equity and diversity in theater for numerous organizations, including theaters and universities, Actors' Equity Association 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, KCATF, and The Association of Theatre in Higher Education, among other places.**

**You can find out more at her website, Kajadunn IG Kaja Dunn