Charlotte Brathwaite is a New York City-based director of Barbadian descent. At 16, she came to New York and worked as a performer with La MaMa. Today, she is a director known for her unique approach to classical and unconventional texts, music, dance, visual arts, installation and performance events presented globally. Her work considers the current moment while dealing with subject matter from the historical past to the distant future, illuminating issues of social justice, race, sex, power, and complexities of the human condition. Brathwaite highlights unheard and unseen stories of the realities, threats, and dreams of the marginalized while offering new perspectives in content and form. She contrasts ideas of beauty and violence, history and fiction, fantasy and reality, engaging with the complex diasporatic identity through modes of agency rather than oppression. Brathwaite received her BA from Amsterdam School for the Arts, her MFA from Yale, and is an assistant professor at MIT.