Yo Miss!

Judith Sloan is a masterful actor/dialectition and a sublime mixologist of sound. She blends both gifts in her newest play, Yo Miss!, in which she channels her own family’s traumas through the experiences of immigrant and minority teens whom she has taught in arts programs over the last two decades. The piece ushers audiences into international high schools–some disquieted by ethnic tensions–and to an “alternate sentencing institution (a last stop before jail) where teens struggle to master self-control. Sloan explains the life events and coincidences that landed her a first gig as a teaching artist, then begins playing her students with the simplest of adjustments–an accent, a headscarf.