Rad Pereira

Rad Pereira is an (im)migrant cultural worker building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. Their cultural work has been experienced on stages, screens, stoops, swamps and sidewalks all over Turtle Island. They are co-founder/ artistic director of Haudenosaunee rematriation project, Iron Path Farm & Arts. Their book Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It is available through New Village Press. They are Director of Engagement & Impact at New York Stage & Film; proud board member of Superhero Clubhouse; Co-founder of You Are Here, a healing & arts organism for QTBIPOC; on the co-leadership team bringing solidarity economy to Network of Ensemble Theaters. They were 2017 NYC Public Artist in Residence with Department of Cultural Affairs and Children’s Services working with LGBQTIA foster youth; created The (Im)Migrant Hustle and produced Bang Bang Gun Amok I + II at Abrons Art Center, created Media Tools for Liberation with JackNY, facilitated Decolonization Rave and Cosmic Commons with You Are Here and created Breaking Broadway with Chris Myers and art.coop. As a director/ actor, Rad has contributed to stories at 20th Century Studios, AMC, HBO, CBS, NBC, MTV, Shudder, Signature Theater, MITU350, The Public Theater, La MaMa etc., Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin, Breaking the Binary Theater Festival, Poetic Theater, Ars Nova, Noor Theater, Sesame Street, Theatre 167 and various online media platforms. Rad has spoken, consulted and facilitated at the Art.coop, New Inc at New Museum, Queens Museum, Rio de Janeiro Museum, Instituto Republica, PSU Art + Social Practice, SITI Company Thought Center, United Nations, A Blade of Grass, Superblue, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Disney, The 8th Floor, Working Woman of Color Conference, Dance/NYC Symposium, New Inc at New Museum, and Culture/Shift. They are a proud alumnus of EmergeNYC & Interlochen. Grateful to their supportive team at Nicolosi & Co.