Episode Overview: Rayshawn Watkins interviews fellow GBC collective Hannah Bridgeo. Rayshawn and Hannah dive into Hannah’s origin story and reminisce on their shared time together in college. This heartfelt podcast episode will give you the warm and fuzzies as members realize the depth of their friendship. 

More about the speakers: 

Hannah Bridgeo is a dance educator, artist, musician and a grown-up theater kid. Currently, Bridgeo works as a dance and theater teacher at a high school in northern Phoenix. Bridgeo started dancing at 4 years old and performed her first drama monologue in kindergarten. She also started learning reading and performing various instruments around that same time. Bridgeo graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2021 with a degree in Dance Education. She is passionate about teaching in public schools because she believes everyone should have access to learn, create and produce art. This is Bridgeo’s second season with Grey Box Collective and she looks forward to many more. Instagram: @hannahmb57 

Rayshawn is currently working in the valley as a full time teacher at Heritage Academy Gateway. In his free time he performs with multiple groups in the valley such as Grey Box Collective, Automatic Response, and DDT to name a few! He plans on to keep sharing his love for dance to the scholars and people he runs into! Instagram: @jaquay.w

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective (GBC) devises interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic work about social and emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC finds innovative ways of exploring, challenging, and igniting difficult conversations. This is achieved by living in the messy grey areas of life and tackling socially relevant topics such as hate, shame, sexual violence, depression, and anxiety. GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. Since then, GBC has produced over 20 new works, created by nearly 100 artists, and partnered with a dozen local organizations. GBC has presented work at the Boulder Fringe Festival, the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ annual conference, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Phoenix Center of the Arts while in residency with nue[BOX].  In response to the pandemic, GBC expanded its digital offerings by hosting virtual workshops on Trauma-Informed Creative Practices, opening an online store with devising tools, and launching a podcast. For more information, sign up for GBC’s newsletter, check out GBC’s website, and follow GBC on social media.

Links to more about Grey Box Collective:

https://www.greyboxcollective.com/ 

https://www.greyboxcollective.com/podcast

https://www.greyboxcollective.com/shop

https://www.greyboxcollective.com/product-page/introduction-to-trauma-informed-creative-practices 

https://www.greyboxcollective.com/newsletter 

https://www.facebook.com/GreyBoxCollective/

https://www.instagram.com/grey_box_collective/

https://www.instagram.com/traumainformedcreativepractice/

This episode was edited by Rayshawn Watkins

Theme music Fox Williams 

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