Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Timmia Hearn DeRoy, (Theatre & Performance Studies MA, University of Kansas, Theatre Studies BA, Yale University) is a Queer Caribbean-American theatre and film developer. She was a founding member of the Trinidad and Tobago PRIDE Arts Festival, former Director of the School for the Arts at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, the Caribbean’s oldest theatre company, and former Marketing Manager at the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. Additionally she has freelanced as a casting director, acting coach and production manager on numerous commercial and independent film projects in the Caribbean. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Theater & Performance Studies at the University of Kansas, where her research focuses on transformational theatre practice, memory and ethnography studies, anti-colonial theatre practice and Disability Justice across the Diasporas to which she belongs. Timmia has worked teaching both acting and script writing in Trinidad and Tobago as well as the United States and Nepal, and currently teaches acting at the University of Kansas. She is currently developing a number of film projects, including a documentary series about inequalities in reproductive care in the United States, which is currently in production. She is additionally developing a portfolio of screenplays and is seeking opportunities to get her screen-writing work produced.
You can check out her work on her website (linked below).