I’m Slade (they/them), an New York based actor/interdisciplinary artist and recent BFA Drama graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. My journey as a performer began around four in my home town in North Carolina, where I could be found holding impromptu singing and dancing performances, and opening plays cast full of action figures, Bratz dolls, a cousin, maybe a fallen tree, and whatever odds and ends spoke to me in my grandma’s backyard.

I found that theatre satisfied my hunger for storytelling and expanded my understanding of the litmitless potential performance itself posseses, which subsequently lead me to an Arts focused track from high school to college.

During my time at UNCSA, I had the privellege of further exploring my ever evolving artistic voice within a, not so traditional, conservatory enviornment. I ended up falling in love with experimental/devised theatre and more recently Performance art. I unapologetically bring; my heart; unique experience; deep curiosity of “Being”; exploration of identity and expansion through community to every room any medium brings me too, all through a Queer Black lens.