Samara Gaev, founder and Artistic Director of Truthworker Theatre Company, is a New York based but widely traveled (nationally and internationally) activist, educator, theater director and performer with 16 years’ experience using performance for cross-cultural healing and social change, including working with formerly incarcerated, gang affiliated and pregnant youth. Samara has studied with choreographic luminaries, including Bill T. Jones, Garth Fagan and Urban Bush Women; been an artist-in-residence and/or teaching artist at prestigious venues; served as an anti-oppression trainer for severak major institutions; and lectured and performed widely, including at the UN, Yale and NYU.