{"id":5625,"date":"2021-06-28T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youngpeoplestheatre.org\/dramaschool\/?page_id=5625"},"modified":"2022-06-14T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:48:47","slug":"paulina-okieffe-anthony","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/youngpeoplestheatre.org\/dramaschool\/drama-school\/about-the-drama-school\/drama-school-staff\/paulina-okieffe-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulina O&#8217;Kieffe-Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paulina O&#8217;Kieffe-Anthony<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1386\" src=\"https:\/\/youngpeoplestheatre.org\/dramaschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Paulina-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina headshot\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paulina O\u2019Kieffe-Anthony is a Toronto writer, performer, arts educator and curator who has been teaching and performing across Toronto for the last 15+ years. A member of the Canadian League of Poets, her poetry appears in print in &#8220;Guerillas of the Word&#8221; and \u201cIf I Ran the School&#8221;, and &#8220;Feminism: Revisit, Revise, Revolutionize&#8221;. Her work has also been featured in media on Bell Fibe TV, Huffington Post Canada, AfroGlobal TV, Metro Morning and CBC Morning. Notable performances include a TEDx Talk feature (2019), feature performer at When Sister\u2019s Speak (March 2017 and 2019) and competing on the finals stage at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (October 2015 &amp; 2017). In February 2020, an excerpt of her co-written play, <em>How Jab Jab Saved the Pretty Mas<\/em>, was featured on stage at the Piece of Mine&#8217;s Black Women in Theatre Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina has been using spoken word to teach young people in a number of communities about self-education, expression and empowerment. 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