Creative Collaborator

Lucretia's life and career has been centered in sharing a sense of joy and wonder in the spaces they inhabit. Originally from the Washington, DC area, Lucretia's career in the arts began as an actress, activist, and teaching artist in New York. Lucretia has been a collaborator, performer and facilitator of activism workshops nationally and internationally with the acclaimed Guerilla Girls on Tour. Returning to the DC area, they continued their work as a teaching artist and workshop facilitator for over 10 years with several arts organizations including Creative Kids, Dramatic Solutions, Round House Theatre, Imagination Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Young Playwright's Theatre, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Lucretia helped to create museum theatre programming for the Smithsonian's Discovery Theater as the theatre coordinator for 5 years. As the elementary school program coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library she managed the Emily J. Folger Children's Shakespeare Festival, family programs, and the Shakespeare Steps Out school residency program for over 5 years as well as planned and coordinated the Folger's first Elementary Educators Conference on Teaching Shakespeare. Their work is published in Arts Integration: Teachers and Teaching Artists as Agents of Change, Intellect Books 2016.

After moving to Richmond in 2012, Lucretia has been deeply embedded in the theatre arts community. As an actor, they have performed in several productions with Firehouse Theatre, Richmond Triangle Players, Theatrelab, and Quill Theatre. Lucretia joined the team at SPARC as a teaching artist, camp coordinator and director of several productions. They are the curriculum director for Spectrum Queer Youth Theatre, a theatre program dedicated to advocating for and giving full expression to voices of LGBTQ+ youth. Following their call to work with individuals in the healing arts, Lucretia founded Joyful Muse Co, LLC in 2020 to provide transformational life coaching to creatives, mindfulness training to youth and their caretakers and to continue publishing their writing on personal development and empowerment.