Curriculum
Vitae (Highlighted)
Awards
2006
Community Service Award, Housing Works Inc.
2004
Open Society Institute NYC Community Fellowship Grantee
2002-2004
Artist In Residency, Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2001-2002
Space Grantee, Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2001
Champion, the Annual House of Xavier “Glam Slam” by Def-Jam Poet, Emanuel
Xavier
2001
Community Service Award, the Audre Lorde Project
Select Press/Political Commentator
2007-02
Frequent On-Air Guest, OUTFM –WBAI LGBT Show, Pacifica Radio
2007-02
On-Air Guest, Wake-Up Call –WBAI am News Radio Show, Pacifica Radio
2007 Left Turn Magazine –
cover story
2007-03 femmenoir –www.femmenoir.net
2006 SF Bay Times
2006 L.A. Theatre
2005-02 Gender Talk –Syndicated Radio Show
2005–03 In the Life – PBS LGBT Newsmagazine
2004-03 VelvetPark – National lesbian magazine
2004 The Advocate – National magazine
2004 The Village Voice
2003 National Pacifica Radio, Featured Interviews on various syndicated
programs
2003 The Boston Globe – Review of B4T, “Actor keeps edgy play
well centered”
2003 Sable – www.sablemagazine.com
Featured Panelist/Guest Lecturer/Master of Ceremonies
2008
Panelist, Gender Identity in the African-American Community, CD Forum, Seattle,
WA
2008
Lecturer, Out to Lunch Series, The University of
Connecticut,, Storrs, CT
2007 Plenary Speaker, Translating Identity Conference,
Burlington, Vermont
2007 Keynote Speaker, The Capital District Gay
and Lesbian Community Council Community Awards Dinner, Albany NY
2007 Plenary Speaker, United States Social Forum, Liberating Gender &
Sexuality featuring Betita Martinez, Mia Mingus, Suzanne Pharr, Loretta Ross,
and Andrea Smith
2007 Keynote Speaker, Eastern Oregon University
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of Oregon
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of Maryland, College Park
2007 Keynote Speaker, Building Unity Conference,
Madison, WI
2007 Keynote Speaker, Trans Week at Yale University
2006 Panelist/Performer, Michelle Tea’s Radar Reading featuring Dorothy Allison, Kate
Bornstein, and Nalo Hopkinson, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2006 Master of Ceremonies, L-Word Season 4 Premiere, NYC
2006 Keynote Speaker, Women’s Month University of Albany,
SUNY
2006
Keynote Speaker, 12th Annual Alaska Pride Conference
2005
Master of Ceremonies, Interactivist Info Exchange:
Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference
2005
Keynote Speaker, Transforming Feminism Conference, SUNY New Paltz
2005
Speaker, Eastern
Regional Womyn of Colour for Equality Conference, African Asian Latina
Lesbian United
2004
Keynote Speaker, Women’s Month, Merrimack College, MA
2004 Keynote Speaker, National Arts Festival, Vassar College
2004 Keynote Speaker, LGBT Pride Month, Brown University, RI
2003 A Trans-National Dialogue: Transgender Activism in New York & Latin
America, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, NYC
2003 National Day of Silence, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2002 North Atlantic Training
Institute for Sexual Health Educators Retreat, NY
2002 Barriers to Healthcare for the Transgenders, Bellevue
Hospital, NYC
2000 Making the Links – LGBT Activists Response after 911, NYC
2000 New York City LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration
2000 QPOC (Queer People of Color) Conference, Smith College, MA
2000 Trans/Forming Gender: Sager Symposium, Swarthmore College, PA
Contributing
Writer/Essayist
2007 Suspect
Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing, edited by Emanuel Xavier
2007 Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of
Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing, Other Countries Press
2007 Marxism, Reparations and the
Black Freedom Struggle, World View Forum Publishing
2004 From the Inside Out: Radical Gender
Transformation, FTM and Beyond, Manic D Press
2003 The War in Colombia: Made in the USA, International Action Center
1999 Rhapsody Magazine
1997 The Evergreen Chronicles
1997 Virgin Territory 2,edited by Shar Rednour, Masquerade Books
1996 Does Your Mama Know? Edited by Lisa Moore, Red Bone
Theatrical
Productions of B4T (Before Testosterone)
Written by &
Starring Imani Henry
2007
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2007
Creative Alliance Patterson Park Theater Baltimore, MD
2006
Gender Odyssey Conference, Seattle, WA
2006
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2006
Fresh Meat Theatre Festival 2006, San Francisco, CA
2006
Buddies in Bad Times Theater, Toronto, ON
2006
Tranny Road Show, Performances at University of Pittsburgh, Oberlin College
& University of Michigan
2006
The Milwaukee Gay Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
2006
Highways Performance Space, LA, CA
2005
Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, NYC
2005
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2005
Smith College, Northhampton, MA
2005
University of California, Santa Barbara
2004
HomoAGoGO LGBT Arts Festival, Olympia, WA
2004
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2004
Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003
The Theatre Offensive, Boston, MA – as part of a National Performance
Network Residency
2003 New York University, NYC
2003
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2003
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada
2003 The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance, NYC
2003 American Multicultural Student Agency
2003
Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Weekend, Toronto, Canada
2003 True Spirit Conference, Washington, D.C.
2003
Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NYC
2002 WOW Theatre/Café, NYC
2002 Fifty Years After: Christine Jorgenson’s Legacy Symposium, Center for
Lesbian & Gay Studies, City University of New York, NYC
2002 Creating Change Conference, National Conference of the National Gay
& Lesbian Task Force, Portland, OR
2002 Fourth International Drag King Extravaganza, Columbus, OH
Theatrical
Productions of Living in the Light
Written by & Starring Imani Henry
2007
Fresh Meat Transgender Theatre arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2006
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, Performances in Iceland, Greenland, Finland
& The Faroe Islands
2004
Griot Artists of Color Theatre Festival, The WOW Café Theatre, NYC
2004 The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NYC
Solo Performances & Readings
2007
Dignitude, Dixon Place, NYC
2007
Trans Performance
Space - Los
Angeles Pride
2005
Queerin’ Queens, 3rd Annual LGBT Pride Celebration
2004
The Written Word, NYC Black LGBT Pride, Harlem, NY
2004 Excerpted Work: poetry and performance, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2004 Excerpted Work: poetry and performance, Trans Health Festival, Phil, PA
2003 The 16th Annual LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration, NYC
2003 Homotext, Dixon Place, NYC
2003 Balikbayan, NYC
2003 The Moth: Urban Storytelling , "The Body", curated by
Joyce Maynard, NYC
2002 MIX NYC: The 16th Annual New York Lesbian and Gay
Experimental Film/Video Festival, NYC
2002 BAXTen Awards, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY
2002 OutWrite New York, National Writers Union, NYC
2001 Sept 29th Stop War and End Racism Rally, Washington D.C
2000 Gender Splendor Institute, National Conference of the National Gay
& Lesbian Task Force, Oakland, CA
1999 Spoken Word Jam, Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY
1997 Does Your Mama Know Book Tour, Boston, NYC, Washington DC
Ensemble
Performances
2003 The Strong Go Crazy (A work-in-progress written by Henry), Brooklyn Arts
Exchange, NYC
2003
Godfrey in Godfrey’s Moon, The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
2000 The Fraud by Susana Cook, WOW Café Theatre, NYC
1999
“The Angel” in Conga Guerilla Forest by Susana Cook, WOW, NYC
1999 Hot Tamale by Susana Cook, WOW, NYC
1997 “Big Red” in Frisco Café by Renita Martin, Center Stage, Boston