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Jamila ‘Jai’ Joseph is the recipient of the joint mentorship with Playwright’s Workshop Montreal<\/a> for 21-22.<\/p>\n

Jamila ‘Jai’ Joseph<\/strong> is a Montreal based interdisciplinary artist with her primary mediums being dance performer 20+yrs\/choreographer 10+yrs, self taught emerging singer 15yrs\/song writer 15yrs, emerging theatre artist 3yrs. A past recipient of Black Theatre Workshop\u2019s Victor Phillips award in 2002 Jamila has continued performing, creating, and learning, telling
\nher stories, and sharing her expressions throughout her work. In 2015, Jamila started JaiDanse, a dance facilitation\/dance performance company and has produced and co-produced shows both for stage and theatre at local venues around the city. Between 2017 – 2019 Jamila has had the pleasure of joining the casts of How Black Mothers Say I Love you<\/em>, written by Trey Anthony (Black
\nTheatre Workshop 2019) & Nicole Brooke’s a Cappella \u201cmusical odyssey\u201d Obeah Opera (ASAH Productions 2019) in Toronto, with her first stage role being back in 2017 where she portrayed ‘Lady in Purple<\/em>‘ in the Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls<\/em>\u2026 (McGill University’s Tuesday Night Caf\u00e9 Theatre) and again in 2018 as an \u201cEncore presentation…\u201d produced by the cast (Les 6 Productions).
\nAs we all came to stand still in the last 2 years, Jamila used the time to study her crafts, sharpen her creative tools and has added some new skills to her toolbelt. Currently, she is choreographing for theatre (TBD) and is also writing script and song\/working on her own Performance Theatre piece entitled Wild Roots.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11556,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"role":[155],"cities":[137],"data_type":[141],"joint_mentorship":[353],"class_list":["post-11548","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artists-21-22","program-studio-residencies","discipline-performing-arts","discipline-theatre","role-artist","cities-montreal-en","data_type-artist","joint_mentorship-playwrights-montreal-pwm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJamila 'Jai' Joseph — MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/jamila-jai-joseph\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jamila 'Jai' Joseph — MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jamila ‘Jai’ Joseph is the recipient of the joint mentorship with Playwright’s Workshop Montreal for 21-22. 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