BIO

Monèt Noelle Marshall

Monèt Noelle Marshall is a director, playwright, actor, curator, cultural organizer, producer, filmmaker and consultant. She defines her artistic practice as “rehearsal for the relationship”; an invitation to be in better relationship with oneself first and everyone and everything outside of it. She centers Black women and Black queer folks in her work while creating acess points for all people. She is the founding Artistic Director of MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, a Black theater company in Raleigh, NC that centers Black playwrights of the South. Her work has been experienced in St. Ann’s Warehouse, Cape Fear Regional Theatre,Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Northstar Church of the Arts, Manbites Dog Theatre and Mordecai Historic Park. Most recently she has collaborated with African American Policy Forum on Gucci’s Chime for Change zine, Scalawag Magazine, NC Museum of Art, Historic Stagville, City of Raleigh, Columbia University and Hayti Heritage Center.

Marshall’s 2018 performance trilogy “Buy It Call It” earned her the 2018 Mary B. Regan Community Artist Fellowship and an Indy Weekly Arts Award.  She is a recipient of the 2020 Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant and an Ann Atwater Theatre Award. She has been named a “Theatre Worker to Watch” by American Theatre Magazine in January 2018 and has been featured in POLITICO, News & Observer, Flash Forward Podcast and WUNC’s The State of Things. And above all else, Marshall is most proud of being Robin and Bryan’s daughter.