HAYDEE “HR.” SOUFFRANT

(Technical Director) is a Chicago-based Haitian American teaching artist, writer and maker. Her work weaves performance, critical race and radical healing theory to probe the intersections of race, trauma healing and cultural memory through storytelling and creative writing. souffrant's literary work has been featured in ​Hair Trigger Issue

41,​ ​Sixty Inches from Center, Medium.​ Her performance and production work has been featured at The Whitney Biennale under the Dance Diaspora Collective, Links Hall @ Constellation, Threewalls at Navy Pier, Stage 773, Comfort Station Chicago, Theater on the Lake, and other venues in and around Chicagoland.

As an arts administrator, souffrant’s work through arts programming, facilitation and creative writing workshops highlights the connection between spaces of empathy, healing and social justice for people of color. She's excited to be in collaboration DQT on this production of ​Hamlet.