Biography
Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones is the founder and creative director of art company, Spiritual is Political. She is a playwright living in Philadelphia, working on her current musical, The Messenger, with 5th Avenue Theatre. Her most recent work has been in the political arts field as director of organization, In Solidarity (formerly Women of Color in Solidarity), where she has traveled throughout North America and the Carribeans to engage in dialogue and education about the intersections of arts & politics. The arts have been a part of her life since she was a child, ranging from professional theatre, dance companies, to film director and producer. Cheyenne loves capturing conversations, the imagination, and the ways history cycles itself in our culture, language, clothing, and political beliefs. Their politic is one that centers the narratives, experiences, and visions of Blackness beyond a monolith. As a creative director they center the breadth of Black Indigenous Queer Technologies. Technologies that disrupt white dominant concepts of time, gender, borders, and extreme systems of punishment that have altered a natural order. She is inspired by space that has yet to be discovered or captured. She is currently partnering with Cambridge 22City-View as producer and director to revamp their 2018 show Women in Conversation. Cheyenne’s work has been featured on TEDx, The Void Academy, CRWN Magazine, Medium Magazine and The Queens Museum to name a few.
