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Kaja Dunn

Associate Professor, Anti-Racist and Culturally Competent Practice


Kaja Dunn, is an intimacy professional, diversity consultant, and associate faculty at Theatrical Intimacy Education. Kaja is a member of SAG-AFTRA and an actor, director, and activist with performances in over 40 productions in 5 countries including Theatrical Outfit, Playmakers Rep, Moxie Theatre and others.


Current favorite intimacy work includes American Prophet (Arena Stage), Choir Boy (Denver Center and ACT Seattle) Harlem (Amazon), Strange Loop (Broadway, associate Intimacy Director), The Best Man, The Final Chapter (Peacock). She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s National Medallion for her work on theatre and race. She has published in several journals about race and theatre, intimacy and co-authored a chapter in Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance.

She has presented on issues of equity and diversity in theater for theaters and universities, Actors’ Equity Association as their racial consultant, The Women’s Theatre Festival, Blumenthal Performing Arts, MICHA, North Carolina Theatre Association (Keynote Panelist), Children’s Theatre Charlotte, Anti-Racism and Decolonization at University of London Goldsmiths, SETC and SETC Theatre Symposium, KCATF and The Association of Theatre in Higher Education, among other places. She is on the Executive Board of the Black Theatre Network and a former executive member of Black Theatre Association. She was recently interviewed in American Theatre Magazine around issues of Race and Theatre education. You can find out more at her website kajadunn.com.

Recent news:  

QC Nerve More than a passion project

Choir Boy, Denver Center of Performing Arts, Intimacy and Fight Choreographer

Strange Loop, Broadway, Associate Intimacy Director

This UNCC Professor Has Made Racial Equity in Theater Education Her Life’s Work

THEATRE PROFESSOR TO RECEIVE KENNEDY CENTER MEDALLION