Quenna Lené Barrett is a Chicago-based theater artist + practitioner, developing programs to amplify teen + community voice and hold space to rehearse, tell, and change the stories of their lives. She is a company member with the ICAH’s For Youth Inquiry, Associate Artist with Pivot Arts, and is the Associate Director of Education at the Goodman Theatre. As a director and performer, she has worked with a number of companies including Sojourn,
The Theatre School at DePaul, Free Street, Pegasus, Court, eta, and Theater Unspeakable. Continuing to build the world she wants to see/live in, she is currently re-writing the Declaration of Independence as a participatory play.