Kristen Adele CalhounThe role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. These words from Toni Cade Bambara guide Kristen Adele Calhoun's work as a playwright, performer and organizer. She is the founding program director of ArtChangeUS and co-producer of InteFest, an intersectional arts and ideas festival that began at the Harlem School of the Arts. She is the assistant editor of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, and her play, Canfield Drive, about Ferguson, the murder of Mike Brown and the revolutionary power of healing in the face of oppression, had a rolling world premiere in 2019 at the St. Louis Black Rep and The National Black Theatre Festival. Other plays include Black Cypress Bayou, The Oldest Town in Texas, Quilombo (5280 Artists Coop), With These Hands (Black American West Museum), and Ain't Gonna Let Nobody (NAACP). A native of Dallas, Texas, she is a graduate of the University of North Texas and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Kristen is currently reading, writing and living in Accra, Ghana. Read More Read Less