Mariana Green is a hapa-Chamoru, genderqueer, multi-disciplined performance artist who has worked professionally in Chicago and across the states, honing their skills as a theater-maker, composer, vocalist and writer since 2014. Their storytelling-based, devised, and facilitation work focuses on shifting cultural frameworks to center healing bodies and minds from the lasting effects of colonization, dreaming up alternative, horizontal power structures, and working towards collective liberation. They are an active company member with For Youth Inquiry, helping design participatory theatre experiences to improve the wellbeing of youth; an emeritus company member with Playmakers Laboratory, teaching creative writing and performance workshops with young people in Chicago Public Schools; and a former company member of Erasing the Distance, a documentary theatre company destigmatizing and highlighting the nuances of mental health issues. Notable devising credits include Common Ground Voices / La Frontera Border Project, Learning 101 (Erasing the Distance), Thumbelina (Lifeline Theatre), Epic Tales from the Land of Melanin (LTC Sin Fronteras Festival, Free Street Theatre, and AATE). They are currently in the midst of writing a chapter for the upcoming book Into Abolition: A Guide to Liberatory Theatre-Making with co-author, Alyssa Vera Ramos. Tonight, in gratitude, they are excited to collaborate and share space with this incredible cohort of artists.