Democracy As Performance; Mapping as Embodiment.

CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC LEADERAaron LandsmanNew York-based playwright, performer, teacher, and organizer. Founded Perfect City in 2016 after more than a decade of work at the intersection of theater and civic life.Read moreRead lessHis awards include a Creative Capital Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ASU Gammage Residency, and a Princeton Arts Fellowship. He is the co-author of The City We Make Together (University of Iowa Press, 2022), a Lecturer at Princeton, and a longtime collaborator with Elevator Repair Service. His theater works have been presented in New York, across the US, and internationally — from punk clubs in Serbia to government chambers in five American cities. His practice begins with a question he returns to again and again: What happens when you give people a room, a script, and permission to speak?CONSULTING DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPSEbony Noelle GoldenA theatrical ceremonialist, culture worker, public scholar, and entrepreneur. A city-born, southern, Black woman and proud descendant of self-emancipated sharecroppers.Read moreRead lessEbony brings to Perfect City an approach to art-making rooted in Black women’s activism, experimental performance, and the socio-spiritual power of community. Since 2009, she has worked with more than 100 justice-oriented organizations through her consulting practice, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative. In 2020, she established Jupiter Performance Studio to practice and perform Black diasporic, spiritual, and cultural traditions. Her work venerates the everyday rituals of southern Black folks — made visible through site-specific ceremonies, visual poems, and collaborative practices that believe in liberation as both a destination and a method.MEMBER & COMMUNITY PROGRAMSTiffany ZorrillaBorn and raised on the Lower East Side of New York City by first-generation Dominican parents, an experience that shaped her deep connection to community, culture, and care.Read moreRead lessTiffany is bilingual in English and Spanish and holds an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Practice from CCNY. Rooted in community-based work and the arts, she is passionate about creativity, advocacy, and youth development, and has spent her career supporting individuals navigating systemic barriers. Her approach is informed by her experience working alongside people managing mental health needs, as well as immigrant communities and artists. In her free time, Tiffany enjoys making ceramics, engaging in performance and visual art, running, karaoke, and spending time with friends — often finding inspiration through movement, creativity, and community.MEMBER & CO-CREATOR, THE CATCALLING PROJECTJahmorei SnipesAn actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, Jahmorei is a born and raised New Yorker who currently resides in Harlem, New York.Read moreRead lessA profound care for her city and the world around her as a core throughline, Jahmorei was introduced to artistic activism in her teen years. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting with a minor in political science in 2018 from Marymount Manhattan College, she continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She currently works as a NYC actor, member of Perfect City, a co-creator of The Catcalling Project, and teaching artist in NYC. In June of 2024 she performed her original work PILLAR, a series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood at the Center for Performance Research. Previous theatre credits include On Strivers’ Row, A Servant of Two Masters, The Hysteria Plays: Deliverance and Astronaut (Or Frantic Action) at Dixon Place, Henry V at Summit Rock, Almost Maimed at The Tank, and Project: Human Better’s The Ladies’ Room at The PIT as Sojourner Truth.MEMBER & WRITERNadia MisirA coolie gyal who was born, raised and is still living in South Ozone Park, Queens. She writes about what it means to be a descendant of indentured servants sent to British Guiana.Read moreRead lessNadia writes about her close relationship with her grandparents, growing up Guyanese in Queens and the way histories of oppression reveal themselves in unexpected, mundane and intimate moments. She received her BA in English from SUNY Oswego and an MA in American studies from Columbia University. She also holds an MFA in fiction writing from Queens College, CUNY. She enjoys facilitating community creative writing and visual arts workshops. Off the page, Nadia is an aspiring urban farmer and currently a student in Farm School NYC’s urban agriculture certificate program. She puts her farm school learnings into practice as a newbie gardener at Paradise Community Garden in Jamaica, Queens. She helps care for rain gardens and street trees as a Green Guardian volunteer with Guardians of Flushing Bay. Nadia is in transit more often than she is at home. Her tuxedo cat, Keto, is her furry alarm clock.