Brown | Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs in Acting and Directing

Siobhan Juanita Brown (Keesuty8ee Elm) is from Roxbury, MA and is a citizen of the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe. She currently resides on her ancestral homelands on the southern coast of
Cape Cod. Siobhan is a storyteller, playwright, director and guide. She holds a BFA degree in
Performing Arts and African American studies from Emerson College and is a graduate of the
A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Performance credits
include Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play at A.R.T., The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre
at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found with the Acting
Company, Medea and Antony and Cleopatra for Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Adrienne
Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of A Negro with Brandeis Theatre Company and several seasons with
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. She has worked extensively in arts education as the
former Associate Director of Education at Citi Performing Arts Center and Director of School &
Teacher Programs at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, as well as teaching for the Strand Theatre,
CSC, and the Acting Company. As a playwright Siobhan wrote A Piece of Silver based on
recorded conversations with her maternal and paternal grandmothers who are Mashpee
Wampanoag and African American, respectively. Siobhan is also a member of the creative team
for We Are The Land; an originally devised piece on Wampanoag history, culture and identity.
This poignant piece was performed in the UK at Theater Royal Plymouth in the spring of 2023
and at ArtsEmerson in Boston, MA in the fall.
She has also worked with the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project as a student of the
language since 2005. From 2013 to 2021 Siobhan was a language apprentice and member of the
founding teaching team of Weetumuw Katnuhtôhtâkamuq, the first Wôpanâak language and
culture immersion school providing academic and Indigenous education using a Montessori
pedagogy for decolonization and language reclamation. She is Montessori certified for ages 3 –
6.
Siobhan served as the Co – Indigenous Solidarity & Sovereignty Officer for the board of
Montessori for Social Justice from 2018 - 2020. She was also Co - Chair of the Representation,
Equity and Diversity team for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for
Region 1 representing the northeast. She is a current member of the Wampanoag Nation Dancers
and Singers, a decades old company rooted in Eastern Woodlands social songs and dances.