Contact:
kamara@kamarathomas.com
Kamara is available for performances, site-specific commissions, collaborations, teaching and speaking engagements.
Kamara Thomas (she/her) is a Durham, NC-based songspeller, ritualist, and multidisciplinary storyteller working at the intersection of social practice, music, theater and film. In the pursuit of surprising storytelling forms and the re/invention of collective mythologies, Kamara's site-specific productions activate galleries, stages, and public spaces and are multi-faceted– weaving together music/theatre performance, land-based ritual, communal artmaking and oral history, as well as documentary, narrative, and experimental film.
Kamaraa also spearheads Country Soul Songbook, a curation/production team rooted in the mission to amplify and archive BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices in American roots music and culture.
As a recent Princeton Arts Fellow and lecturer, Kamara taught multidisciplinary storytelling and presented her storyworks Xulgaria and Tularosa: An American Dreamtime, which received a 2022 MAPFund grant.
In addition to Princeton, iterations of Tularosa have been featured at Santa Fe Art Institute and Boulder Museum of History. Film/video iterations include The Death of Nebuchadnezzar (shot in the White Sands Desert) and Good Luck America, which distilled work from an agitprop street-theatre performance that activated public spaces throughout downtown Durham.
