COMIC: Finding my voice through dance

VPM | By Katie Monteleone, LA Johnson and Breena Nunez

Published August 19, 2022 at 9:52 AM EDT

Updated April 21, 2023

This comic, illustrated by Breena Nunez, is inspired by an interview with dancer and choreographer Camille A. Brown from TED Radio Hour’s episode The Artist’s Voice.

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About Camille A. Brown

Camille A. Brown is a dancer and choreographer who has worked on award-winning productions of Once On This Island, Jesus Christ Superstar Live on NBC and A Streetcar Named Desire, among others.

She is also the founder of Camille A. Brown & Dancers (CABD) that tours nationally and internationally. Her team has worked on productions of Mr. TOL E. RAncE and BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, as well as community engagement initiatives incorporating social dance.

Brown received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Katie Monteleone and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at [email protected].

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Katie Monteleone

Katie Monteleone is a producer for TED Radio Hour. She started out as an intern for the show in January 2019. After her internship, Monteleone began producing for Life Kit before returning to the TED Radio Hour team in October 2019 as a full-time producer.

For TED Radio Hour, she's produced sound-rich segments on a wide variety of subjects including TikTok star Alexis Nikole Nelson's adventures as a forager, archaeologist Alyssa Loorya's exploration of a 300-year-old farmhouse in Brooklyn and the 5,000 mile journey of a giant puppet named Amal.

Monteleone graduated from Colby College in 2018 where she studied theater and creative writing. In her free time, she loves to cook vegetarian food, listen to Broadway musical soundtracks and hang out with her dog Maple.

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