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Judy Braha (Director) has been a director, actor, teacher and artist for social justice for over four decades.   Long-time head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater, her credits include theaters and universities throughout New England and beyond.  With a commitment to raising consciousness around the power of the arts as activism, Judy collaborates with Andre de Quadros in the BU College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project, teaching incarcerated students in Massachusetts’ prisons and jails. They also have worked together within the BU community, teaching the socially conscious Collaborative Arts Incubator and the groundbreaking series Race, Prison, Justice, Arts.  

As a director, Judy’s work often has concern for human rights at its center: Golda’s Balcony (NEW REP), To Kill A Mockingbird  (Gloucester Stage Company), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (Central Square Theater), Othello,  I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), The Oil Thief + Deported, a dream play (Boston Playwrights Theater), Our Class, Our Country’s Good and The Exonerated at BU/School Of Theater and the new work Mr. Fullerton (Great Barrington Public Theater and Gloucester Stage Company).   Currently, a new solo work about the feminist, suffragist, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It, and the East Coast premiere of Things I Know To Be True at Great Barrington Public Theater where Judy is honored to be an Associate Artist.    A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Judy is also proud to have been a founding board member of Stage Source, New England Theater’s service organization committed to connecting theaters, artists and their communities.