Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi

Dane Figueroa Edidi - Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, A Helen Hayes nominated actress, Author (Yemaya’s Daughters, Brew, Keeper, Incarnate, Wither, Bone, Solace, Hierodule, Baltimore: A Love Letter, Remains: A Gathering of Bones, The Blood of A Thousand Roots, For Black Trans Girls…,The Politics of Tears, and Infrastructure Of A Nation) Educator, A Helen Hayes Award Winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (2020), For Black Trans Girls…, Ghost/Writer), Advocate,a 3x Helen Hayes Award Nominated choreographer and co-editor of the Black Trans Prayer Book. She wrote episode 9 (Refuge) of Roundhouse Theatre’s Webseries Homebound, narrated the Netflix Documentary The Visions of Us, and played Patra in King Esther, and Dr. Grace Grace in I Need Space.