Sadiqua Iman

Sadiqua Iman is a space holder, a director, youth advocate,  teacher,  healer, artist and an empathic human being. In Chicago she directed an all woman of color cast of “A Streetcar Named Desire” to raise awareness of same sex domestic violence and in Washington D.C. she created an original interactive performances around the Black Lives Matter Movement called “ We Be Dat”. In 2018 she premiered an original boi-lesque ballet called “Tail Feather” that explored female bodied masculinity at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. She then  directed August Wilson’s  Gem of the Ocean  at Chattanooga Theatre Centre in Tennessee January 2020. Sadiqua Iman earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership at Seattle University.  She has been awarded the National Arts Strategist Community Arts Fellowship, Theatre Communication Group Rising Leaders of Color Fellowship, and in 2019 the Seattle Arc Fellowship for Innovative Creations where the funds were used to open the new Afro-centered healing arts center Nile’s Edge Healing Arts.