Yasmin is an actor, dancer, director, and playwright with a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon. She's a mixed Black and Punjabi queer mother of three, raised in LA (Tongva) and Portland (Multnomah).

They are currently writing two plays centering matriarchs in their family, she dances regularly with Afro Dance Seattle and dani tirrell's Soul Line Dance, and is eager for new acting opportunities! Her personal artistic mission is clear: She wants to center and amplify the stories of historically exploited and excluded People and Place. They want to make theatre that tells the Truth as grief ritual and liberation — theatre that slows time for JOY and casts spells of radical imagination. She wants her work to have some measure of medicine for the Everything Crisis.

Acting, dancing, and singing were the hallmarks of her childhood. After graduating in 2003, they made a deliberate choice to step away — not from theatre, but into the wider world that would give me something worth bringing back to the stage. Over the past two decades, she has immersed herself in liberation theology, pedagogy and youth mentorship, land tending, deep Nature-connection and decolonial praxis, intersectional justice and solidarity, reindigenizing to ancestral lifeways, critical race theory and disability justice, queer theory and womanism, geopolitics and anti-imperialist history. As a guest on Duwamish land, she humbly apprentices to Western Red Cedar, Bald Eagle, and Orca. These aren't footnotes on their résumé. They are the lens through which she acts and directs, the questions she brings into a rehearsal room, and the reason she writes the plays she writes.

The legendary Toni Morrison wrote in her essay titled "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear", quote: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal (end quote).

In the midst of existential grief, it's tempting to treat Art as a frivolity. Yasmin believes it is our shared responsibility to make sure food, shelter, water, care and healthy habitat is accessible to all. AND that everyone also needs the ancestral practice of storytelling. Artists must bravely engage in the most relevant, accessible, and medicinal ways for our collective healing. Ashé--let’s get to work!