OUR TEAM

LORI PITTS

Artistic Director - Ally Theatre Company
Founder - Voices Unbarred
Facilitator

Lori Pitts (she/her) is a facilitator, Theatre of the Oppressed Joker, teaching artist, actor, director, and improvisor in the DMV area who is passionate about creating platforms for voices that often go unheard. She is the Artistic Director of Ally Theatre Company, and the founder of Voices Unbarred, a program of Ally Theatre that collaborates with people impacted by incarceration, artists, and policy organizations to reimagine the prison system and advocate for change using Theatre of the Oppressed. Pitts also teaches and performs regularly with Young Playwrights’ Theater and has most recently been seen on stage with Second City, Rorschach Theatre, The Welders, and Washington Improv Theatre. She completed Georgetown University’s Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate program, is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Culture Caucus with The Kennedy Center, a graduate of the 202Creates Fellowship, a graduate of the Movement Matters Community Organizing & Popular Education Institute, and a four-time recipient of the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program grant through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for her work within the community.

MADDY MUSTIN

Organizational Coordinator

Maddy Mustin (She/Her) is thrilled to be joining Voices Unbarred as the Organizational Coordinator! A recent graduate from The Catholic University of America in May 2023 with a B.A. in English and minors in Drama and Media Studies, she is excited to keep exploring the D.C. theatre scene and aid the promotion of the performing arts as a means for education, social justice, and change. She most recently attended the 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, performed in Allyson Currin’s Rejoicing in Broken Pieces at Catholic University, and assistant stage managed with Monumental Theatre Co. When she isn't working, Maddy enjoys spending her free time with creative writing, new coffee shops, and spontaneous visits to the National Mall and local theatres!

NICOLE KAMMER

Intern

Nicole Kammer (She/Her) is thrilled to be interning at Voices Unbarred this summer. Originally from Minnesota, she is a rising sophomore at Davidson College, majoring in Theatre and Political Science. With experience in acting, directing, stage managing, and tech, she is eager to explore the administrative and public policy aspects of theatre. Outside of theatre, Nicole enjoys reading, painting, photography, and sending incredibly long voice memos to her friends.

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ELLE MARIE SULLIVAN

Leadership Team
Facilitator

Elle Marie Sullivan (she/her) is a theatre artist based in Washington, DC. Some of the companies she has performed with are Washington National Opera, National Ballet of Canada, Shakespeare Opera Theatre, Anacostia Playhouse, and Annapolis Shakespeare Theatre. As a teaching artist Elle has worked with Round House Theatre, Educational Theatre Company, Encore Stage and Studio, Bach to Rock, and InterAct Story Theatre. Elle is also a registered yoga instructor (RYT-200) with training in trauma informed yoga. Elle loves working with Voices Unbarred and is excited to continue to grow with the company.

DEVIN SMITH

Community Advocate Coordinator

Devin D. Smith (he/him) is the founder and CEO of Ship and Anchor LLC, and is a business consultant and strategist passionate about inclusion and working with other entrepreneurs and leaders to bring innovative ideas to life. Devin began his career in academia, which remains one of his chief passions. However, after a twist of fate landed him in prison, Devin found himself unearthing latent gifts in business and entrepreneurship. Upon returning from prison and completing a Bachelors in Sociology, and a minor in Nonprofit Studies and Social Entrepreneurship from North Carolina State University, Devin migrated to Washington, D.C., where he was eager to apply this knowledge to serve communities in need. Overcoming adversity, trauma and prison incarceration, Devin has learned to leverage both tragic and triumphant life experiences as his superpowers. In addition to writing, he uses his mantra "what's your anchor," as a guide for achieving personal and professional actualization no matter where you are in life.

ALLISON FRISCH

Voices Out Loud Director

Allison Frisch (she/her) is a Director, Actor, and Dancer in Washington, DC. She is an alumna of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, where she recently completed Joy Zinoman’s Directing intensive. She holds a BFA in Theatre and Minor in Dance from Stephens College. Directing Credits: Dear America (Voices Unbarred), Pride of Doves (Action to the Word Theatre Company); Acting Credits: Princess Margaret* (Thelma Theatre), Suffrage Plays (Venus Theatre), Fools (Parlor Room Theater) Dance Credits: Dark Night Showcase, Spring Dance (KG Dance); Upcoming: Dhana and the Rosebuds (Ally Theatre). *DCMTA Best of 2015 - Best Lead Actress in a Professional Play.

SISI REID

Facilitator
Voices Out Loud Director
Ally Production Director

Sisi Reid (she/fae/they) is an internationally touring multidisciplinary theater maker, dancer, and director from Norfolk, Virginia and Wheaton, Maryland who practices theater as tools for collective liberation, healing, and youth empowerment. Sisi’s art is grounded in the values of justice, community building, and education instilled by her family and upbringing. As a creative visionary, Sisi is an actor, writer, playwright, dancer, director, spoken word poet, Emcee, facilitator, teaching artist, educator (including English language arts) and an applied theater practitioner.

Sisi is a graduate of University of Maryland and The Theater Lab’s Life Story Institute. She has taught and performed in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Colombia, London, and Brazil. As an applied theater practitioner, she has facilitated theatre workshops in prisons with University of Michigan’s Prison Creative Arts Project, Voices Unbarred, and University of Rio's Theater in Prison program. Sisi was a Producing Playwright of The Welders 3.0 (2019 - 2023) and a board member of the Pride Youth Theatre Alliance (2018 - 202). She is a Maryland States Arts Council (MSAC) Independent Artist Awardee, Teaching Artist on the MSAC Roster, and an ArtEquity BIPOC Leadership Circle Alumni. Sisi continually curates and facilitates joyFULL spaces that are queer, Black and abundant. She is the founder of Black Joy Creatives DC and Soul Shine Theater Garden, a performing arts community that gathers, produces dance-theater plays, and teaches performing arts centered in embodied practices of joy, play, travel, healing arts, and liberation. As a playwright, her plays have been performed with The Welder 3.0, Imagination Stage’s Pegasus Ensemble, University of Maryland’s Second Season and Next Now Festival; Young Playwright’s Theatre’s Silence is Violence: LGBTQ + You and Silence is Violence: Who Earth Is This DC?, and Previous DC director credits: Macbeth (The Theater Lab), The Rainbow Fish (Anacostia Playhouse), Indefinition and Respirations (FRESSH Inc.’s Next To Kin Festival), Assistant Director: Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi’s KLYTMNESTRA: An Epic Slam Poem (Theater Alliance), and Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moore (Anacostia Playhouse). IG: @soulshinetheatergarden

ANGUM-PERI (AP) CHECK

Facilitator

Inner Voices Co-Director

Angum-Peri (AP) (they/them) is a cultural worker, organizer, multi-medium artist, Lover of Freedom and Cats, and nonlinear Being. Their first love is theater, and they have been acting since 3 years old. They discovered theater of the oppressed in college and fell in love with it as a medium for powerful storytelling that creates openness for transformation individually and collectively, and for building people power. They have about nine years of experience organizing and training in the co-creation of freer spaces and addressing issues impacting the Black Diaspora, culture, land, legal, gender, and sexual justice, and overall Being.

Angum-Peri has worked with various theater of the oppressed formations and is very excited to be a co-facilitator for Voices Unbarred. Their politics are rooted in the abolition of oppressive systems, and healing justice informed by Indigenous African ways of Being with the land, spirituality, and radical love and community. Co-facilitating with the men and women directly impacted by this cruel practice is more than just creating a performance; this is a process of healing and personal transformation that impacts and aims to shift public transformation through policy and practices. The relationships Angum-Peri has built so far with this talented and amazing group have been nourishing, teaching AP, and pouring into them, and it is an absolute honor to share space. AP looks forward to seeing you all get to witness our Community Advocates' creative brilliance and take up their call to action!

BRIANNA LOSOYA-EVORA

Learning and Impact & Communications Volunteer

Brianna Losoya-Evora (she/her) is a Senior Associate at Pew Charitable Trusts, where she supports strategic planning across the Trusts' portfolios. She is a monitoring and evaluation specialist with over ten years of experience using data to promote evidence-based decision-making in development programming. Before working at Pew, Brianna joined SEAF's Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development in 2019 to strengthen its impact management efforts. She has also been a Senior Impact Analyst for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), where she oversaw ANDE's impact measurement activities and worked to track global trends in the support for entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Brianna speaks French and lived in Senegal for three years, where she served as a Program Officer for the UN's World Food Programme and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is particularly passionate about centering diversity, equity, and inclusion in program design and decolonizing international development.