Larraine Brown is a writer, activist and organizer.

Larraine has founded and facilitated a number of collaborative experimental theater activist projects, and she works with many individuals and groups including; ‘Playing in Traffic’, a group that was formed to push the bounds of theater and expression to address themes of social and political concern; The Performance Project housed in a small theater studio space and developed to showcase fresh perspectives and new works of social interest; The Fifteen Minute Festival, an international playwriting competition with the aim of

showcasing original voices and visions specifically targeting those communities that are underrepresented in the theater; The oUtCaSt PlayErs, an ongoing theater group of adults, whose lives are affected by literacy issues, and who create and perform original pieces; Solo Mentor, a project that focuses on mentoring individuals, writer performers and their one and two person shows. A number of the resulting shows have toured New England, the US and Europe.

Larraine uses a wide variety of arts and organizing techniques to promote personal and social change, including those of renowned activist Saul Alinsky, revolutionary educator Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, and David Diamond’s Theatre for Living. Over the past twenty years she has developed a unique method of working with groups and individuals which frees natural voice, mines creative process, and produces profound movement.