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Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a cultural organizer, equity & restorative justice practitioner, community-engaged artist, and educator who brings over two decades of experience facilitating creative and transformative process. She currently works with the social impact firm Create Forward in the areas of equity coaching, facilitation, and program design. As a consultant Chelsea has worked with Lincoln Center Education, The Brooklyn Library, CUNY Creative Arts Team, Earthjustice, SpaceWorks, Climate Nexus, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, The Human Root, Urban Bush Women, PURPOSE Productions, Working Theater, CORE Dance and Gibney Dance.
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She has also consulted with numerous public and private schools, and been a guest lecturer for The New School, New York University, Brown University, Wesleyan, UMASS Amherst, Columbia University and several other colleges and universities. In 2020 she joined the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies as a lecturer.
Her most recent community-engaged performance projects have been with Urban Bush Women, ACRE (Artists Co-Creating Real Equity), Cornerstone Theater Company, La Pocha Nostra, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Working Theater. Her artistic work has been produced by The Culture Project and LaMama ETC in New York, LA Women's Theater Festival, La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley CA), and 7 Stages (Atlanta GA) among many other venues.
Chelsea is an alumna of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and she received her M.F.A. in Theater and Contemporary Performance from the experimental program founded by Wendell Beavers, Barbara Dilley, and Steve Wangh at Naropa University. In 2016, she was selected to be part of the EMERGENYC cohort by NYU's Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Her writing has been published in Occupying Privilege: Conversations on Love, Race and Liberation, Steve Cannon’s A Gathering of the Tribes, The Charis Review and We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life.
Her most recent community-engaged performance projects have been with Urban Bush Women, ACRE (Artists Co-Creating Real Equity), Cornerstone Theater Company, La Pocha Nostra, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Working Theater. Her artistic work has been produced by The Culture Project and LaMama ETC in New York, LA Women's Theater Festival, La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley CA), and 7 Stages (Atlanta GA) among many other venues.
Chelsea is an alumna of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and she received her M.F.A. in Theater and Contemporary Performance from the experimental program founded by Wendell Beavers, Barbara Dilley, and Steve Wangh at Naropa University. In 2016, she was selected to be part of the EMERGENYC cohort by NYU's Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Her writing has been published in Occupying Privilege: Conversations on Love, Race and Liberation, Steve Cannon’s A Gathering of the Tribes, The Charis Review and We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life.