CCI 2.0 FELLOW

Pia Monique Murray is a choreographer, performer, installation artist, teacher, and creative producer. She has worked with nora chipaumire, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Camille A. Brown, Dianne McIntyre, Chanon Judson, Mame Diarra Speis, Monica L. Williams, and the late Blondell Cummings in various capacities. She performs contemporary dance with RAKIA! and leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC). Pia was a 2023 ICAC Artist-in-Residence with BRIC and University Settlement and an Urban Bush Women CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow/Associate Producer of Haint Blu by Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. 

As Bailey’s Cafe’s Producing Artistic Director she produces and curates As Quiet as It’s Kept, a multidisciplinary ethnography project about longtime residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is the Associate Producer of Urban Bush Women’s 40th Anniversary season, and co-creator of their Women Black Women+ Speak conversation series. Additionally Pia is Creative Producer of Kendra J. Bostock’s KJB Works company, and STooPS Annual Bed-Stuy Summer Festival.

PMMDC produces movement-based multidisciplinary performance works that include community engagement and audience interaction as an artistic practice, such as BLACK DAISIES, an interdisciplinary project that centers joy as political activism.