Anu Yadav

Anu Yadav is a theater artist, facilitator, and cultural worker dedicated to poor people’s organizing, economic justice, and liberation. For over two decades, she has created solo and collective theatre work as vehicles for public dialogue on housing, healthcare, and poverty. Her work was featured in the documentaries CHOCOLATE CITY and WALK WITH ME, as well as media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Crisis, and MTV.  She was the 2019-2020 inaugural Creative Strategist Artist-in-Residence at the LA County Department of Mental Health. She is a Leadership Circle member of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at University of Southern California, 2024 Race Forward Housing, Land, and Justice Artist Fellow, and a 2023-2025 Dramatist Guild Foundation Catalyst Fellow.

As a facilitator, she applies arts-based tools for dialogue in a variety of community, civic, and organizational settings towards visioning, strategic planning, community engagement, team-building, and institutional change. Partners include the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute, Institute for Policy Studies, United Workers, the National League of Cities, and the state of Kansas Department of Commerce. She is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association, Dramatists Guild, We Cry Justice Movement Arts Collective at the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and holds an M.F.A. in Performance from University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently developing WE THE POOR, a musical.