For Bad Hats: CREATOR - The Lobster Who Cried Person - new bad ideas (2021)

Germaine Konji (she/ her) is a Kenyan-Canadian actor, singer, writer and director. Her artistic voice lives where the theatrical, cultural, and political intersect. She is a co-founder of The And, Stage Company; a not for profit creating theater opportunities for cis and trans women, as well as all non binary folks who are comfortable in a space that centres women. Germaine is one of Musical Stage Company’s 2020 Banks Prize award recipients, as well as a 2020 graduate of Sheridan's Music Theater Performance Program. There, she was awarded the Highest Achievement in Acting Performance, and Outstanding Contribution to the Canadian Music Theatre Project. During her studies, she worked as a researcher for a project investigating the decolonizing, and decentering of the American musical. She has continued her studies on the institutionalization of diversity and the maintenance of a dominant culture as they interact with music theatre performance and artistic practice this past school year, working at Sheridan as a Student liaison, Cultural Coach, and an anti-racist workshop facilitator.