Jennifer Cendaña Armas is an actor, dancer, singer, writer, violinist and community worker from NYC. She premiered skinimin12 at the 2004 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival and later featured it in the 2006 New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival at the Public Theater . She is a company member of the production We Got Issues, and is a feature contributor of the book of the same name. Other theatre credits include dancing with Urban Bush Women in Are We Democracy? (Brooklyn Museum of Art and Joe’s Pub), co-creator and performer in Mango Tribe’s Sisters in the Smoke (HERE Theatre and touring company) and Creation Myth (Henry Street Settlement/ABRON ARTS CENTER), The Vengeance of Mami Wata (Theater for a New City), Queens Theatre in the Park's Black Theatre Festival, Movement Choreographer- BLAK (HERE Theatre). Poetry features include: Lincoln Center’s La Casita, Joe’s Pub’s Urban Griots, and the Nuyorican Poets Café (NYC), World Stage and ‘da Poetry Lounge (L.A.), Lizard Lounge (Boston), Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (Houston), Harvard University (Cambridge), Ladyfest Bristol, Speakeasy and Poetry Café (London), Poetry Vandals Present...(Newcastle, UK). Film: Beneath the Surface. TV: Spoken (Black Family Channel), Word (FreeSpeech TV), Curvations (PSA). Publications include: NYU Review for Law and Social Change, AWOL Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, X Magazine, Monsoon.
In addition to creating and performing, Jennifer has extensively organized and taught political arts and activist workshops in schools, prisons and community based organizations throughout the country. She is a member of the Mango Tribe and Blackout Arts Collective families. Her self-published book, My Mouth May Not Know the Words But Everything Else Understands, is currently in limited release.