Brianna Alexis Heath (she/her) is a Southern, womanist, interdisciplinary performance artist, writer, cultural curator, preacher, and creative consultant based in Atlanta, GA. Bri is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (BA) and is a recipient of the 2017 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Outstanding BA Thesis in Cultural Studies for her undergraduate thesis: “Bodies as Living, Twirling, Sacrifices: Performing Black Girlhood, Liturgical Dance, and the Black Church Tradition," and the inaugural 2021 Pitts Theology Library Student Research Award for her essay, "Frenzied H(e)avens: African American Post Exilic Realities in J'Sun Howard's aMoratorium." Bri served as a dance critic for See Chicago Dance, and has published her writing in touching:blackstudy, a zine from the becoming undisciplined collective at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a member of the Chicago-based, performance collective, Take Some Leave Some.

As a curator, Bri served as the co-director of the inaugural Black Arts Festival at Columbia College Chicago (2018) and D’atè Festival (2021) in Kaduna and Abuja, Nigeria. As a creative administrator, Brianna served as the co-founder and Executive Director of Duniate Culture Foundation (DCF) (2018-2023)—an arts and culture organization based in Kaduna, Nigeria, that seeks to affect economic and systemic change in African and African diasporic communities through the arts. As Executive Director, Brianna was instrumental in producing some of the organization’s flagship programs including the Young Emerging Artist Residency, the Dance Education & Entrepreneurial Practices Convention, 10X10 Global Artist Residency, and the Kaduna Performance Festival among other programs. Brianna is also the co-founder of the Art Resource Center, Kaduna (ARC)--the first cultural center of its kind dedicated to young, emerging artists, creative entrepreneurship, and community development in northern Kaduna.

Brianna’s curatorial and administrative practice is informed by her scholarly work as a performance studies scholar with a womanist theological swag. Through her work, Bri demonstrates a commitment to contributing to ongoing dialogues about the role of performance in Black women’s worldmaking and envisions her work as a bridge between the academy and the public. Her ultimate aim is to create spaces—both intellectual and physical—where performance, Black feminism, and religious praxis converge to inspire collective liberation and creative possibility.