I'm a poet, performing artist & documentarian
hailing from Chicago, based in New York City.
I develop interdisciplinary projects that merge performance, memoir, music, and visual art. My practice explores Black and Queer history, cultural memory, faith, and the supernatural, creating work that moves between the personal, political, and spiritual while reclaiming the space between the sacred and the profane.
Services
Language & Creative Writing
Poetry, memoir, essays, and experimental writing that explore faith, memory, lineage, and the supernatural.
Theatre Artists
Performance-making, dramaturgy, directing, and interdisciplinary works that merge ritual, storytelling, music, and live experience.
Documentary & Filmmaking
Documentary, short-form film, and visual storytelling projects centered on cultural memory, identity, community, and historical reckoning.
Featured Work
"Quadria; South of What We Mean When We Say Rush Gardens" - Playwriting
Testimonials
Irvin Mason Jr; Director
"One of the most insightful, generous, and artistically rigorous collaborators I have encountered... Brent Thomas possesses a profound understanding of story—not just on an intellectual level, but on an emotional and spiritual one as well.
a.k payne;
playwright
"Brent Thomas' presence in our creative room was nothing short of profound. Their practice: a fusion of forms, a multimodal expanse that engaged Black memories and futures"
Sebastian Moya,
writer & professor
"Any project in his hands will be taken seriously—not only as art that warrants rigor, but as craft that evolves through revision and care.”
