“Teaching SoulWork requires an advanced, multi-layered expertise and journey of training that is distinct from the training one undergoes as solely a performer or practitioner. Training in SoulWork as a creative practice alone does not qualify someone to teach. The art of teaching deserves the same rigorous attention and study as any other creative practice. Teaching SoulWork means doing SoulWork — not demonstratively, but pedagogically.“
~Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott
Tiana Kaye Blair is a director, actor, educator, and culture worker based in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex, and the first artist to become certified to teach SoulWork. Her expertise as a SoulWork instructor includes acting, singing, and community engagement, as well as a movement training focus which she developed in collaboration with Dr. Truscott. Her directing credits include: Spell #7, Dutchman, Mlima’s Tale, Libra Season, Working: A Musical, Hurt Village, Rage, and Twelfth Night The Musical. Some of her acting credits as a member of the Dallas Theater Center’s (DTC) include: penny candy, Steel Magnolias, In The Heights, The Great Society, Hair, and The Mountaintop. Blair is also a member of Progress Theatre, an international touring ensemble committed to using art to encourage social consciousness, cross-community dialogue and cultural awareness amongst audiences diverse in race, age and spiritual background. She is proud to serve the Southern Methodist University Department of Theater, teaching SoulWork as a Professor of Practice of Acting and Movement. Professor Blair holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theater from Prairie View A&M University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Southern Methodist University. Artist Website
Elizabeth Harris is a performer and writer of Jamaican ancestry originally from Roosevelt/Long Island, NY and currently, married with two children and based in North Carolina. She is a graduate of Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA; has a BFA in Theatre from New York University with a minor in Africana Studies; an MFA in Acting from Columbia University; and a MA in Mental health Counseling from University of Colorado. Elizabeth was a founding member of Progress Theatre with Dr. Truscott and was one of SoulWork’s earliest trainees and practitioners. While pursuing a career in Acting in Los Angeles, she taught at USC’s Neighborhood Academic Achievement Program and tutored marginalized youth and children with other nonprofit organizations. Internationally, she served with Seeds for hope in Kiberia, Kenya creating a dramatic presentation to empower girls beyond stereotypes. Elizabeth is studying to be a registered drama therapist at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, a mental health counselor at the University of Colorado, Denver; and a Certified SoulWork facilitator. Arts Therapist Website
To apply for and begin the certification process, completion of a minimum of 1 year or 300 hours of training as a performer and/or practitioner from a Certified SoulWorker is required. Those on the path to certification learn directly from Dr. Truscott and in community with other Certified SoulWorkers and trainees.
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