Associate Professor Kaja Dunn, Carnegie Mellon University

Kaja Dunn (She/Her)

Kaja Dunn is a multi-hyphenate artist, scholar, and intimacy professional. Resident Intimacy and Cultural Consultant for Folger Theatre, and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Intimacy work includes: Broadway: A Strange Loop (Assoc. Intimacy Director); Television: The Best Man, Final Chapters, Harlem, Mayor of Kingstown, The Equalizer. Two River Theatre: Wine In The Wilderness; Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, Our Verse In Time To Come, Metamorphoses, The Reading Room; Arena Stage: American Prophet; Denver Center for the Arts: Choir Boy, 5th Ave; ACT Theatre (Seattle): Choir Boy; St. Louis Rep.: Private Lives, Confederates; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar In Our Wounds;  Directing Work Includes: Cape Fear Regional Theatre: No Child, California Center for The Arts: Hairalouges , Playwrights Project, Old Globe: Plays By Young Writers Festival.  Staged Readings or Pandemic Performances; Triad Stage: Freedom Hill,  Studios of Key West and NC Black Rep: Jeffery Manor,  Playmakers Rep (Readings) :Edges of Time,  Noms De Guerre. Educational: Blues for an Alabama Sky (UNCC), Suessical, Twilight Los Angeles, As It Is In Heaven, Telling Stories (Cal State San Marcos).

Awards: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Award, Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival Award Region II Award for Innovative Teaching, Playwrights Project Excellence in Arts Education; Publications: Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook, Arden Contemporary Shakespeare, Intimacy Direction For Theatre, Theatre Symposium, American Theatre Magazine, HowlRound, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (UK). Her favorite role is mom to Ian, Zeke and Auggie.