Lynden Harris
Lynden Harris is the founder of Hidden Voices, a radically inclusive, participatory, and co-creative collective committed to creating a just, compassionate, and sustainable world. Since 2003, Lynden has collaborated with underrepresented communities to create award-winning works that combine narrative, performance, mapping, music, digital media, and interactive exhibits.
Her play Count: Stories from America’s Death Row recently premiered at Playmakers Repertory Company and To Buy the Sun: The Challenge of Pauli Murray completed its East Coast tour in 2018.
Current Hidden Voices projects include Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice, a community call and response with men living on America’s Death Row; At Ease: Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide; and We Are Here: Imagining a World without Sexual Violence.
Recently named the North Carolina Playwriting Fellow for 2019-20, Lynden is the co-creator with men on death row of the collection Right Here, Right Now, to be published by Duke University Press. Lynden teaches “Stories for Social Change” at Duke University, is a founding member of the US Department of Arts and Culture, and a 2016 MAP Fund awardee. Lynden is trained as a restorative justice Circle Keeper and as a facilitator for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation circles. She is a former columnist for the News and Observer family of papers. Her writing appears most recently in Mothers & Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South.
Ten Things I Can’t Do Without
- Okra
- Digging in the dirt
- The yearly shock of returning green and blossoming everything
- Baby pugs
- My extensive, welcoming Southern family
- Storytelling
- Sunrises and sunsets
- The miraculous unfolding of relationships
- Historic houses
- The ocean