Ep 15, IA StoryShare 2025: Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant

For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent national gathering at Las Cruces, NM - Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want, and asked them the following questions: How did you find your way to the IA community, What people, ideas, places, actions brought you here? And what has kept you coming back? Who, what, where in this network is a source of sustenance for you?

In this third episode of the season, theater practitioners/educators Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant talk about inter-disciplinary practice, working across silos, what sustains them in this work.

Lizzy Cooper Davis is an artist and scholar interested in how the arts can facilitate community conversation, resistance, and change. She is particularly focused on cultural work within Black freedom movements and has conducted research in such places as Cuba, Brazil, and New Orleans. She is currently developing an applied theatre project with formerly incarcerated people in partnership with Ritual4Return, Emerson Prison Initiative, and New Beginnings Reentry Services. Learn more>>>

Ural Grant is an award-winning theater artist and educator. He recently completed an MFA program in Theater at Michigan State University and is currently a faculty member at Kennesaw State University. Ural is particularly passionate about working with young people, community engagement, and arts education. He has led workshops on nonviolence, peer pressure, and communication through Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet Project. Learn more >>>