About Honey
New York, NY
Honey Crawford (CBA ’25) is assistant professor of English and dramatic literature at New York University. She studies Afro-Brazilian cultural performance as both a scholar and a practitioner, and she positions women-driven spectacles of Black consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries against prevalent discourse on the Black diaspora and performance studies. Her research privileges embodied knowledge and oral traditions while investigating attempts to capture or contain these forms in literature and text-centric works.
Her current book project, titled Negra Demais!: Overwhelming Performances of Afro Brazilian Femininity, pays close attention to theatrical traditions that press against the bounds of propriety and indulge in an aesthetic of abundance, identifying a preoccupation with the transgressive potential held in performances of Black feminine power. Crawford has combined her research interests with practical contributions to the field of theater and performance, most recently as a dramaturgical researcher with Front Row Productions for the forthcoming Broadway production of Black Orpheus. She previously completed dramaturgical research for Lynn Nottage in her adaptation of Vinicius de Moraes’ Orfeu da Conceição, also with Front Row Productions.
Project: “Tripping Tongues: Stumbling through Black Diaspora”