Carlos Sirah

Carlos Sirah grew up in the Mississippi Delta.  

 

He is a writer, performer, and culture worker.

 

Sirah creates formal structures rooted in Black expressions of possibility that take the shape of concert, lyric prose, procession, and theatre.

 

Sirah's work thinks alongside multiple aesthetic traditions: Black Arts Movement, Theatrical Jazz,  Free Jazz, Black Church, Blues, and Field Hollers. Carlos Sirah is a member of the Remember2019 collective and the Veterans Art Movement. Sirah holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from Brown University.

 

Sirah's debut book, The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo Diptych, was published by The 3rd Thing in 2020.