Micah
Black Stories Matter Co-Director & TMI Project Workshop Leader
Pronoun: He/Him/His

“The Black Stories Matter workshop is how I first started with TMI Project. I was a participant in 2017 as part of the first cast but then I got more involved and became a facilitator. We as black people have always had stories to tell. Coming together in community to share them is deeply healing i think for all of us. White America, by choice and by ignorance, has been denied our stories and is maybe just maybe now recognizing how unhealthy that dynamic has been. Being a part of Black Stories Matter, of supporting the development of our stories, our truths — there’s really nothing more important to me.”

In addition to leading TMI Project workshops, Micah serves as the manager at GWI’s (Good Works Institute) Greenhouse Kingston, a yoga teacher at Mudita, and creator of DAY 1 (a New Year’s Day community event). He is on the board of Wild Earth (a non-profit Wilderness School), Radio Kingston, The Center for Creative Education, and O+ (a nonprofit health and wellness festival for artists and creators). He also serves as City of Kingston’s Art Commissioner at the Kingston Farmers Market.

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Eva Tenuto 
TMI Project Co-founder & Executive Director
Pronoun: She/Her/Hers

“Silencing marginalized groups of people has long been a tool used by those in power to maintain their status, which is why true storytelling has been and remains a vital component of social justice movement building. Nothing gives me deeper satisfaction than knowing we’re using TMI Project’s methodology to break down systemic oppression by speaking truth to power.”

Eva Tenuto is the co-founder and executive director of TMI Project. Since 2010, she has brought TMI Project from her living room to a host of performance spaces, schools, detention centers, mental health facilities and the United Nations. Eva is the editor and director of multiple solo shows, one of which was awarded Best Comedic Script of 2014 in the United Solo Festival. In 2018, her directorial film debut, Vicarious Resilience, a docu short, celebrated its world premiere at The Woodstock Film Festival. Eva’s own true stories have been published on Longreads.com and in numerous anthologies including Drinking Diaries, Goodbye to All That and others. Eva studied acting at American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She received a BA in Fine Art and Women’s Studies and an MA in Elementary Education, both from Hunter College. More at www.evatenuto.com

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Season 2 Guest Co-host:

Dara Lurie
Black Stories Matter Co-Director & TMI Project Workshop Leader
Pronoun: She/Her/Hers

“Writing and then sharing my story in my first TMI Project performance in 2017 allowed me to affirm and claim an important part of my life experience. Performing with and now mentoring other groups of TMI Project workshop writers, I’ve found the family I always wanted: a family based on telling stories with truth, courage and compassion.”

In addition to leading TMI Project workshops, Dara is an author and manuscript coach. She received a B.A. in Film & Theater from Vassar College and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hunter College. Dara grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and migrated in the early 1980s to West Berlin, Germany, where she tended bar, wrote and performed in the theater while living in different communities of squatters, Green Party activists, journalists, teachers, and social workers. Her first book, Great Space of Desire; Writing for Personal Evolution, is a memoir and creative guide for writers wishing to tell their own stories.