Amina S. McIntyre

Artist and Writer in Atlanta, GA

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Amina S. McIntyre is an artist scholar and Ph.D candidate in Religion, area Religion, Psychology and Culture, with minors in Womanist Ethnography and Homiletics and Liturgics at Vanderbilt University. McIntyre earned a BA in Anthropology at Colby College, MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, MFA in Playwriting at Spalding University, and Master of Theological Studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She is an Atlanta regional playwright with production credits at Actor’s Express, Atlanta History Museum, Out of Hand Theatre, Oakland Cemetery, Vanguard Repertory Theatre and Vanderbilt University. She was a Playwriting Apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company, Managing Director of Karibu Performing Arts, 2014-2016 Atlanta Region Young Ambassador for the Dramatist’s Guild, Co-Producer of WeReckon: A Southern Chronicle and the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs 2014-2015 Emerging Theatre Artist.

Most recently, she has created plays with Horizon Theatre’s Black Women Speak Emerging Cohort and a Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2022 Playwriting Fellow. McIntyre currently serves as Co-Founder of the Hush Harbor Lab, is an Emory University Center for Ethics Arts and Social Justice Fellow.

McIntyre is an Elder in Full Connection with the CME Church and a Co-Founder of Hush Harbor Lab, a new play development company featuring the work Black Artists and Black stories. McIntyre explores a womanist pastoral theology centering imagination in spiritual care experiences, with an aim to explore the intersections of religion and the arts.

  • Work
    • Lady Loves Her Pen, LLC
  • Education
    • Colby College, Indiana University, Spalding University
    • Emory University
    • Vanderbilt University