Monica Dudárov Hunken, U.S.A. New York 2025

Monica Hunken is a theater-maker and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work, including five solo shows, has been produced in New York and globally including the Sibiu Int. Theater Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Beyond the Border Int. Storytelling Festival, De Parade, Porsgrunn Int. Theater Festival, Int. Storyteller's Festival at Grodza Gate, among many others. Monica was a CulturePush Fellow in 2024 and winner of the Patrolio Award for her work responding to social injustice through art. She is Co-Artistic Director of Al Límite Collective, a theater company that sprung out of The Living Theatre and devises original works through social engagement with community. Hunken earned a B.F.A. in Drama from ETW and an M.A. in Educational Theatre at NYU and has since taught in Thailand, England, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Australia and beyond.
Monica is an activist who fights for immigrant rights and climate justice and is a creative direct action trainer with Beautiful Trouble, Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network and co-founded all-women bicycle dance troupe NYBike Dance.
The Street is The Theater! an adventure in site-specific performance
There is great power in disrupting business as usual with public artistic acts of self-expression. We will learn street theater techniques for drawing focus, moving as an ensemble, creating striking images, playing with creative impulse and how to communicate meaningful narrative in simple concrete forms that will convey your message to the public in "the streets". Through devising exercises and discussion, we will explore stories and issues that resonate with the local participants and then we will venture nearby outside for quick adventurous performance walks and create new pieces using the landscape and physical environment to inform the content.
Monica has taught Street Performance in the US and across the globe, including Mexico, France, Egypt, Austria, Greece, Sri Lanka and India and has adapted to the many different legal and physical terrains for a multitude of manifestations in public.