Wayne Harris is an award-winning solo performer, writer, educator, curriculum innovator and musician. His plays include Mother’s Milk, The May Day Parade and Jockamo. His last production Train Stories was critically acclaimed earning a Bay Area Broadway nomination and an extended sold-out run. A gifted artist with wide ranging interests Wayne is passionate about storytelling that combines his lived experience with hopeful declarations for the future. Wayne was invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to the Middle East and perform his play, The Letter; Martin Luther King at the Crossroads. Having just retired from being Program Director for The Marsh Youth Theater in San Francisco,  serving underprivileged students in after-school programs, Wayne now travels extensively throughout the U.S. providing “Improvisation & Performance” workshops for Youth Pageantry groups (marching bands, dance teams etc.) In addition, he is currently a facilitator for FIPPP, an exciting and important project guiding formerly incarcerated adults in creating, producing and performing their stories and partnering with Berkeley Rep in bringing storytelling to programs in San Francisco Jails.