Regina Y. Evans is an award winning social justice playwright/actor, poet, entrepreneur, costume designer, installation artist, and filmmaker. Her creative work largely focuses upon the healing of Black girls and women, the historical commodification of the Black female womb, and the fight against child sex trafficking.
She is the Founder of Regina’s Door, 2014-2021, an Oakland, Ca, based vintage store/creative arts healing space for young survivors of sex trafficking, as well as a Co-Founder (with Amara Tabor Smith) of Conjure And Mend, Oakland, Ca, 2018-2021, a sewing salon created for young survivors of sex trafficking to learn the art of costume designing. She is also a member of House Full Of Black Women, a multi site performance ritual project that addresses the displacement, well being and sex trafficking of Black girls and women, Co-Founded by Amara Tabor Smith and Ellen Sebastian Chang.
Ms. Evans is a second generation native of Oakland. California, and has recently relocated to New York City to pursue her social justice playwriting career.
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