She was a finalist for the Nation's annual prize for poetry, and reigns in Rattle's online top ten viewed poems of all time 7, She can drink you under the table, and make you laugh your ass off while she does it. Her workshops have helped to form a formidible number of national champions. Austin Walker wrote a great, short piece on the reaction to Forspokens dialogue and its one that I agree with wholeheartedly. She runs yearly workshops at the National Poetry Slam in comedy and performance. She taught a 3-month residency in North Minneapolis' Patrick Henry High School's ESL program to a primarily Hmong and Liberian student body. She has taught workshops in writing and performance in scores of colleges, high schools, libraries, community centers. She orchestrated a city-wide 3-month program in 8 Minneapolis community youth centers where she wrote the curriculum, trained the teachers, taught two workshops herself, and organized a final poetry slam at Minneapolis' acclaimed Walker Modern Art Museum. With a background in theater and stand-up comedy, Thadra is a seasoned and meticulously dynamic performer. She is a two-time Minneapolis Grand Slam Champion, and coached the Berkeley Slam Team to 6th place at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX. Her scathing, hilarious, autobiographical work has won her countless poetry slams in dozens of cities, including Berkeley's coveted $1000. Thadra has performed at hundreds of colleges, high schools, juvenile detention centers, and badass venues across the country, from the Conga Room in LA to the Bowery in New York to the Walker Modern Art Center in Minneapolis. She charges for pity, and she's sick of waiting tables. She is snarky, clever as hell, and a little bit evil. If it has hurt, she will find a way to laugh at it. Thadra is currently working on a memoir and a series of humorous essays about contemporary culture. She was the recent recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Verve grant for spoken word, and writes a weekly column for the online Op-Ed magazine, Opine Season. With Austin leaving Waypoint and ultimately games journalism, I think now is a good time as any to just post your favorite quotes, videos, podcasts, rants, and anything you can think of that Austin has done. She has been a member of four National Poetry Slam Teams, featured at ForWord Girls, the first ever all-female spoken word festival in San Francisco and won LA’s first all-female Redhots Slam. Unfortunately, I think a lot of folks have confused ‘a funny character’ with ‘a character who doesn't take their own situation, no matter how perilous or interesting it is, seriously,’ Austin Walker, IP director at game studio Possibility Space and former editor in chief of Vice’s Waypoint, wrote in a blog postabout the recent explosion of irr. Her work has been featured on the final episode of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Minnesota Public Radio, UpWorthy, Button Poetry, and venues across the country, including San Quentin Penitentiary, where she scored serious points talking about her terrible taste in men. She has been published in the Star and Tribune, the Skyway News, Moxie Magazine, Rattle, and several anthologies. She has won awards for her writing from the Faulkner Society and the National League of American Pen Women. The audience and critics appreciated Jake’s performance as Hardy Brown in the movie and he was nominated for multiple awards as well.THADRA SHERIDAN is a poet, essayist, columnist, teacher, and performer from Minneapolis, MN. Austin Walker wrote a great, short piece on the reaction to Forspoken's dialogue and it's one that I agree with wholeheartedly. ![]() It was also nominated for numerous awards around the world. The movie was based on Jim Dent’s novel of the same title and followed the story of a high school coach, who builds a state-champion football team from scratch.Īpart from this, the movie was critically as well as commercially successful because of its inspiring storyline and direction. In 2021, Jake played the major role of Hardy Brown in a history, drama, and sports movie called “12 Mighty Orphans” created by Ty Roberts Lane Garrison, and Kevin Meyer. Other than the above, Jake has played recurring roles in numerous movies as well as short films such as I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), The Macabre World of Lavender Williams (2009), Alabama Moon (2009), Alabama Moon (2010), The Chaperone (2011), No One Lives (2012), TheCavKid (2015), Butter (2020), 12 Mighty Orphans (2021), Butter (2022) and others.
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