Miss Lindsey in Mule Bone, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes’ historical comedy. Teacher Pettitt has professional experience and training in directing and storytelling workshops. She teaches a step-by-step process of creating, writing and performing original material. Partnering with a wide array of organizations, she has helped scores of diverse groups present their own original stories as both theater and storytelling performances. She also works extensively with drama therapists, social workers and educators in public schools. Both in the U.S. and abroad, Pettitt has worked at numerous schools and educational institutions. Her teaching experience extends to facilities such as homeless shelters, prisons, drug treatment centers, VA hospitals, and senior and adolescent centers. Additionally she has ample experience working with the emotionally and physically disabled and their families. She currently teaches self-scripting at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. Biography In 1974, after earning a BA from Antioch College, she moved to London on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Pettitt now resides in New York City. She has been married since 1982 to writer, director and painter Rémy Tissier. Awards and honors 2008, Story gatherer for "Another River Flows" recipient of the Pennsylvania Human Relation Award 2010, Voyage was presented at the Avignon, France Off Festival Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for role in Black Girl 2007, Ms. Pettitt and the Pearls of Wisdom were inducted into New York City Lore's People's Hall of Fame Recipient of New York City's Arts In Education Roundtable Award for sustained achievement in theater Honored by the William Hodson Senior Center, The Roundtable Senior Center and Elders Share the Arts for "Commitment to the art of storytelling that transforms lives and communities" 2011, Performance Space 122 founders and board pioneers Shining Star Award In books Out of Character, Mark Russell, 1997 Performing Democracy, Susan Chandler Haedicke, 2004 Mapping Memories, Pam Schweitzer, 2004 Local Acts, An International Anthology, Jan Cohen Cruz, 2005 Ensemble Works, An Anthology, Ferdinand Lewis, 2005 Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memory, Pam Schweitzer, 2007 Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives For People With Dementia, Ann Basting, 2009. Notes American female dancers American dancers 1950 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights African-American actresses American actresses Watson Fellows American storytellers Women storytellers 20th-century American women writers African-American women musicians 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women