“Art in any form is continually in jeopardy of being eliminated. It is an artist’s responsibility to pass on what he or she knows to inspire the next generation to fight for art by creating art.”
DOMINIQUE CIERI is a playwright, master teaching artist, and member of the Dramatists Guild. She is the recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Playwriting Fellowship 2003, and 2009. A graduate of Rose Bruford College in Kent, England, and the recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence for Scholarship and Creative Activities. Ms. Cieri holds an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College, Vermont.
Ms. Cieri’s plays have been produced and developed in New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore. Her Essays on Arts and Education have been published in the New York Times, and Teaching Artist Journal. Dominique teaches the adaptation of nonfiction based on the Holocaust for the stage at Yavneh Academy in New Jersey where she also developed teaching curriculum and has adapted 24 plays based on Holocaust survivor stories.
The scope of Dominique’s work has touched on a wide variety of populations, including boys at risk in juvenile justice programs as well as 17 years of workshops for artists and educators for aTi, and also taught playwriting at Drew University 2018-19.