Judith Sloan (co-founder of EarSay), is an actor, audio artist, writer, and educator whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. Sloan has been creating interdisciplinary works in audio and theater, portraying voices often ignored by the mass media for the past 20 years. Her solo performances and plays include: Yo Miss! (La Mama, WNYC’s the Greene Space, Joe’s Pub), Denial of the Fittest (Performed La Mama, HERE), A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi (play and radio docudrama collaboration with Laura Sydell aired on NPR). She is co-author of Crossing the BLVD, (Brendan Gill Prize 2004), book, performance, exhibition (premiered Queens Museum of Art) and radio series aired WNYC and NPR affiliates 2001 through 2007. Crossing the BLVD radio documentaries aired on New York Public Radio and NPR from 2001 through 2007. New York Times described her performance of Crossing the BLVD as ‘‘a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America.’’ Sloan was commissioned to write the libretto for 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America, with music by Frank London which premiered in April 2012 by the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Sloan has received numerous awards for her audio mixes and documentary works including a 2013 New York Foundation on the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in Sound/Music, grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation among others. With Warren Lehrer she is co-founder of EarSay, an artist-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of uncelebrated individuals. Sloan is a member of the Adjunct faculty at Gallatin School at New York University. In 2009 she received the Partnership in Education award for EarSay’s theatre program for immigrant youth in partnership with the International High School at LaGuardia Community College in Queens NY.