Honor Ford-Smith is author of Letters from the Dead: Pedagogies of Performance & Transnational Democracy

Honor Ford-Smith is Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Arts in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. 

She is best known for her work as founding artistic director of the maverick Sistren Theatre Collective of Jamaica for whom she directed and co-created several plays and performances based education projects.

Her publications on cultural politics, nation and postcolonial performance appear in journals such as Interventions and Caribbean Quarterly.  She has one collection of poetry my mother’s last dance (Sister Vision, Toronto: 1997).  Her work on feminism and Jamaican performance includes Lionheart Gal: Lifestories of Jamaican women with the Sistren Theatre Collective; UWI Press: Kingston, Jamaica 2005.

Her current research explores how Jamaican communities and individuals perform memories of 40 years of urban community wars and asks what these practices of memorialization teach about resistance and collusion with the reproduction of urban violence.  3 Jamaican plays (1976-1986): a postcolonial anthology which she edited and introduced for Paul Issa Publications, Kingston, Jamaica is due out this spring.

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