In the 2023 production of Organize: Take to the Streets!, Girl Be Heard’s Artistic Company proudly presents the many phases and stages of what it takes to organize a movement, a social change, and even a revolution when masses of people become dissatisfied with their current conditions.

Audience members will have the unique opportunity to observe GBH’s powerful young artivists as they use their creative voices as actors, poets, singers, and dancers to highlight—in the name of social justice—not only what we see when organizers take to the streets; we will also see the phases and stages of organizing long before movements surface and become visible to the general public.

From justice in the streets of the U.S. South & Soweto to the streets of the Bronx to farmers’ fields in India to the parking lots of U.S. hospitals with poor health services for Black expectant mothers, GBH’s talented Company Members reflect on the emotional journeys of participants in movements past and present while helping audience members to develop an awareness of these historical moments. All will come away with a better understanding of the common threads, struggles, and structural patterns that movements share across global communities.

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Joy Sunday the talented actress who starred in the Tim Burton-directed series 'Wednesday' on Netflix, will be hosting the talkback for Mainstage 2023 on May 23rd.

Joy Sunday is a multi-hyphenate actor of Nigerian descent, born and raised in New York City. As a child, she dreamed of being a pop star but discovered her love of acting in middle school. Enchanted by the gravity of theatre, she chose to study drama at world-renowned Fiorello H. LaGuardia High.

Joy later graduated from USC’s film school with an honors degree in Critical Studies alongside several filmmaking distinctions from artist initiatives, including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her professional acting journey kicked off with a top-of-show guest star on CBS’ Macgyver, and film appearances in Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, Channing Tatum’s Dog, Cooper Raiff’s Sh*thouse, and Jim Cummings’ and PJ McCabe’s Beta Test. She also racked up guest appearances on Netflix’s Dear White People, Freeform’s Good Trouble, and CBS’s Carol’s Second Act. In 2021, Joy landed the role of Bianca Barclay opposite Jenna Ortega in Tim Burton’s debut television series, Wednesday. In 2022, Joy performed in a political three-hander play called ‘Intelligence’ as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She hit the ground running in 2023 when she became the face of the first digital cover for MiniV Magazine, a sister publication of V Magazine.

She loves her family, Twizzlers, and wakes up every day wondering why she doesn’t have a dog.