T.Namaya – Is an international performance artist, jazz poet, story-teller, and humorist. He has performed around the world in theaters and clubs in Europe, Asia (Japan, Malaysia, Australia, & New Zealand), though out the USA, and in the past year Palestine and Syria. He has performed with his band “Jazz Beat Poetry Ensemble,” and as a solo artist with his show “GOD SEX POLITICS,” and “Imagine this” a show completely improvised with the audience in NYC. Described as, “The high wire performance artist of the spoken word.”

His 2011 show is based on his new CD “Vermont My Home: A celebration” is a multimedia performance based on Namaya’s stories, music, songs, and photographs. “It is a celebration of my home on Blue Heron Pond, characters like my neighbor Josiah, the wayward monk Li Pon, and this 5 season paradise we call Vermont.” It is a story about traveling around the world, but always coming home to Vermont.

He is a poet and playwright and his play “Beatnik Cafe: A Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation” played to a sold out audience in NYC, and Boston. His newest play “Four Prophets,” the story of Jesus, Mohamed, Moses, and Satan in a public restroom is planned for staging in 2011. He has written three books of poetry “Eros to Godhead,” “GOD SEX POLITICS,” “Vermont My Home,” and a memoir “Journal of the Plague: Living and working with AIDS” (based on working with end-stage AIDS patients in a VA hospital in NYC.)