TeAda Productions is excited to announce CreAtive Healing Lab (CHL) which will take place from October 2025 through June 2026. As part of this series, all-star guest teaching artists will facilitate workshops that combine the arts, social justice, and collective healing. The goal of CHL is to be a sanctuary-third place for community to gather, process current events, imagine sustainable futures, community-build, and heal through sharing space and creating art.
The 5th workshop of the Spring is titled “Liberation in Motion: A Performance Art Workshop” and will be led by Katherine Bahena-Benitez.
About the workshop: A two-hour immersive workshop exploring performance art as a practice of healing and liberation. Together, we will move through a writing workshop and writing prompts rooted in identity, memory, and freedom, before transforming our words into embodied expressions through movement or spoken word. Participants will be guided to create short pieces that reflect their truths, and we will share our work in community. As witnesses to one another, we will reflect on what we felt and discovered, seeking common ground in the liberating possibilities of art.
About the facilitator: Katherine Bahena-Benitez (she/they) is a queer Mexican Indigenous actor, writer, director, fillmaker, model and teaching artist who is bicoastal between California and New York.
Katherine has trained with the American Conservatory Theater, Shakespeare and Company, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, California State University Sacramento and Broadway Advocacy Coalition at Columbia University. They’ve performed with New York Stage and Film, Teatro Linea de Sombra, NYU Skirball, La Lengua Teatro, National Queer Theater, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, and Teatro Espejo, among others.
Katherine has been featured in Vogue, HipLatina, Remezcla, VoyageLA, Fenty, Canvas Rebel, Brooks, YITTY, Apostrophe Magazine. Katherine is a Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellow Alumni, a LORT Fellow Alumni, a BAX Emergenyc Arts Alumni, a Queer Art Fellow Alumni, and recipient of the John Cauble Emerging Producer Leader Award. Katherine’s writing has been published in HEROICA, Museum Guild, and the International Human Arts Movement.
Katherine's solo show JOTA debuted in Sacramento, CA with Teatro Espejo, the very first theater she ever worked with. Stay tuned for Katherine's upcoming short film, La Tierra de Sueños. Katherine says, “Con mucho amor y cariño, I do this for our gente, I do this for us.”
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/katherinebahenabenitez
What: CreAtive Healing Lab Workshop, Los Angeles
“Liberation in Motion: A Performance Art Workshop” | led by Katherine Bahena-Benitez
When: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 — from 10am to 12pm PST
Where: West Los Angeles, CA (register for address information)
Register: Button to sign up for this workshop is below, or click here.
Prices: Suggested-Donation / Sliding-Scale based
TeAda Productions is a Los Angeles based non-profit theater of color rooted in the stories of immigrants and refugees. We are committed to healing and honoring the lives of the displaced, exploited and overlooked. Our artistic process starts and ends with conscious listening, community building, and creative courage. Through theater workshops and performances, TeAda offers acts of service that are transformative and impactful.
