The woman behind Pittsburgh’s Demaskus Theater Collective
“The best place to be is at the intersection of art and faith.”
Shaunda Miles McDill, who founded the Pittsburgh-based Demaskus Theater Collective in 2005, embodies a merger between art and faith. Demaskus’s mission is to make known the messages of the marginalized through quality theatrical productions and presentations. Information on productions is at demaskus.com.
How did you come to form Demaskus Theater Collective?
Having studied African and African American studies and theater, and being a person who relished in the study of the Bible, I believe I found the point of intersection with God’s call to “demask us.” I suppose I was always struggling with the truth I knew of the history of enslaved Africans in America, always trying to reconcile that with the freedom we are told we have in Christ.
