Chad Goller-Sojourner

Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, solo performer and recipient of a distinguished Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and featured on NPR. Most recently, he authored an evening-length play entitled “The Bus Stop.” In 2009, he launched a national college tour of his groundbreaking and crushingly honest solo show “Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy,” which debuted July, 2008 at Seattle’s Brownbox African-American Theatre. A written memoir is currently in the works. Additional works include “Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folks” and “A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment,” which has been described as poignant, chilling and prophetic, and serving as creator, artistic director and executive producer for People of Color Against Aids Network’s “Standing in the Gap ─ And Speaking Their Names ─ Black Gay Poets Honor Their Ancestors ─ A Spoken Word Requiem.” More about Chad at sitting-in-circles.com