Moriah Flagler is a teacher, theatre maker, and scholar who is now studying to be a clinical mental health counselor. Her research focuses on community-based devising, applied improvisation, and digital storytelling. Her recent scholarship examines how devising digital stories with middle school aged Spanish speakers foregrounded their community cultural wealth during moments of improvised sharing within a schooling system that often strips Latinx youth of their languages and cultures through subtractive assimilation. She is excited to be a part of the next applied improv volume! 

Flagler holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Education from The University of Arizona. She is currently artistic director of the Be the Street Discovery Theme project at The Ohio State University where she is exploring the intersections of place, identity, connection, story, and social justice.