Monica Hunken

Teaches at Pioneer Works

Monica creates docu-adventure solo plays about her bicycle travels around the world. She teaches physical theater, storytelling, street theater and creative direct action in as varied settings as a Muslim women's association in Wadi Rum, Jordan, in a boys orphanage in India, to hundreds of activists in Zuccotti Park, on Bondi Beach in Australia, at a theater festival in Athens, Greece during riots, in homeless shelters, public schools, theaters and privately all across New York City. Monica earned her BFA in Drama from the Experimental Theatre Wing and MA in Educational Theatre at NYU and has trained in Amsterdam, at the Grotowski Center in Poland and finished her Masters at Trinity College in Dublin. Hunken performs in NY and across the world with her own shows, "Reading The Water", "Blondie of Arabia" and "The Wild Finish". She has also performed with LesFreresCorbusier, International WOW, Scott Lyons and Co. and The Living Theatre. Monica is a dedicated activist working with Occupy The Pipeline, Rev. Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping, Occupy Wall Street and bicycle dance troupe- NYBikeDance. Monica’s creative direct action techniques within the OWS movement have been featured in the documentary film, “Everyday Rebellion” by the Riahi Brothers. She loves to focus on liberation through self- expression and physical release. Take a class with her.