Joy-Marie Thompson is a performing artist, writer, and educator from Pittsburgh, PA. As a performer, they have worked with choreographers such as Sudra Bell, Staycee Pearl, Shamel Pitts, Stephanie Batten Bland, Maxine Doyle, and Damani Pompey. They have appeared in The Mckittrick Hotel’s Sleep No More, at The Public Theater for Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s shadow/land and a.k. payne’s TIA PRAY A SOUND, The Metropolitan Opera’s El Niño, and Geoff Sobelle’s HOME. Their commercial credits include performing in music videos for Chloe Flower and The Kills. As an educator, Joy-Marie teaches improvisation and contemporary dance as an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance.