An interdisciplinary producer, storyteller, painter, and project director whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and community arts. Grounded in multimedia performance, education and visual art, her practice creates spaces for connection, dialogue, and transformation.
Massimino currently serves as Project Director and Program Coordinator for the Racial Justice Institute at Georgetown University, where she develops and leads creative and scholarly initiatives highlighting art’s role in social change and collective healing. Massimino is also a member of the Woodshed Collective where she collaborates with a multigenerational network of artists and scholars to develop experimental methodologies for performance research and interdisciplinary creation. As a co-producer for the Collective, she manages partnerships, residency logistics, and supports the creative development of new works.
At Georgetown, she leads the Black Folkways digital humanities project, which began with the project Cooking Up History: Honoring African American Resilience in the Chesapeake Bay—collecting oral histories about Black foodways and cultural memory. Building on this foundation, Massimino guided a team of students to extend the research to Cat Island in the Bahamas, documenting intergenerational memory, ecology, and community traditions, and later to Washington, D.C., where the project continued to evolve. Together, these interconnected efforts form a living digital archive that celebrates Black culture, storytelling, and joy. Her recent producing work includes the Massive Open Online Course, Black Performance as Social Protest, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, where she built the course architecture, and organized production from inception through launch. When the course expanded into immersive media, she served as assistant director and co-producer of the extended reality (XR) film component, overseeing creative design, storyboarding, and production execution.
She also co-developed Perspectivas Negras: Puerto Rican Artivism, a collaboration between the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Universidad de Sagrado Corazón, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Flamboyan Foundation, and The Woodshed Center for Art, Thought, and Culture. As co-producer, she was instrumental in designing and implementing this international residency, supporting Puerto Rican artists developing new works addressing racial inequity and Black life in Puerto Rico. As a founding member of the performance collective Call Your Mom, Massimino has co-created and produced interdisciplinary works in the U.S., Chile, Ecuador, and Sweden, including residencies at Cucalorus (NC), NAVE (Chile), Perfect Storm (Ecuador), and Brunakra Sweden). A semi-finalist for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, her creative leadership spans performance, pedagogy, and digital storytelling. Through all her work, Massimino continues to ask how collaborative art-making and research can build empathy, dialogue, and belonging.
Website: www.miamassimino.com