Yunina Barbour-Payne
Teaching Experience
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, August 2020-present |Department of Theatre and Dance, Introduction to Theatre TD301
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, August 2019-2022 | Department of Theatre and Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences Tour, Power of Story, Dancing America
Fine Arts Team Lead, North Forest Campus, August 2018-May 2019 | YES Prep Public Schools
Instructor, North Forest Campus, August 2014 – May 2019 | YES Prep Public Schools | Subjects Taught: Theater, Speech Communications Health, English Literature
Teaching Artist, Young Performers’ Program, June 2015 – present | Ensemble Theatre, Theatre Theory 10-17 yr. old
Grade Level Chair, North Forest Campus, August 2015 – August 2017 | YES Prep Public Schools, 10th Grade
Teaching Assistant, Texas A & M University, January 2014-May 2014 | Department of Performance Studies, Theatre History
Teaching Assistant, Northern Kentucky University, August 2011-May 2012 | Department of Theater & Dance
Professional Publications
Online Publication
Barbour-Payne, Yunina. “Young Gifted, Black and Matter!": Teaching and Performing Activism through the Black Lives Matter Aesthetic.” In Albeit 4.1 Black Lives Matter Eds. Natalie R. Leppard. 1 March 2017
Book Chapter
Barbour-Payne, Yunina. “Carolina Chocolate Drops: Globalization and the Performative Expressions and Reception of Affrilachian Identity” (Book Chapter) in Appalachia
Revisited: New on Place, Tradition and Progress. University of Kentucky Press, 2016 Book Review
Barbour-Payne, Yunina. Review of “Theater of the French Caribbean: Traditions and Contemporary Stages” by Stéphanie Bérard. In The Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2014
Honors, and Grants Awarded
2020 PhD Career Pathways Fellowship, Texas Career Engagement. University of Texas at Austin
2020 Creative Study Fellowship Award, The History Makers: $5,000
College of Fine Arts Diversity Grant, Student Project Support Grant: $1,000
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, The
University of Texas at Austin, Student Organization Sponsorship Award: $100
2019 Professional Development Award, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin
Morton Brown, Nellie Lea Brown, and Minelma Brown Lockwood Scholarship Fund in Drama: $4,000
Giorgee Award, Best Leading Actress, Ensemble Theatre
Published: August 31, 2022