Braxton Rae is an early career director, deviser, and creator whose creative work and scholarship is focused on blackness, queerness, feminism, and marginalized identities more broadly. Additionally, Braxton is interested in the craft of intimacy work and how to stage intimacy with care and safety being a priority. Braxton’s main artistic goals are to foster a community within the arts that has a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, Braxton aims to create art that starts conversations, is compelling, beautiful, makes people think and question their own internal biases, and that begets social change