Aurelie Harp
The Womanity Project
New York, New York
Email: aurelie@womanityproject.com
Website: womanityproject.com
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Vimeo: The Womanity Project
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Facebook: /womanityproject
LinkedIn: /aurelieharp
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Instagram: womanityplay
Bio:
Aurélie (France/USA) is an all-around human development coach, a filmmaker and a community organizer. She is also the founder and CEO of The Womanity Project, a non-profit multimedia platform using films and improv theater to shed a light on gender and cultural stereotypes, develop empathy and reconnect people on a human level to advance equality. Aurélie uses her creative license to build ensembles and develop opportunities of development with schools, universities and organizations. Love, curiosity, engaging with each other, connection… Her passion is to listen to people’s stories and present them to the world to challenge the “stereotyped single narrative” that gets in the way.
She started her career in Corporate Advertising at Ogilvy in Paris and NYC before deciding to follow her passion for theater and films. She studied acting in Paris (with coaches from the Actors’ Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute) and in London (The Actors’ Centre) and started Comedy Improv in NYC. Thanks to her understanding of the corporate world and her performing skills, she started collaborating as a leadership coach for international corporate organizations, including Hiscox, SAP, FED, FIT… In 2011, she created Actfluent, an organization using theater to teach languages to kids.
Aurélie has a BA in History and Communication and a Master Degree in Marketing Strategy from Science-Po Paris in France where she lived and worked for years before moving to the US. She graduated from The International Class in 2018, and since then continues her training with the East Side Institute. She is part of a NYC Social Therapeutic Group led by Barb Silverman. Aurélie lives in Brooklyn, NY with her spouse, Mike, and their son, Camille, and daughter, Joséphine.
Have a glimpse at the Womanity Project’s latest production, LaLa’s World a short documentary telling the story of LaLa Zannel, a the Trans Justice Campaign Manager at the ACLU and the first trans woman of color at the White House briefing for Women’s History Month. LaLa’s journey is a unique story of challenges, love and support that differs from the “Victim’s narrative” that we often hear in the media.