Siobhan Juanita Brown (Keesuty8ee Elm) is from Roxbury, MA and is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Growing Elm lives on her ancestral homelands on the southern coast of Cape Cod where she is a daughter, sister, auntie, storyteller, language keeper and peacemaker. She has worked with the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project as a student of the language since 2005. From 2013 to 2021 Siobhan was a language apprentice and member of the founding teaching team of Weetumuw Katnuhtôhtâkamuq, the first Wôpanâak language and culture immersion school providing academic and Indigenous education using a Montessori pedagogy for decolonization and language reclamation. She is Montessori certified for primary ages 3 – 6 and has a BFA in Performing Arts from Emerson College and graduate certificate in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
Siobhan is the Co – Indigenous Solidarity & Sovereignty Officer for the board of Montessori for Social Justice. She is also Co - Chair of the Representation, Equity and Diversity team for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region 1, representing the northeast.
In the fall of 2021, Siobhan was Guest Artist for Patterns of Wind, a devised work with Boston University School of Theatre students. Performed in the Booth Theatre, students explored Indigenous storytelling and community practices rooted in the land of the Wôpanâak.
