Austen Danielle Bohmer makes a home in her dressing room

Circling Issue #25, featuring Austen Danielle Bohmer

Austen Danielle Bohmer is a many-hatted maker who craves and cultivates spaces of creative incubation. In life and in art, she centers collaboration and community, pleasure and play. As an actor, Austen has played on Broadway, on screen, and around the country — currently playing Glinda on the national tour of Wicked! Austen is a big believer in the power of live theater (+ music) as a sneaky little conduit to the shared well of human experience. As a teaching artist, she has served as one of Arts Ignite’s longest running residents. As a songwriter, she releases tender tunes under the name Plain Austen. As a kooky aunt and trusty pal, she has painted many murals in the homes of loved ones. Austen is a yoga teacher/student, a slow-but-avid reader, and an in-process-pursuer of decolonial frameworks. She loves dreams, Butoh, David Lynch, and composting. 

It was such a treat to connect with Austen early in her tour. We met for a long and winding chat in her dressing room backstage at Wicked