Teaching, acting, producing - when it comes to exploring the world through the streets of New York, it seems that Judith Sloan has done it all. Known for her collaboration on the multi-media project "Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America," Sloan spent 20 years teaching at schools and jails where she encountered immigration, cultural clashes, and generation gaps. Now, she presents her accounts in a new play-in-progress Yo Miss!: Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide. A project of EarSay, a non-profit devoted to portraying uncelebrated stories, Sloan's work in Yo Miss! is described as "sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always truth-seeking performance" that "attempts to break down assumptions that divide residents of a polygot city who live in close proximity but come from conflicting worlds." Sloan will perform this work-in-progress and lead a discussion afterwards.

Judith Sloan is an award-winning actress, oral historian and documentary audio artist, whose multi-character solo performances combining humor, pathos and a love of the absurd include Denial of the Fittest, Responding to Chaos, and A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi. Her audio pieces include radio documentaries that have been produced for National Public Radio and New York Public Radio, audio sound pieces for exhibitions, and audio sound and music pieces. Her plays, commentaries, and essays have been published by Second Story Press, the Forward, and the New York Times. Sloan is a member of the faculty at the Gallatin School at NYU where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary art, oral history, theatre and community projects. She was last onstage at the Opera House in Women and the Sea in 2006.

Yo Miss! is written and performed by Judith Sloan, directed by Michael Dinwiddie, with Yoni Oppenheim. Featuring original music by Taylor Rivelli and additional music and sound by Frank London, David Krakauer, Dave Guy, Samir Zariff, Lars Dietrich and Judith Sloan. The dramaturg is Yoni Oppenheim and the editor-at-large is Warren Lehrer. Workshop performance developed in association with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Lab Program, produced by Michael Premo.