Ray Jordan Achan (he/him/his) is an Indo-Caribbean, Brooklyn based producer, performer & public artist. Ray is the Founding Artistic Director of EXILED TONGUES, a performance collective that provides financial, artistic and collaborative support to artists of the global majority who center diasporic consciousness. Ray is a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee for his cross-generational project, "Generation of Love", and is a 2023 Engaging Artist Fellow at More Arts. He is the recipient of the 2022 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for his site-specific documentary theater project, "Our Bang for Their Buck: No Pipeline for LNG", and the 2022 Creative Equations Fund from the Brooklyn Arts Council and a commissioned artist with Works on Water for his iterative, site-specific documentary theater project, "(Re)Imagining Greenpoint's Green Waters." Recently, Ray was a part of the inaugural Rising Producer Fellow cohort at the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance. Ray is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in Government and Theater with Honors.

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