BIO
Queen Drea is a sound alchemist, mixing sonic potions laced with looped vocals, jagged rhythms, and found sounds. She has designed sonic worlds for Pillsbury House+Theatre, Penumbra Theater’, dance companies, BrotherHood Dance, and Ananya Dance Theater, international artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and other dance and theater artists. Queen has created interdisciplinary work about depression in the Black community, African creator goddess Mawu and an exploration of what life comes From Black Wombs, and has been a McKnight Composer Fellow, PH+T Naked Stages Fellow, Jerome Finalist, and ACF Emerging Composer awardee. Queen is currently preparing to premier a family archival project, storytelling through voice and sound produced by Pillsbury House + Theater as a part of their 2026 Makers Series, A work commissioned by American Composers Forum.
I make worlds with my compositions.
Glitchy vocals, guttural cries, scratchy sounds, ear-piercing ground loops, and off-kilter rhythms are what I do.
Everything is intentional, yet improvisational in nature.
I do not seek to create smooth surfaces.
If my compositions invoke visceral responses in the listener, then I’ve done my job.
Queen Drea