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Acting
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Directing
Terri has directed many new plays including, "Lemon Meringue" which was performed in NYC both in July '11 at the TADA Theatre and then again at Barrow Group Theatre in November '13. (www.lemonmeringue.org)
Terri has also spent many years directing one-woman Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions. She directed and adapted Deborah Ortiz’s Changing VioletNominated for two IT Awards – Best Solo Performance and Best Performance Art piece), Veronica Golos’A Bell Buried Deep(From book of same name that won the Roerich Poetry Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Athena Reich’s rock operaAthena Under AttackToronto Fringe Festival and Producers Club in NYC), Lisa Ramirez’sExit Cuckoo (63rd Street Y), and Lisa Danser’sA Missing Peace. She has also directed Serafina Martino's cabaret show, Back on Base
Terri has directed hundreds of school performances with children and teenagers (both original and established plays) and has most recently directed Seussical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Fame at the Birch School in Merrick, NY. Currently, She is the director of the Bay Shore Middle School musical each year, having directed Once on This Island, Seussical and High School Musical 2.
In godspine, Terri Muuss explores the kind of spiritual chiropractic necessary for a final escape from the trauma of sexual abuse explored in her first collection, Over Exposed. From deep forays into dissociative episodes to reclaiming her sex and sexuality, from crafting praise songs to the earth to celebrating the body that has held her through everything, Muuss charts a triumphant course for a restless mind demanding release from the shackles of a devastating past. These poems boldly press and adjust the body of trauma until it aligns with the spirit of survival.
praise for godspine
In the beginning there was the word, and the word in Terri Muuss’s poems is so powerful—the images and moments so raw and sensual, so frightful and beautiful and painfully true—they shake us out of our culturally inflicted stupors and induce awe. Terri Muuss is a wonder and an inspiration.
—Beverly Donofrio, Riding in Cars with Boys
godspine details one woman’s journey away from her own unmaking. In this rattling collection, Muuss guides the reader through the unimaginable, revealing an extraordinary but simple truth: trauma survival is an act of will. With images of a thousand fists in my mouth, Muuss goads the mind’s unrelenting sabotage, proclaiming, I had to exist. The reader can neither shed nor look away from these poems because we, too, exist and resurrect amid these pages. Nothing is left, she reminds us, but to begin it all/again. A remarkable testament to why we have named this survival.
—Jeanann Verlee, prey
In godspine, Terri Muuss takes the reader on a journey of survival: the rubbing world of men. What does it look like to make a life after horrors are inflicted upon the body? What does it look like to not only exist but also live? What is it to be a woman in this world, one-in-three of us? In this second collection, Muuss does not mince words: rape is the business, but beyond that, there is a clear and deep industry in love. Muuss tells us that time is not poetry, but in the pages of this collection, time offers us the endurance to become gifts, to become who we are meant to be. It is a prime collection, a salve for those in need.
—Yesenia Montilla, The Pink Box
In godspine, words hit hard, hit deep, sewn together to make beauty, discomfort and unease and, more than that, to make us brave. Words to make us brave. Poem Written While Listening to Brett Kavanaugh will stay in you, through you. This is the power of Terri, whether it’s She grips a gun or Our moans hold the line of truth, Terri Muuss is a force of nature. Grab hold of her. I did, and I am so grateful, so hugely grateful.
—Amy Ferris, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions of a Midlife Crisis
