Denise Frazier
Programming Director
Denise Frazier is the Programming Director for Prospect New Orleans. She is an educator, musician, and interdisciplinary artist from Houston, who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2002. She was a 2023-2024 MLK Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, a place-based research Center that grants fellowships and organizes public programming, immersive experiences, and collective contemplation about the bioregion stretching from Texas to Florida and its connections with other regions around the world. Her research interests currently include the Gulf South and the Anthropocene, sound studies and the political, social, digital, natural, and built environments of the Gulf South and Circum-Caribbean. She is
also the manager, co-founder and violinist/vocalist/percussionist of Les Cenelles, a string and technological interfacing ensemble that performs African Diasporic music through a prismatic lens that honors African and Indigenous ancestors and chronicles ecological realities. As a company member of Goat in the Road Productions, Frazier has used her skills as an actor and as a musical composer in immersive performances and collaborations that tell lesser-known stories surrounding sexuality, politics, liberation, and colonialism. Frazier has participated in several boards that have supported the cultural and social ecosystem of New Orleans culture bearers. She is the proud parent of one son.
