Mina Thirumurti

Mina is an emerging queer Tamil American poet, translator, theatre artist, and academic based in West Philadelphia.

Mina has nearly 10 years of childcare and teaching experience as a babysitter, a violin teaching assistant, an au pair in Italy, and visiting visual arts teacher in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In the final stretch of their B.A. in Italian Literature at Bryn Mawr, where he has performed in 5 plays and taught acting to 8th graders in Philly, Mina is most excited to integrate theatre lessons, multimedia arts, and music, and whenever possible, to sprinkle in language acquisition to her time in the Aviary.

Mina is inspired to share, through the healing power of theater, practices of storytelling and embodiment to nurture and spark their students’ inexhaustible
imaginations. 

Mina has been at the Aviary since the start of summer camp 2024.