Sejahari Saulter-Villegas

On October 21, 2025, Saulter-Villegas performed at Joe’s Pub for Seriously Entertaining: “Mind the Gap” in collaboration with the Association of Marshall Scholars.

Sejahari Saulter-Villegas describes himself as “a Blaxican multidisciplinary storyteller and father from the West Side of Chicago using his voice to uplift, advocate for, and represent black and brown stories.” His work moves fluidly across disciplines—music, film, theater, spoken word, and fashion—but always returns to storytelling. Rooted in both vulnerability and power, his performances embody a practice of healing, community building, and liberation.

Saulter-Villegas has won a national title as a spoken word artist, received the Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Excellence Award, and performed at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway as a finalist in the National August Wilson Monologue Competition. His recent projects include Pretty Boy, a short film he wrote, produced, and starred in, which grew out of a poem he first drafted in 2017. As a Marshall scholar, he has completed an MA in race, media, and social justice at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is now pursuing a second master’s in filmmaking at the London Film Academy.