Testify is an evening-length multimedia theatrical performance created, conceived, and performed by performance and visual artist Vanessa German. With film, three-dimensional sculpture, live performance, music and movement, testify will tell the story of how street violence effects the lives of a group of people.  Testify will use the first hand interviews, of community members, victims and perpetrators of violence and crime and healing professions to build a story of pain, loss, triumph and transformation.

Vanessa German is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, born in Wisconsin, raised in Los Angeles and Loveland, Ohio. A poet, actress, sculptor, designer, educator and photographer, she believes in the seamlessness of creative process and purpose. Her performance training is from the Los Angeles Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, South West College, University of Cincinnati, and the Los Angeles Theater Academy. In 2007 German collaborated with a group of artists to create Rise, which she directed, produced and starred in for the Pittsburgh International First Voice Festival. The award-winning actress has performed in many regional productions including Fire, Relativity, Loud, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson and The Vagina Monologues. As a playwright her Pieces won Best Play in the Black and White Theater festival. She is also a nationally recognized performance poet, and an award winning mixed-media sculptor and photographer.