Arts Advocacy

Irina Kruzhilina: Fierce Frontrunner on Immigration

Irina Kruzhilina: Fierce Frontrunner on Immigration

I want to educate the public about what’s happening in the immigration crisis itself and inside the courts, about the refugees and how they are treated here, but also to…

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Rosie Stewart: Freedom-to-Read Revelations

Rosie Stewart: Freedom-to-Read Revelations

Why is freedom to read so important? I think we take for granted the idea that a multiplicity of voices are accessible to us, and our libraries are places that…

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Laura Raicovich: Fall of Freedom

Laura Raicovich: Fall of Freedom

One of the major ideas behind Fall of Freedom was not only to get some bold-faced names involved to this project to attract involvement, but to get regular folks to…

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Lina AbiRafeh: Women’s Rights in Dark Times

Lina AbiRafeh: Women’s Rights in Dark Times

Holding women back doesn't just harm women, it holds everyone back - our economies, our nations, our future. If inequality is limiting us all, why aren't we doing anything to fix…

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Amanda DuBois: Getting Lives Back on Track

Amanda DuBois: Getting Lives Back on Track

I came up with this idea that we would have workshops, and we would have formerly incarcerated people come to the workshops, and we would teach them about organizing and…

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Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

  We are making sure that the arts remain independent, well-funded, and accessible for all. Anytime anything rears its ugly head to challenge that, we will be there fighting for…

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Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Episode 100! I don’t really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I’m not interested in someone coming in that’s completely done and…

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Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

  Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a theoretically defunct…

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Tish Rabe: The Singing Children’s Author

Tish Rabe: The Singing Children’s Author

This new book I've written SWEET DREAMS AHEAD FOR BED is a story that literally outlines the steps for getting ready for sleep for babies to four-year-olds. Also, in the…

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Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice

Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice

Whether it's about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I feel that, especially theatre, is like a mirror that…

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Dr. Solanges Vivens: An Audacious Act

Dr. Solanges Vivens: An Audacious Act

Age tells us one thing: the day you were born and the day you will die, and there's a dash in between. And you know what? That dash is ME!…

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Cynthia Grace Robinson: Writing About Women

Cynthia Grace Robinson: Writing About Women

I love writing about women because this is how women are, and we're so diverse, right? We show our power in so many different ways, and sometimes it's not a…

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Karen E. Osborne: A Novel Recipe

Karen E. Osborne: A Novel Recipe

What I really wanted to do was to show a strong, flawed woman - a hundred years ago! - dealing with the same issues that strong, flawed women are dealing…

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Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting

Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting

What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place…

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Adam Davenport: The Power of the Actor

Adam Davenport: The Power of the Actor

For me, acting is the greatest tool we have right now to teach people empathy. Because empathy requires you to put yourself squarely in the shoes of another person. I…

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Zibby Owens: Publishing Pitfalls

Zibby Owens: Publishing Pitfalls

In BLANK, I wanted to open readers' eyes a little bit more to the inner workings of the publishing world. I started as an aspiring author then became an author…

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Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count

Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count

Holding people's feet to the fire by just saying, 'You know what, you may think that a lot of women are being hired.' 'I've done five shows last season, isn't…

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Alyssa Simon: An Actor Commits

Alyssa Simon: An Actor Commits

I came to New York to meet people I read about in college like Joe Chaiken and Judith Malina, and I met them! I took workshops with Joe Chaiken, and…

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