Playwriting

Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

My mission is to keep culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval

Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval

Karen use of the play happens in a most amazing and in a structurally brilliant way. She puts two goddesses that appear to teach us a lesson about how lives…

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Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness

Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness

Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limits except for those you place on…

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Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum through The Arts

Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum through The Arts

Theatre is the one area, aside from religion, where people are presented with stories; they can hear them, they can see vicariously what can happen. They have a conversation with…

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Pat Addiss: Humble Guru

Pat Addiss: Humble Guru

I don't know all the answers. I mean I'm not some Great Guru. I just know what I know. I just know what has transpired in my life. You have…

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Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power

Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power

We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel…

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Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal

Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal

We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing themselves reflected in work, in all…

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Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice

Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice

Learning through The Arts being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in their feelings and…

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Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn

Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn

I am encouraging my students to be students of the world: to look around them, to see what's happening, see how their lives are affected by world events and the…

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Joan Kane: Speaking Truth

Joan Kane: Speaking Truth

I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a time period in Brooklyn where racism was horrific and it was…

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Emma Palzere-Rae: Raising Representation Awareness

Emma Palzere-Rae: Raising Representation Awareness

Theatre is a way to bring people together in a non-confrontational way. You could do theatre as a political act and say it's a political act; you can do theatre…

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Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary

Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary

The Greeks believed that theatre was threefold: to entertain, to educate, and exalt the human spirit. And if we're going to exalt the human spirit we're gonna have to understand…

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Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success

Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success

Actors Equity is opening its doors. I think this is one of the most exciting things that's happening in my almost two decades as a Union member. It shifts the…

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Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

I believe we're broken. Everybody is broken in some way. Everybody has a story to tell. There are cracks in us...Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects by…

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Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

I believe we're broken. Everybody is broken in some way. Everybody has a story to tell. There are cracks in us...Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects by…

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Iman Aoun: Breaking Down Walls &Cultivating Hope Through Theatre

Iman Aoun: Breaking Down Walls &Cultivating Hope Through Theatre

For over thirty-five years, Iman Aoun, a theatre-maker from Palestine has dedicated herself to advancing her mission of “breaking down walls” that exist as both physical and psychological phenomena by…

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