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Ana Ablamonova is the founder and producer of Operomanija, a production house in Lithuania, dedicated to creation and promotion of new music theatre through diverse cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Since 2008, she has produced around 50 contemporary operas and various multidisciplinary art projects, including opera Have a Good Day! (2013), spatial opera in the dark Confessions (2015), performance of Baroque theatre noise machines Bad Weather (2017), comic strip opera Alpha (2018), sonic experience at the Vilna Ghetto The Filler (2019), etc. Ana runs Contemporary opera festival NOA (New Opera Action) – one of the leading international new music theatre events in the Baltic region. Since 2012, she also serves as Head of the Art Centre at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Dr. Goraparasit is a female digital theatre, performance and experimental film and music video director, lecturer, methodologist and designer. A member of WIF (Women In film, USA) and Lithuanian interdisciplinary artists’ association (LETMEKOO, LIAA). Her Conceptual esthetical interests lies in the depths of the net, the act of browsing in itself is an infinite cognitive journey of collecting and identifying audio-visual experiences by which one learns about the world and through which they recreate a sense of self and collective identity, almost directly illustrated by the performances/films such as Electric Dreams (Israel), Psycho (Lithuania). La Psycho (Los Angeles), Elf-fles (Rome, Italy) and many others where cognitive, digital sciences & faking becomes a tool for creativity and continues performative acts. Artists orchestrates a visual shows with a collage of re-enactments and fragments repeated/giffed by actors with maximum precision using a bodily “lip-sync” technique which all the actors skillfully acquire; her shows are like a Youtube-browsing experience where you would go from one clip to another; sometimes without going too deep into its content; you would recognize some things while other things would slip into the digital abyss without leaving traces. Dr. Goraparasit’s works tend to combine performance, cinema, theatre, neuroscience and digital culture its expressive aesthetical language is screaming for attention; as our daily lives visually overloaded digital reality.
Carey Perloff is a director, writer, producer and educator who recently completed an acclaimed 25-year tenure as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (1992 to 2018). The youngest person ever chosen to lead a LORT theater, Perloff oversaw the rebuilding of the Geary Theater and the creation of A.C.T.’s second stage (The Strand), reanimated ACT’s educational programs and created decades of vigorous, culturally diverse programming with an international focus. Prior to A.C.T., Perloff ran CSC Repertory where she staged the world premiere of Ezra Pound’s Elektra and won an Obie for Excellence. Noted for her collaborations with Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter, Perloff is also a playwright; her work has been produced across the country and in Paris. She’s the author of Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater (City Lights Press 2015) and Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View (Bloomsbury Methuen 2022), was awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and several Honorary Doctorates. B.A., Classics and Comparative Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford, Fulbright Fellowship to Oxford University. She continues to direct around the world, most recently at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Marco Layera is a theater director, teacher and playwright. He studied Law at the University of Chile and specialized in Criminology. After receiving theatrical training at Teatro Escuela La Matriz and Escuela Teatro Imagen he founded in 2008 the company La Re-sentida. His work has been presented in 30 countries and on more than one hundred international stages, including NYU Skirball Center. He gives his theatrical creation a great political responsibility understanding it as an instrument of criticism, reflection and construction.
Martin Valdés-Stauber is a dramaturge and sociologist. He studied economics and sociology in Germany, at UC Berkeley and at the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2017 he became a dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele, which was voted “Theater of the Year” in 2019 and 2020 for the German-speaking countries. Martin Valdés-Stauber has worked so far with Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Milo Rau, Philippe Quesne, Rimini Protokoll, Rabih Mroué and Prodromos Tsinikoris, among others. As a dramaturge he is dedicated to international collaborations, projects in public space, the interface “Arts meet Technology” and alliances with civil society.
ABOUT SEGAL TALKS The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the new line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. Since the beginning in March the series featured over 100 talks with 150 artists from 50 countries. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. After a break in August the series will now also focus on Theatre, Performance and The Political, highlighting the Segal Center’s 2023 New York International Festival of the Arts Project and the Center’s Public Park Project. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating new, original, daily content for the global field of theater and performance. The series was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020.
SEGAL TALKS are free, open access, without ads will be live-streamed in English from Monday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. This program is presented in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College. All SEGAL TALKS are archived on HowlRound, and on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.
The work of the Segal Center has been supported in the past by Susan and Jack Rudin(†), the Hearst Foundation and currently by, Marvin Carlson,Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.
Click Here for Week 13 Participants:Muriel Miguel & Gloria Miguel (US); Daniely Francisque (Martinique); Eugenio Barba (Italy); Paul Pryce (NYC); Liwaa Yazji (Syria)
ABOUT THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center was renamed in March of 1999 to recognize Martin E. Segal, one of New York City’s outstanding leaders of the arts. The Segal Center curates over thirty events throughout the Spring and Fall academic seasons, all free and open to the public. Dedicated to bridging the gap between the professional and academic theatre communities, the Segal Center presents readings, performance, lectures, and artists and academics in conversation. In addition, the Segal Center presents three annual festivals (PRELUDE, PEN World Voices: International Pay Festival, and The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance) and publishes and maintains three open access online journals (Arab Stages, European Stages, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre). The Segal Center also publishes many volumes of plays in translation and is the leading publisher of plays from the Arab world. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC) is a vital component of the Theatre Program’s academic culture and creating in close collaboration a research nexus, focusing on dramaturgy, new media, and global theatre. The Segal Center provides an intimate platform where both artists and theatre professionals can actively participate with audiences to advance awareness and appreciation. www.TheSegalCenter.org
THE SEGAL TEAM Executive Director: Frank Hentschker Associate Producer: Andie Lerner
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, of which the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is an integral part, is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master’s programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world’s leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-eight interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, The Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City’s intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. www.gc.cuny.edu.
HowlRound Theatre Commons at www.HowlRound.com is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. HowlRound envisions a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. HowlRound was founded on an organizing principle in the “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. HowlRound is a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise. It is our strong belief that the power of live theatre connects us across difference, puts us in proximity of one another, and strengthens our tether to our commonalities. HowlRound is based at Emerson College, Boston. http://www.howlround.com
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SEGAL TALKS: Week 37 Artist Lineup
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SEGAL TALKS Week 37
ANA ABLAMONOVA & DR. GORAPARASIT (Lithuania); CAREY PERLOFF (USA); MARCO LAYERA (Chile) & MARTIN VALDES- STAUBER (Germany)
Daily Live Online Conversations on US and Global Theatre & Performance
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 – Thursday, May 21, 2021, 12 noon EDT
“New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht
SEGAL TALKS Week 37 Schedule
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021
12 noon EDT
Ana Ablamonova & Dr. GoraParasit
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Ana Ablamonova is the founder and producer of Operomanija, a production house in Lithuania, dedicated to creation and promotion of new music theatre through diverse cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Since 2008, she has produced around 50 contemporary operas and various multidisciplinary art projects, including opera Have a Good Day! (2013), spatial opera in the dark Confessions (2015), performance of Baroque theatre noise machines Bad Weather (2017), comic strip opera Alpha (2018), sonic experience at the Vilna Ghetto The Filler (2019), etc. Ana runs Contemporary opera festival NOA (New Opera Action) – one of the leading international new music theatre events in the Baltic region. Since 2012, she also serves as Head of the Art Centre at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Dr. Goraparasit is a female digital theatre, performance and experimental film and music video director, lecturer, methodologist and designer. A member of WIF (Women In film, USA) and Lithuanian interdisciplinary artists’ association (LETMEKOO, LIAA). Her Conceptual esthetical interests lies in the depths of the net, the act of browsing in itself is an infinite cognitive journey of collecting and identifying audio-visual experiences by which one learns about the world and through which they recreate a sense of self and collective identity, almost directly illustrated by the performances/films such as Electric Dreams (Israel), Psycho (Lithuania). La Psycho (Los Angeles), Elf-fles (Rome, Italy) and many others where cognitive, digital sciences & faking becomes a tool for creativity and continues performative acts. Artists orchestrates a visual shows with a collage of re-enactments and fragments repeated/giffed by actors with maximum precision using a bodily “lip-sync” technique which all the actors skillfully acquire; her shows are like a Youtube-browsing experience where you would go from one clip to another; sometimes without going too deep into its content; you would recognize some things while other things would slip into the digital abyss without leaving traces. Dr. Goraparasit’s works tend to combine performance, cinema, theatre, neuroscience and digital culture its expressive aesthetical language is screaming for attention; as our daily lives visually overloaded digital reality.
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021
12 noon EDT
Carey Perloff
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Carey Perloff is a director, writer, producer and educator who recently completed an acclaimed 25-year tenure as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (1992 to 2018). The youngest person ever chosen to lead a LORT theater, Perloff oversaw the rebuilding of the Geary Theater and the creation of A.C.T.’s second stage (The Strand), reanimated ACT’s educational programs and created decades of vigorous, culturally diverse programming with an international focus. Prior to A.C.T., Perloff ran CSC Repertory where she staged the world premiere of Ezra Pound’s Elektra and won an Obie for Excellence. Noted for her collaborations with Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter, Perloff is also a playwright; her work has been produced across the country and in Paris. She’s the author of Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater (City Lights Press 2015) and Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View (Bloomsbury Methuen 2022), was awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and several Honorary Doctorates. B.A., Classics and Comparative Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford, Fulbright Fellowship to Oxford University. She continues to direct around the world, most recently at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021
12 noon EDT
Marco Layera & Martin Valdés-Stauber
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Marco Layera is a theater director, teacher and playwright. He studied Law at the University of Chile and specialized in Criminology. After receiving theatrical training at Teatro Escuela La Matriz and Escuela Teatro Imagen he founded in 2008 the company La Re-sentida. His work has been presented in 30 countries and on more than one hundred international stages, including NYU Skirball Center. He gives his theatrical creation a great political responsibility understanding it as an instrument of criticism, reflection and construction.
Martin Valdés-Stauber is a dramaturge and sociologist. He studied economics and sociology in Germany, at UC Berkeley and at the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2017 he became a dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele, which was voted “Theater of the Year” in 2019 and 2020 for the German-speaking countries. Martin Valdés-Stauber has worked so far with Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Milo Rau, Philippe Quesne, Rimini Protokoll, Rabih Mroué and Prodromos Tsinikoris, among others. As a dramaturge he is dedicated to international collaborations, projects in public space, the interface “Arts meet Technology” and alliances with civil society.
ABOUT SEGAL TALKS
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the new line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. Since the beginning in March the series featured over 100 talks with 150 artists from 50 countries. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. After a break in August the series will now also focus on Theatre, Performance and The Political, highlighting the Segal Center’s 2023 New York International Festival of the Arts Project and the Center’s Public Park Project. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating new, original, daily content for the global field of theater and performance. The series was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020.
SEGAL TALKS are free, open access, without ads will be live-streamed in English from Monday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. This program is presented in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College. All SEGAL TALKS are archived on HowlRound, and on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.
The work of the Segal Center has been supported in the past by Susan and Jack Rudin(†), the Hearst Foundation and currently by, Marvin Carlson,Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.
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PARTICIPANTS FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEKS
Click Here for Week 36 Participants: Abhishek Majumdar & Anurupa Roy (India); Bettina Milz, Stefan Schmidtke & Olaf Kröck (Germany); 2021 DTSA Booth Award Honoring Diana Taylor
Click Here for Week 35 Participants: Chris Myers (NYC): Lucien Zayan & Raja Feather Kelly (NYC); Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
Click Here for Week 34 Participants: Joseph Melillo (NYC)
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Click Here for Week 28 Participants: Samuel Buggeln (Canada); Helen Shaw (NYC); Bertie Ferdman (NYC)
Click Here for Week 27 Participants: Sebastian Kaiser (Germany); Anne Cattaneo & Sydné Mahone (US); Peter Eckersall (NYC)
Click Here for Week 26 Participants: Hotel Modern (Netherlands); Rabih Mroué (Germany); Nicolas Kent (England); Co-host: Carol Martin
Click Here for Week 25 Participants: George Bartenieff & Karen Malpede (NYC); Simon Dove & Megha Ralapati (US); Susan Feldman (NYC)
Click Here for Week 24 Participants: Kelsey Pyro (Good Byes); Mei Ann Teo (hold) Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Vichitra) Zachariah Ezer & Dominique Rider (SPEEDRUN); Bryn Herdrich, Jeesun Choi (Penny Thoughts) and Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins, Greig Sargeant and Ben Williams (Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge); Stefania Bulbarella (Una niña, una familia, un pueblo), Yeujia Low (Animal Empire); Le’Andra LeSeur (Passing Time With Grace); and Dena Igusti (CUT WOMAN)
Click Here for Week 23 Participants: Jay Wegman (NYC); Anne Hamburger (NYC); Sean Anthony Chia, Dohyun Gracia Shin, Cory Tamler, Gabriel Torres, & Luke Pearlberg (NYC);
Click Here for Week 22 Participants: Handan Ozbilgin (NYC); Florian Malzacher (Germany); Kaatje De Geest, Carmen Hornbostel & Milo Rau (Belgium)
Click Here for Week 21 Participants: Tom Walker (NYC); Sade Lythcott (NYC): Saviana Stănescu
Click Here for Week 20 Participants: Baraka Sele (US); Tania El Khoury & Gideon Lester (US); David Bruin & Miranda Haymon (US)
Click Here for Week 19 Participants: Marvin Carlson (NYC); Andras Forgach, Hannah Milovits & Laszlo Upor (Hungary); Dima Mikhayel Matta & Sahar Assaf (Lebanon)
Click Here for Week 18 Participants: Jacques Rancière (France); Morgan Jenness (NYC); Helly Minarti(Indonesia); Dima Mikhayel Matta & Yara Bou Nassar (Lebanon); Richard Schechner (NYC)
Click Here for Week 17 Participants: Acia Gray, Deborah Mitchell & Tony Waag (US); Carl Hancock Rux(US); Philippe Quesne (France); Betty Shamieh (US); Adelheid Roosen & Melanie Joseph(Netherlands/US)
Click Here for Week 16 Participants: Ping Chong (NYC); Susanne Kennedy (Germany); Lee Breuer & Maude Mitchell (NYC); Tiago Rodrigues (Portugal); Caridad Svich (US)
Click Here for Week 15 Participants: Karishma Bhagani, Anne Moraa & Sitawa Namwalie (Kenya); Émilie Monnet & Greg Hill (Canada); Satoko Ichihara (Japan); Niegel Smith (NYC);Jean-Claude van Itallie (US)
Click Here for Week 14 Participants: Kemi Ilesanmi & Ebony Noelle Golden (NYC); Gianina Cărbunariu (Romania) & Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo); Frédérique Aït-Touati (France); Iman Aoun (Palestine); Evoné Walters (Jamaica)
Click Here for Week 13 Participants: Muriel Miguel & Gloria Miguel (US); Daniely Francisque (Martinique); Eugenio Barba (Italy); Paul Pryce (NYC); Liwaa Yazji (Syria)
Click Here for Week 12 Participants: Peter Schumann (US); Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia); Tania Bruguera (Cuba); Hope Azeda (Rwanda); Saman Amini (Netherlands/Iran)
Click Here for Week 11 Participants: Jonathan McCrory & Ngozi Anyanwu (NYC); James Scruggs & Tamilla Woodard (NYC); Jean-Luc Nancy (France); Awoye Timpo (NYC); Woodie King Jr. (NYC)
Click Here for Week 10 Participants: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota (France); Ralph B. Peña (USA/NYC); Ruth Kanner, Joshua Sobol, Maya Arad Yasur (Israel); Avra Sidiropoulou (Greece); Ashley Tata (USA/NYC)
Click Here for Week 9 Participants: Kris Verdonck (Belgium); Aina Tur (Spain); Anne Bogart (New York, USA); Patricia Cornelius (Australia); Hoi Fai Wu (Hong Kong)
Click Here for Week 8 Participants: Maria Tri Sulistyani (Indonesia); Pamela Villoresi (Italy); Richard Foreman (USA); Thomas Oberender (Germany); Phillip Howze & Jordana De La Cruz(USA)
Click Here for Week 7 Participants: Ismail Mahomed (South Africa); Natalia Vorozhbit(Ukraine);Amir Nizar Zuabi & Fidaa Zaidan (Palestine); Roberta Estrela D’alva & Dione Carlos(Brazil); Edouard Elvis Bvouma & Hermine Yollo (Cameroon)
Click Here for Week 6 Participants: Andrea Tompa & Anna Lengyel (Hungary); Lola Arias (Argentina); Mihaela Drăgan & Mihaela Michailov (Romania); Zuleikha Allana (India); Stacy Klein & Stephanie Monseu (USA)
Click Here for Week 5 Participants: Rimini Protokoll’s Daniel Wetzel, Helgard Haug, & Stefan Kaegi(Germany); Guy Régis Jr (Haiti); Jalila Baccar (Tunis); Peter Sellars (USA); Oskar Eustis& Tony Torn(NYC, USA)
Click Here for Week 4 Participants: Milo Rau (Switzerland); Richard Schechner (NYC, US); Basil Jones(South Africa); Arthur Nauzyciel & Keren Ann (France); Guillermo Calderón(Chile)
Click Here for Week 3 Participants: The New BlackFest’s Keith Adkins with Dennis A. Allen II, France-Luce Benson, & Lisa Strum (NYC); Nature Theatre of Oklahoma’s Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska + The Big Dance Theatre’s Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar (NYC); The Foundry Theatre’s Melanie Joseph with Aaron Landsman & Aurin Squire (NYC); Shahid Nadeem (Pakistan) + Abhishek Majumdar & Anurupa Roy (India); TR Warszawa’s Grzegorz Jarzynawith Agata Kołacz & Roman Pawłowski (Poland)
Click Here for Week 2 Participants: Laila Soliman, Dalia Basiouny (Egypt) + Sahar Assaf(Lebanon); Chou Tung-Yen, Kathy Hong, Wu-Kang Chen (Taiwan); Lucia Calamaro, Graziano Graziani, Valeria Orani (Italy); Meredith Monk (New York, US); Aristide Tarnagda & Safoura Kaboré (Burkina Faso)
Click Here for Week 1 Participants: Taylor Mac & Kristin Marting (New York, US); Mok Chiu Yu(Hong Kong) + Hanchen Feng, Shuyi Liao (China); Thomas Ostermeier (Germany); Teatro delle Albe’s Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari (Italy); Toshiki Okada (Japan)
ABOUT THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER
Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center was renamed in March of 1999 to recognize Martin E. Segal, one of New York City’s outstanding leaders of the arts. The Segal Center curates over thirty events throughout the Spring and Fall academic seasons, all free and open to the public. Dedicated to bridging the gap between the professional and academic theatre communities, the Segal Center presents readings, performance, lectures, and artists and academics in conversation. In addition, the Segal Center presents three annual festivals (PRELUDE, PEN World Voices: International Pay Festival, and The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance) and publishes and maintains three open access online journals (Arab Stages, European Stages, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre). The Segal Center also publishes many volumes of plays in translation and is the leading publisher of plays from the Arab world. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC) is a vital component of the Theatre Program’s academic culture and creating in close collaboration a research nexus, focusing on dramaturgy, new media, and global theatre. The Segal Center provides an intimate platform where both artists and theatre professionals can actively participate with audiences to advance awareness and appreciation. www.TheSegalCenter.org
THE SEGAL TEAM
Executive Director: Frank Hentschker
Associate Producer: Andie Lerner
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, of which the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is an integral part, is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master’s programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world’s leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-eight interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, The Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City’s intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. www.gc.cuny.edu.
HowlRound Theatre Commons at www.HowlRound.com is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. HowlRound envisions a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. HowlRound was founded on an organizing principle in the “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. HowlRound is a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise. It is our strong belief that the power of live theatre connects us across difference, puts us in proximity of one another, and strengthens our tether to our commonalities. HowlRound is based at Emerson College, Boston. http://www.howlround.com