D.C. Resilience and Resistance in Mosaic Theater’s Reflection Series
The Washington theatre commissioned 4 artists to share creative writing, performance, and video responses to the past year of living under National Guard occupation.
Category Archives: Creative Writing
So Let the Fireworks Come
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can’t be untold.
An Excerpt From ‘Antíkoni’
This adaptation of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’ centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
An Excerpt From ‘Yuchewahkénh (Bitter)’
Vickie Ramirez’s play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
That Banyan Tree
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
Monologues and Mayday in Minneapolis
In defiance of early 2026’s harrowing ICE/CBP occupation, Mixed Blood Theatre commissioned theatre artists to process and document the moment.
How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist’s Way
Stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world, and how they walk with us today.
Stamp Me
Yussef El Guindi’s short play follows Ahmed as he waits in line to get his passport stamped.
My Body, Your Body (Where you from?)
In this poem, Antu Yacob explores where she’s from.
Husks from Iran
An excerpt from the script of a new work involving puppetry and projections.
