The Public Announces 2020-22 Emerging Writers Group
The group includes Nissy Aya, Aya Aziz, Francisca Da Silveira, Katie Do, Timothy DuWhite, Ying Ying Li, Julián Mesri, AriDy Nox, Jacob Marx Rice, and Else Went.
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The group includes Nissy Aya, Aya Aziz, Francisca Da Silveira, Katie Do, Timothy DuWhite, Ying Ying Li, Julián Mesri, AriDy Nox, Jacob Marx Rice, and Else Went.
A series of short commissioned audio plays explores the future of the city of Boston.
Zoom plays, audio dramas, virtual tours, even a live-stream of an empty stage to fill your lockdown hours.
This year’s list honors productions postponed or canceled due to the pandemic.
Also leaving the company as of June 30, 2020, was associate producing director Lesley Greene.
The New Mexico performer/writer/activist talks storytelling, systemic inequity, and Indigenous representation.
Next spring the theatre plans to mount ‘Caroline, or Change’ and ‘1776,’ and in the fall and winter, ‘Birthday Candles’ and ‘Trouble in Mind,’ in its belated Main Stem bow.
25 artists have been engaged to come up with a slate of new work, with forms and delivery methods to be determined.
Networks should borrow a model from the 1950s television series which broadcast exciting new plays live from the studio.
She is an Arizona native with extensive ties in the local theatre community.