While vastly different in their approaches to “theater,” every individual artist and/or ensemble is experimenting with the creation and distribution of original, non-dominant socio-cultural narratives.
Please join us in celebrating all 15 text-based performance works:
- A Contemporary Theatre for Tale of the Heike by Philip Kan Gotanda, Yussef El Guindi, Kurt Beattie
- American Conservatory Theater for Port City by Christopher Chen
- Appalshop (Roadside Theater) for Performing Our Rural Future by Roadside Theater
- CalArts Center for New Performance for Carolyn Bryant Project by Nataki Garrett, Andrea LeBlanc
- Fractured Atlas sponsoring Slave Rebellion Reenactment by Dread Scott
- Hidden Voices for Serving Life by Lynden Harris, Kathryn Hunter-Williams
- Junebug Productions sponsoring ALLEGED LESBIAN ACTIVITIES by Last Call: New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project
- MAPP International Productions for The Peculiar Patriot by Liza Jessie Peterson
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for Chicago project (not yet titled) by Anthony Joel Romero, Teatro Línea de Sombra
- Network of Ensemble Theaters sponsoring Plantation Remix by Cristal Truscott, Progress Theatre
- Penumbra Theatre for GIRL Shakes Loose Her Skin by Zakiyyah Alexander, Imani Uzuri
- Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (Alliance Theatre) for Scenes of Buford Highway by Mark Valdez, Soul Food Cypher
- St. Ann’s Warehouse for A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music by Taylor Mac, Machine Dazzle, Niegel Smith
- Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Project for Chicano Roots Rehab by Anthony Garcia, Daniel Valdez
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts for And So We Walked – An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears by DeLanna Studi, Corey Madden