Drama Across Borders - International Theatre Exchange
A panel of theatre professionals/academics will discuss the benefits and challenges of working internationally on inter-cultural multi-lingual performing arts projects.
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Our panelists will talk about their experiences of working in various countries or in the US - as playwrights, directors, curators, etc - on theatre projects involving international artists and cross-cultural translation/collaboration.
We will also discuss interdisciplinary praxis focusing on theatre, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, and how performance can function as a strategy for social change.
Joan Appell Lipkin, Producing Artistic Director of That Uppity Theatre Company (Creating Performance and Working for Social Justice since 1989) will discuss her work in Belgrade and Sarajevo, writing and directing a play focused on LGBTQ+ issues in the Balkans.
African-American playwright Michael Bradford, Artistic Director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre, will talk about his residency in Granada, Spain, working on a play about the death of poet Federico García Lorca.
Patrizia Acerra, founding and executive director of International Voices Project in Chicago, will elaborate on her experience of curating and producing a festival of international plays in translation, as well as directing international plays.
Saviana Stanescu (Condeescu) will interrogate her recent experience of going back to Bucharest, Romania, to write The Revolution Project, a new play about the Romanian revolution in 1989 (in which she participated as a college student, protesting in the streets of Bucharest to end the totalitarian regime of dictator Ceausescu), with a focus on the role of theatre artists as powerful agents for social change in/after times of great upheaval.