Hosted by

Catherine

Whiteman

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Produced by

Echo

Theatre

October 15, 2020 / Rhiana Yazzie Season 1: Episode 3

Navajo playwright, filmmaker, director, performer, and producer...based in the Twin Cities and founded New Native Theater in 2009...2018/19 Bush Leadership Fellow...2017 Sally Award Winner for Vision...2016/2017 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fellow, 2010/2011 and 2006/2007 Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow...Playwrights’ Center Core Member for three years.  She is in post production with her first feature film, A WINTER LOVE (writer/director/starring). 

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New Native Theatre is a new way of looking at, thinking about, and staging Native American stories.  NNT produces, commissions, and devises authentic Native American stories for the stage which means NNT’s artists are intricately connected to the concerns and voices of their communities. Meant to be played for its most vital audience, Native people, because stories made for the Native community become undeniably powerful for the broader community too, no translations required.

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September 30, 2020 / Ann Timmons  Season 1: Episode 2 

MFA in Acting, University of Illinois...NYC to seek her fortune...honed playwriting skills at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Produced one-woman show, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Off-Broadway; toured it nationally for 16 years. Other productions explore accepted history, featuring protagonists who upend the status quo. …actor…director…playwright...communication coach...producer.

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Ann is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, The Playwrights Circle, and is a founding producing playwright of the Pipeline Playwrights, a collective of five women committed to supporting, promoting, and presenting each other’s work, with the goal getting more women’s stories onstage and into the local and national theatre pipeline.

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September 15, 2020 / Caridad Svich  Season 1: Episode 1 

2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement Playwright… 2018 ATHE Ellen Stewart Career Achievement in Professional Theatre… 2018 Tanne Foundation Award… songwriter…translator…editor…educator.

Born in the US of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents.   

 

"As a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator living between many cultures, including inherited ones,

the idea of departure has always been not only an actual or metaphorical basis for writing the work, but

also an idea made manifest through the enactment of writing, its performance, and my living of it."