R&D Group Members Brandy Hoang Collier, Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and Erika Ji answer questions about theater, storytelling, and the creative process behind their new musical, YOKO’S HUSBAND’S KILLER’S JAPANESE WIFE, GLORIA, which will be presented in the FINDINGS Series on June 16th.
R&D Group member Julia Izumi outlines the timeline of the Great Chicago Fire ahead of her new play, A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE IMAGINED TRIAL OF DAISY THE COW ?, WHO ALLEGEDLY CAUSED THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, presented in the Findings Series on June 14th.
R&D Group member Andrew Saito discusses the inspiration for BLACKANESE, presented in the FINDINGS Series on June 8th.
R&D Group Member Xandra Nur Clark delves into the creation of their play URSA MAJOR, which will be presented in The Civilians’ Findings Series this June.
R&D Group members Adam Chanler-Berat and Julian Hornik provide a glimpse at their new musical, ASSISTED, which will be presented in The Civilians’ Findings Series this June.
R&D Group member Divya Mangwani invites you into the creative process behind her project through a game of Pachisi.
R&D Group member Calley N. Anderson takes us through the process of conceiving her new play, SOMEONE ELSE’S BULLET.
R&D Group Member Denmo Ibrahim tells how her mother’s story and the interviews she gathered in Bay Ridge shaped her new piece, KHADIJA SAVES THE WORLD.
R&D Group Member Aeneas Sagar Hemphill discusses the harsh reality of the New York taxi driver, the inspiration behind his new play, WAIT NO LONGER.
R&D Group Members and collaborators Eric Marlin and Lila Rachel Becker interview each other on the creation process for UNTITLED JEWISH PIRATE PLAY, generating a project together for the first time, and the history of Jewish pirates.
R&D Group Member Liba Vaynberg provides a glimpse into the interview process for her piece, The Matriarchs.
R&D Group Member Phillip Gregory Burke describes the path that led him to create his current R&D play, THE SUNCATCHERS OF SAHEL: AN ANCESTRAL TALE TOLD TO TODAY’S GRIOT, PART I & II. This is Part II of his tale.
R&D Group Member Phillip Gregory Burke describes the path that led him to create his current R&D play, THE SUNCATCHERS OF SAHEL: AN ANCESTRAL TALE TOLD TO TODAY’S GRIOT, PART I & II. This is Part I of his tale.
R&D Group alumnus Tylie Shider writes a love letter to creators for whom human contact is a part of their art, lost by the pandemic.
The Civilians will welcome seven new members to the group of writers and directors in its eleventh season.
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