Conversation w/ Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury—Company One & ArtsEmerson—Boston—Sun, Jan 19, 2014
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2014-08-19

Company One Theatre, in collaboration with ArtsEmerson, host playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for a conversation about her play, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.

This conversation will livestream on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday, January 19 at 12:45pm PST / 2:45pm CST / 3:45pm EST / 20:45 GMT. In Twitter, use hashtag #howlround and follow @Company_One and @HowlRoundTV.

About the Play:
The personal and political, humorous and harrowing collide in this exhilaratingly irreverent play from Boston's own Company One Theatre. A rehearsal room descends from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors attempt to dramatize the little-known first genocide of the 20th century. But as the ensemble wrestles with this remote story, tensions mount, and their exploration hits much closer to home than anybody expected. One of The New York Timestop ten plays of 2012, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation... is an innovative, fast-paced, and uncomfortably funny take on race, empathy and the devastating consequences of our best intentions.

About Jackie Sibblies Drury:
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 had its its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and its New York premiere at Soho Rep in Fall 2012. Jackie’s work has been featured at PRELUDE’11, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Victory Gardens 2010 Ignition Festival, American Theater Company’s 10 x 10 Festival, and The Magic Theatre’s Virgin Play Festival. Jackie received a 2012-13 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She was a member of the 2011-12 Soho Rep Writer/Director lab, a 2010-12 New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artist of Color Fellow, and member of The Civilians’ R&D Group. She was the dramaturg and contributing writer for Zero Cost House, a collaboration between Pig Iron Theatre Company and Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a MacDowell Colony fellow and is on committees to organize classes for Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops and The Public School New York. She is a graduate of Brown’s MFA playwriting program, where she received the David Wickham Prize in Playwriting. Her play Social Creatures was commissioned by Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence RI and premiered there in March 2013. Jackie is the inaugural recipient of the 2012-14 Jerome New York Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center.
 
About Company One:
Founded in 1998, Company One Theatre was recently named "Boston's Best Theatre Company" by The Improper Bostonian and "One of the most inspiring and innovative theatre companies on our national landscape” by the American Theatre Wing. Company One Theatre’s mission is to change the face of Boston theatre by uniting the city’s diverse communities through socially provocative performance and the development of civically engaged artists. The award-winning company has been instrumental in bringing younger and more diverse audiences to see and participate in socially and politically relevant theatre.
 
About ArtsEmerson:
ArtsEmerson opened in the fall of 2010 with two central commitments: 1.) To expand Boston’s cultural landscape by giving audiences the opportunity to experience work from across this country and around the world that adds to the cultural choices for the community, and 2.) To support the development of new work through selected multi-year commitments to artists, ensembles, and world-renowned institutions. At the heart of its mission, ArtsEmerson seeks to redefine the relationship between artist and audience and the impact of theatre on the community. Through performance programs, ongoing artist residencies, and repeated engagements with ensembles, audiences see how work evolves over time and as a result connect to the artists’ deeper ambitions and process. This investment not only strengthens the bond between artists and audiences, but allows for a highly interactive exchange that helps to realize the full potential of the arts in the life and character of the city.

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