SEGAL TALKS Daniely Francisque on Tuesday 23 June 2020
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2020-06-23

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS: Daniely Francisque livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 23 June 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).

Daniely Francisque, a French-caribbean actress, director and playwright, is one of the leading figures in contemporary theatre in Martinique. She is the co-artistic director of TRACK Company. Since 1994, Daniely has performed in around fifty theatrical, choreographic, musical plays, movies and tv shows. In 2018, she was awarded Best Actress in Toronto and Marseille for Torment of Love directed by Caroline Jules.

She directs and designs productions with strong visual, physical and emotional impact, questioning identity, intimacy, memory in post-colonial societies. Daniely Francisque was one of the playwrights of the Caribbean Theater Action Project at METSC in December 2019. Her play Cyclones, performed in Caribbean islands, France, Miami, Congo, has recently been published by Lansman Éditeur. Cyclones (Hurricanes) as well as Ladjables (She-Devil) have both been translated into English. In 2019, she was named Knight of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France.

ABOUT SEGAL TALKS:

SEGAL TALKS is a daily one-hour LIVE online conversation from Monday to Friday about making art and making sense in the Time of Corona.

SEGAL TALKS was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020.

SEGAL TALKS has been made possible by the support of Susan and Jack Rudin, the Hearst Foundation, and Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.

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