1st Edition
Applied Theatre and Racial Justice Care, Community, Change
Offering 1: Contemplating Liberatory Practices
1. Contemplative Practices for Theatrical Interventions and Living
Mei Ann Teo
2. Cyphers and Verse: A Hiphopography of bkSOUL
Ant Black and grace shinhae jun
3. Activating the Ancestral Body: Embodied Performance and Self-Development
Jake Àjéwọ̀lè Stanton
4. Dance of the Orcas: Narrative Medicine for Undrowning
Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green
Offering 2: Changing the Center in Teaching and Learning
5. Indigenous Youth: Performance, Identity, and Cultural Reclamation
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and María Rocha
6. Liberating the Classroom: Academic Theatre and Calls for Change
Aviva Neff
7. Transcultural Playwriting: What Happens When We Meet?
Ana Candida Carneiro
8. Changing the Center: Utilizing Black Pedagogy to Prioritize Cultural Competency in Theatre Training
Kaja Dunn
Offering 3: Building Community with Care
9. Anti-Racist Theatre: A Directorial Practice of Healing in Fires in the Mirror
Nicole Brewer
10. Role Play, Embodiment, and Our Histories
Channie Waites
11. Embodied Truth: Finding Ways to Move Together
Daniel Burkholder and Kimani Fowlin
12. The Minor Aesthetics of Falling: Reframing “Left-Behind” Children in Rural China
Wenxuan Xue
Offering 4: Performing Black Feminisms
13. Embodying the Headlines: Performing Sandra Bland
Brittney Harris
14. Performing Black Feminist Abolition
Nicholas Fesette
15. Making Colors: A Black Queer Feminist Experiment in Solo Performance
Kristyl D. Tift
Offering 5: Reckoning with History
16. Planting “Seeds of Freedom”: Drama and Youth Activism in Mississippi 1964
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
17. The American Slavery Project: Performance and Education
Judy Tate and Melissa Murray-Mutch
18. Building the Next Black Wall Street: Michelle Brown-Burdex and the Tulsa Greenwood Summer Arts Entrepreneur Camp
Tara Brooke Watkins
19. Chicago’s Free Street Theater and The Radically Ordinary Art of Showing Up
Coya Paz Brownrigg
Offering 6: Gathering ‘Round the Table
Roundtable 1. Contemplating Liberatory Practices
Ant Black, Eunice S. Ferreira, Omiyemi Artisia Green, grace shinae jun, Mei Ann Teo, and Jake Àjéwọ̀lè Stanton
Roundtable 2. Changing the Center in Teaching and Learning
Lisa Biggs, Ana Candida Carneiro, Kaja Dunn, Eunice S. Ferreira, Aviva Neff, and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Roundtable 3. Building Community with Care
Lisa Biggs, Nicole Brewer, Daniel Burkholder, Eunice S. Ferreira, Kimani Fowlin, Nikki Olusanya, Mark VanDerzee, Channie Waites, and Wenxuan Xue
Roundtable 4. Performing Black Feminisms
Shamell Bell, Lisa Biggs, Eunice S. Ferreira, Nicholas Fesette, Brittney Harris, Antonio David Lyons, and Kristyl D. Tift
Roundtable 5. Reckoning with History
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Lisa Biggs, Melissa Murray-Mutch, Coya Paz Brownrigg, Judy Tate, and Tara Brooke Watkins
Biography
Lisa Biggs is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University, U.S.A., where she teaches theatre and performance studies. She is an actor, playwright, and the recipient of the 2023 Lila A. Heston Award from the National Communications Association and the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Eunice S. Ferreira is an associate professor in the Theater Department at Skidmore College, U.S.A., where she teaches Black theatre, theatre history, mixed race performance, translation, and theatre for social justice and change. She is a director, dramaturg, actor, and a leading scholar on theatre of Cabo Verde, West Africa.
