The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Penda Diouf and Marine Bachelot Nguyen (France) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 11 June 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Penda Diouf is an author, playwright, and librettist based in Lille. Together with Anthony Thibault, she co-founded the label Jeunes Textes en Liberté. She is an associate artist at the Centre dramatique national de Valence, lead by Marc Lainé, and frequently gives writing workshops. Her play La Grande Ourse is published by Quartett éditions, while her play Pistes..., published in January 2021, tours Germany and France in a staging by Aristide Tarnagda as part of the Festival d’Automne in 2020/21.
Marine Bachelot Nguyen is playwright and director (Lumière d’août, France). She explores the alliance of fiction and document, the intersection of body and politics, feminist and postcolonial issues. Her recent works are Les ombres et les lèvres, Circulations Capitales and Akila, le tissu d’Antigone. With Le fils she won the Sony Labou Tansi Prize and the Primeurs Prize (Saarbrücken). Her plays are published by Lansman.
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