A Conversation with Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury at Company One

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.

 

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.

 

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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