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Recent Essays

This is a repository of written content, sorted by most recent to oldest. Enjoy!

Essay
6 July 2021

Jen Marlowe shares how her documentary play There Is A Field became a framework for exploring Black-Palestinian solidarity.

Figure with bulbs of fire
Essay

An Audio Essay and Sound-Ceremony for Reciprocal Action

2 July 2021

Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen shares how new story bundles can “disrupt the noise of colonialism” through what she calls protocols of theatrical Indigeneity.

Dice
Essay
1 July 2021

Carra Martinez, with thoughts from Justin Favela, Ty Defoe, Ron Berry, and Leyya Tawi, writes about how the future is a structurally minded labor of the everyday.

A Black woman with her hair wrapped on the top of her head and her right hand up.
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The Responsibility of Theatre, and the Imagining of a World Without Oppression

29 June 2021

Dane Figueroa Edidi muses on how imagination provides the power to conjure an equitable theatre.

An illustration of a woman in a green dress holding a stick up to a circular light above. She is surrounded by plenty of these lights, each connected by lines.
Essay

Notes on a Future That Has Already Happened

28 June 2021

Matthew Glassman shares his commonplace—a collection of quotes, poems, reflections, dreams, doodles, images, and more, and a portal to reach forward to our future selves and for our future selves to reach back to us.

Nine actresses in soccer uniforms with most of them doing goofy gestures. Some have orange peels in their mouths.
Essay
10 June 2021

Alix Rosenfeld offers suggestions for nonprofits seeking to move out of a scarcity mindset, embrace a spirit of abundance, and build pathways to a more ethical and equitable ecosystem.

Jacqueline Flores
Essay
9 June 2021

Join us in welcoming Jacqueline, our new Latinx Theatre Commons Producer!

A blue thing surrounded by indoor palm trees.
Essay
8 June 2021

Jonathan Mandell reflects on his experience of A Dozen Dreams, an art installation that began when twelve New York City-based women playwrights were asked: “What are you dreaming about right now?”

The silhouettes of a Black woman and a Black man in an embrace against a pink-purple ombre background.
Essay
7 June 2021

Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson believes that when it comes to intimacy directing, choreography can celebrate Black love as an act of racial and sexual justice.

Left: Three actors in black with two of them sitting on the ground and looking down. The actor in the center looks up and sits on a higher level. Right: Three actors standing side-by-side.
Essay
3 June 2021

The International Presenting Commons shares a statement on how and why arts presenters and creative independent producers have come together to sustain and evolve a commitment to international cultural exchange and engagement.

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