Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
Iranian Girlfriend explores the complex relationship between fact and fiction—a dynamic that played out in its journey from autobiographical essay to autofictional play. Creator SB Tennent discusses the play’s origins, process, and ambitions with Georgia Evans.
Ash Marinaccio and the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group discuss investigative theatre, how artists blend research, interviews, and emotional truth to create new work. They discuss new play development, ethics, community, and why “live bodies in a room” still matter.
Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
Chingwe Padraig Sullivan shares findings and impacts of the recent Native Theatre Community Town Hall on representation, erasure, and accountability in the American theatre, which was hosted by HERE Arts Center.
Native theatremakers have been combatting harmful representations of Native people in theatre for many years. Quita Sullivan, Mary Kathryn Nagle, and Betsy Richards discuss their work to push back from within institutions.
Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
Ash Marinaccio talks with Scott Illingworth, founder of the Verbatim Salon, where actors perform real stories from those navigating the US immigration system. They explore the creative process and how verbatim theatre sheds light on today’s urgent social issues.
Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
A Conversation with Honorees of the 2025 Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism, Citlali Pizarro and Christian Lewis
Saturday 8 November 2025
New York City
This year, 2025 honoree Citlali Pizarro and 2024 honoree Christian Lewis engage in an enlightening conversation about the state of theater, navigating careers in arts journalism, their pathways to the arts, the importance of fresh perspectives, and more.
On the debut episode of the Nonfiction Theatre Forum, Ash speaks with Pink Fang’s leadership about evolving documentary and community-based theatre, ethical collaboration, sustaining legacy, and adapting programs to meet today’s social, political, and artistic challenges.
Murielle Borst-Tarrant asks herself why she’s still creating. Amid loss and chaos and life’s ongoing minor dramas, she returns over and over again to the work.
The 2025 Edwin Booth Award honors a person, company, or organization whose work bridges professional and academic theatre. We seek to foreground the emerging/emergent as a product of resilience, reclamation, and urgency under contemporary and contemporaneous constraints.
Community conversations about welcoming audiences with disabilities, producing within a festival context, and how to handle change when an organization comes to an ending.
Maridee Slater invites theatremakers to think beyond graduate school credentials and gatekeepers to preserve the embodied practices that allow us to see each other and collaborate across difference. Let’s circle up.
Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.
With the Founders of New York City’s HERE Arts Center
Friday 26 September 2025
New York City
The founders of HERE Arts Center gather to share their founding story and insights about the field’s evolution and to kick off Kristin Marting's new project TORCHES: 30 Years of Downtown Performance in New York City, a much-needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through today.
Panels and Presentations from Theatre Professionals and Climate Advocates
Monday 22 September 2025
New York City
Bringing together theatre professionals and climate advocates to reimagine an industry that prioritizes climate storytelling, sustainability, and theatre as a cultural movement for our planet.
