In Real Time remix four storytellers crisscross paths across dimensions as they journey through this new selection of short works where words are alive and every breath is a riot of beauty, a revolutionary act of courage grit grace faith fire. In a mortals/mortally wounded world rapidly running out of time how can we find ways to survive, to heal ourselves and our words and our worlds, and to, together, thrive?
Playwright
Jaisey Bates
Jaisey Bates (they/she) creates nontraditional collaborative work with their multicultural nomadic theater company, The Peoplehood. While East Coast born and mostly grown, they are currently West Coast based in the traditional ancestral and unceded lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and Chumash (aka Los Angeles). Bates is a recipient of the Emerging American Playwright Prize (Marin Theatre Company) and a finalist (Princess Grace Award, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award), semifinalist (American Shakespeare Center New Contemporaries), and honorable mention (Kilroy’s list). Recent virtual productions include collaborations with WP Theater, SameBoat (EarthQuake Festival), and Honor Roll in association with the African American Policy Forum, National Action Network and The Breath Project. Recent development opportunities include virtual workshops with Clamour Theatre Company, Cutting Ball Theater, and The Vagrancy’s Writers Group and Blossoming Festival, and selection for Native Voices at the Autry’s Festival of New Plays.
Co-Director
Jeanette Harrison
Jeanette Harrison (she/her) serves as artistic director of San Rafael’s award-winning AlterTheater, where she most recently directed the world premieres of CIRCULAR by Laura Shamas and COW PIE BINGO by Larissa FastHorse. She architected the ground-breaking AlterLab playwright residency program, and has shepherded 25 new plays to world premieres. She directed the multi-TBA Award winning production THE AMEN CORNER, and co-directed (with Ann Brebner) AlterLab-developed THE RIVER BRIDE by Marisela Treviño Orta, which went on to Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2016 mainstage season, and LANDLESS by Larissa FastHorse, which won the USA Pen Literary Award in Drama. She has taught at University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts, Santa Clara University, and College of Marin. For television, she co-wrote with Sharmila Devar FEATHERS AND DOTS, DOTS AND FEATHERS, a comedy about family and cultural identity that received developmental support from LA SkinsFest’s Native Writers program, and in the inaugural Native American Animation Lab she developed LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL.
Co-Director
Nailah Harper-Malveaux
Nailah Harper-Malveaux (she/her) is director, producer and community organizer with a passion for creating, facilitating and curating artistic engagements that center BIPOC voices, explore intersectional identities and challenge systems of oppression and complacency. She most recently directed The Light by Loy A. Webb at Shotgun Players and two projects for the American Conservatory Theater’s Master of Fine Arts Program. While theaters were closed to in-person gatherings, she had the privilege to work as a full-time organizer for the Biden/Harris Campaign, turning a moment of loss into personal motivation to act. She has worked with Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Creative Artists Agency, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), Crowded Fire Theater, and Berkeley Repertory Theater (B.R.T.). She is currently a resident artist at Crowded Fire Theater and a member of the 2019-21 SDCF Observership Class. Previous fellowships include the Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow at B.R.T. and the Community Producing Fellowship A.C.T. She received her B.A. in Theatre Studies and American Studies from Yale University.
Dramaturg
David Geary
David Geary (he/him) is of Māori (Taranaki iwi), English, Irish and Scottish blood. He is a playwright, dramaturg, director, screenwriter, fiction writer and poet. He works at Capilano University in Canada, where he teaches screenwriting in the IDF Indigenous Digital Filmmaking program, documentary, and playwriting. David’s recent work includes short plays for Climate Change Theatre Action. David also teaches playwriting and dramaturgy for PTC Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver. He’s a member of LMDA Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and does script consultation for theatre, TV and Film. He lives by the yogic mantra: Life is short, stretch it – and writes haiku on twitter @gearsgeary