Decolonizing New Play Development

Co-Produced with NNPN and Calling Up Justice

A roundtable conversation between theatre artists centering Indigenous and Black voices around decolonization in the new play development process discussing the definition of decolonization and its hyperlocal impact, how we can decolonize the development process, and examples of people and organizations who are doing the work. 

Guests: Claudia Alick, Annalisa Dias, Mina Morita, Tara Moses, Maddy Sayet, and Nan Barnett

Love and Desire Panel

This will be a discussion with BIPOC female identifying panelists about their desires for love, career, home, identity and/or family. This panel will be in conversation with the plays Mingus, Babes in Ho-lland, Derecho, To Saints and Stars, and Final Boarding Call.

Guests: Dr Nikki Chery, Sherrice Mojgani, Tammy Lynn Hall, Stephani Wilborn

BAPF Playwright Panel

with Jessica Bird Beza, Tyler English-Beckwith, Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡, Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, and Noelle Viñas

Women in Science, Religion, and Politics Panel

A group of women who have risen in the fields of science, religion and politics discuss their careers and their pathway to advancing in their respective fields. This panel will be in conversation with the plays To Saints and Stars and Derecho.

Moderator: Divinia Shorter (To Saints and Stars Dramaturg)

Panelists: Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán (Virginia’s 31st House of Delegates district), Dr. Melissa Lane (Senior Scientist at Fibernetics), Dr. Phyllis Whittlesey (Space Scientist, UC Berkeley), Teva L. Regule, MDiv, PhD (The St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess)