L to R clockwise: Tamilla Woodward, Kristin Horton, Leila Buck, Deb-O, and Tanisha Christie
Hear from practitioners who actively create the relationships and structures necessary to develop socially-engaged theater. Moderated by director/deviser/activist Tamilla Woodard, with panelists Leila Buck, Kristin Horton, Tanisha Christie, and Deb-O.
MODERATED by Tamilla Woodard (director/deviser/activist), a theatre director who works both nationally and internationally. She is co-founder of PopUp Theatrics, a partnership creating site impacting theatrical events around the world and in collaboration with international theatre artists. Currently, she serves as the Artistic Director of The Five Boroughs/One City Project, a multi year initiative of The Working Theater.
PANELISTS:
Leila Buck (performer/writer) is a writer, performer and intercultural educator who has lived, performed and taught in 22 countries and across the U.S. [She is currently working with students at Rutgers to create a theatrical piece in response to the first 100 days of this presidency. Writer/Performer: Hkeelee (Talk to Me) (Mosaic - Arena Stage; Culture Project – Women Center Stage; El Teatro – Tunis; Theatre Gemmayze - Beirut); In the Crossing (Public Theater New Work Now!; Brooklyn Museum; Culture Project –WCS); Hanan’s story (UN, NY/Geneva, World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul); Actor: Aftermath (New York Theatre Workshop/International Tour -Drama League nomination); Scorched (Wilma Theater-Barrymore Award). MA/Adjunct faculty, Participatory Performance and Civic Engagement – NYU.
Kristin Horton (director/designer) is a New York City based director primarily interested in new work, socially engaged performance, and the re-imagining of classics. Recent works in progress include a collaboration with Chisa Hutchinson as part of Working Theater’s The Five Boroughs/One City Project and Lisa Biggs on the development of a living history play devised by Detroit residents and undergraduates at Michigan State University marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 rebellion. Horton’s new play collaborations have appeared at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, HERE, NYC Summerstage, Lark Play Development Center, William Inge Playwrights’ Festival, and New Dramatists, among others. She is an Associate Professor of Practice in Theater & Directing at New York University’s Gallatin School and serves as the Artistic Director of the Gallatin Arts Festival.
Tanisha Christie (interdisciplinary artist/filmmaker/educator ) has produced, directed and performed for many regional theaters, schools and performance spaces across the country, including Arena Stage, Roundhouse Theater, The Lark, Joe's Pub, and PS 122. As an artist-educator, she's developed workshops for The Kennedy Center and Looking Glass Theatre. And was the Assistant Director of the former Living Stage Theatre Company, the preeminent theater for social change in Washington, DC. She is currently a 2016/2017 Artist-in-Residence at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange where she is working on a new performance installation entitled bathtub.
Deb-O's (designer/deviser) extensive scenography training and range of experiences as well as her background in folk art, dance and gymnastics, clowning and mask making, a bit of puppetry have all lent themselves to an innovative approaches to the creation of unique theatrical events. Working closely with directors, she has devised and created large-scale, environmental designs for day-long performances of each of Chekhov's great works and created an epic environmental staging of Lanford Wilson's Balm In Gilead within a 7,000 square-foot space. She is co-artistic director of ARTBARN, and is on the Design Faculty of NYU Tisch's Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Illuminating the arts and life around us, BRIC’s Stoop Series explores music, theater, visual art, media, literature, comedy, and other creative fields, through performances, presentations, participatory activities and dynamic conversations. There’s something different every week!
This spring the Stoop Series includes a special mini-series of How To evenings speaking directly to BRIC’s artist community. These panel discussions bring artists and cultural workers together to share stories about exciting successes and instructive failures in the process of finding resources, collaborating and engaging community around their work.
Venue Information:
The Stoop at BRIC House is a public cultural gathering space featuring free, drop-in programming, and offering a place to sit, observe, and participate in multi-disciplinary work.
Beginning Nov. 1, 2022, attendees of any BRIC House programming will no longer have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter the building. Masks are encouraged but not required in all BRIC operated spaces. If you have questions regarding this protocol, please email Safety@bricartsmedia.org