I have begun a collaboration with Human Rights attorney and professor of Sydney University, Rita Shackel. Her work has, for many years, focused on sexual gender-based violence in the conflict zones of Uganda, DRC and Kenya. We began exploring this
Recently I have come to understand something. About my work and my approach to The Global Theatre Project. And I feel it is important because it connects to how we will continue in the future, how we will approach educating
In 2010 and 2011 we did a play about Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya written by Stefano Massini. It spoke to her experience in reporting the events of the Russian-Chechen conflict non-biasedly and the result being that she was murdered for
I am newly arrived in New York. The city of my birth. And an energy I have not lived in for over 25 years. But I am home. I know I am home because within days I was sitting on
When I think of the events we have done in the past years and their focus: violence against women, human rights abuses, censorship, violence against journalists, freedom of expression, Russia, Belarus, Congo, Chechnya, I know we have touched people to
In March we participated in Belarusian Dream Theater with events in Florence and Los Angeles. This was a pivotal project for us connecting our artists with university students, high school students and community members around the questions of democracy and
Why Belarus? That is an important question. With all of the possible issues that are occurring in the world, why would we chose to focus on a country few have ever heard of? Although this is a question I hope all
I have been thinking a great deal lately about this question of ‘service.’ Being of service throughout my life, what that looks like, what it truly means. For many years I have thought it meant giving fully to the community, being
Evo-lu-tion: A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. There is a lot that theatre can do. But I believe, at its best, theatre can evoke evolution in society. And, at this
