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GENTRY: And now Great Arts at Eastern. Coming to you from the Portales campus of Eastern New Mexico University. I m Jeff Gentry, Dean of the College of Fine Arts here on KENW, Your Public Radio Network. Today my guest is Israel Stacy, a student in the ENMU theater program. He appears in the play,
Everybody premiering tonight via Zoom worldwide. Thank you for joining me today.
STACY: Of course.
GENTRY: Israel, you re a freshman Theatre major. Tell me about your previous experience as an actor.
STACY: So, my previous experience as an actor goes throughout the entirety of my high school career. In fact, the very first show I was ever in was a show called
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Next week, an outstanding panel of authors and actors will come together (virtually) to celebrate the work of Octavia Butler. Hosted by New York’s Symphony Space, the event features playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (
An Octoroon) hosting a discussion with writers N. K. Jemisin (
How Long ’til Black Future Month?), Walter Mosley (
The Awkward Black Man), and Imani Perry (
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons). Actors Yetide Badaki (
American Gods) and Adepero Oduye (
When They See Us) will read selections from Butler’s work.
The event is presented in conjunction with Grand Central, the publisher of many of Butler’s works, and Library of America, which just published a volume containing
Northern Stage Announces 2021 Recipients of the BOLD Theater Women s Leadership Circle Grant
Awardees: Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR), and Maria Manuela Goyanes, Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.by BWW News Desk
Northern Stage has announced the 2021 recipients of the BOLD Theater Women s Leadership Circle grant, which marks its fourth year with two new inductees into its unprecedented $3.5 million grant funded by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation to support and promote women+ artistic directors and their associates in professional theaters across the United States. Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR), and Maria Manuela Goyanes, Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC), have each been awarded $250,000 a year for two years, and join the circle s previously-announced cohort of recipients: Susan V. Booth of Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA), Eileen J.