NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY NEWSLETTER

"INTERNATIONAL FORUM" EDITION

Theatre Across Borders

If you are a theatre artist working internationally, we invite you to join the Forum!

NPTC began working internationally in 2015, bringing plays from the Women's Work Short Play LAB to Bogotá, Colombia for the bi-annual Alternative Theatre Festival. In 2021, with a group of nominees for the League of Professional Theatre Women's International Award, we created Theatre From the Streets. This program invited artists from 5 countries to create short plays to share the reality of their lives, unfilitered by State or Corporate media. You can watch videos by artists in Hungary, India, Palestine, The Philippines, and Venezuela on YouTube. Moderators put these plays in context and facilitated discussion with an international audience.

In 2023 we began to think about creating a dedicated platform where artists from around the world could engage directly with each other to share information and ideas, promote their work, and find ways to collaborate. Through 2024 we consulted with a group of international and U.S. artists who were already working across borders to determine how our site should function, with safety uppermost in our planning as we watched attacks on artists in volatile regions increase.

This past March we launched the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Forum with a mission to engage international theatre women and their allies in networking and activism by facilitating conversation and artistic collaboration on a global basis. We aim to investigate a common language around diversity, inclusion, and cultural and religious pluralism as it applies across cultures, breaking down outmoded assumptions and fostering an open dialogue to enact positive change.

We look forward to meeting you at the Forum!

Ticket sales are heating up!

PROGRAM A: https://tinyurl.com/WWFEST-A

PROGRAM B: https://tinyurl.com/WWFEST-B

Seating is extremely limited. Guarantee your ticket with advance purchase via Eventbrite.

If you wish to pay cash at the box office, RSVP to newper37@gmail.com with your information & the date/time of the performance you wish to attend.

PROGRAM A:

CUSTOMS by Erin Moughon, directed by Melody Brooks
Featuring: Penelope Deen, Bess Miller*, Regina Renee Russell*

A LAUGH TOO FAR by by Yekta Khaghani, directed by Kristen Kelso
Featuring: Shiva Kiani, Marie Eléna O’Brien*, Anuj Parikh*

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE by Melissa Maney, directed by Jennie Reich Litzky
Featuring: Sophia Aranda*, Antonyio Artis, Ryan Cooper, Harmony Harris,
Annabella Pritchard, Samuel James Pygatt*