STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE. STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
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New work at the Stage Left Festival - June, NYC
Stage Left is an innovative new play festival from Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition that brings the stories from the frontlines of progressive movements to center stage through six groundbreaking staged readings of plays from the 99%. Each play is paired with a community partner —REI Soho Union, Worker’s Justice Project, and Releasing Aging People in Prison—to catalyze conversation and create pathways to immediate, meaningful action.
On Sunday, June 22nd at 2pm join the audience for a sharing of a new one-act play by Andrea Ambam - DATE OF RELEASE.
“Separated by incarceration, twin sisters Jade and Jasper make parallel attempts to get free, despite being on opposite sides of prison walls. One seeks somatic therapy at a wellness studio, the other prepares for her fourth parole hearing. What tethers them? The shared, aching anticipation of release.”
Join me monthly at Soho House NYC in conversation with artists and changemakers who, through their work, exemplify how stories can help us to create more just and pleasureful futures.
Visit www.moretotalkabout.com/events to RSVP.
What does it mean to be a first responder artist?
Conjured and conceived by Andrea Ambam, Liza Jessie Peterson, and Dria Brown – First Responder Artists Collective is made up of independent artists (read: writers, directors, producers, musicians, designers, curators, activists, thinkers, and dramaturgs) heeding Toni Morrison’s call for artists to “go to work” when cultural and political crisis emerge, and thus collectivizing in search of answering the question: “What does it mean to be a first responder artist?”
We make high art/eye level to meet the challenges of the times and put a battery in the back of the people.
Through active listening and centering the voices and topics/themes of the directly impacted and historically marginalized, we pop up and deploy art into the community like a medicinal balm. Art is the prescription.
Look out for FIRST RESPONDER ARTISTS COLLECTIVE all 2025 and beyond.
As a Hi-ARTS 2024-25 CRITICAL BREAKS Artist in Residence, I will continue the development of Twelve Angry Black Women - a black feminist reinterpretation of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men wherein the United States of America is on trial and it’s fate lies in the hands of all Black, all femme jury.
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new work.