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First Online With FranYvette Heyliger: Lessons to LearnYVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright/Director/Producing Artist/Author is a lifelong theatre artist, as well as an educator, and the author of What a Piece of Work is Man! Full-Length Plays for Leading Women. Yvette is a long-time activist for women in the American theatre and was recently named a finalist for the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts 2022 AGE Legacy Playwright Grant. 2022-09-1422 min
Read More PlaysEP. #13: Clybourne Park By Bruce NorrisIn this episode READ MORE PLAYS hosts Ricardo Frederick Evans, Jennifer Sassaman, and special guest Yvette Heyliger the show Clybourne Park By Bruce Norris. Theme music by Kalyn Harewood, with additional music by Bob Sassaman.Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for updates and discussions you can participate in. Support us on Patreon to get bloopers, dramaturgy, and other bonus content. Please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Links to items referenced in this episode:1. A full plot summary of the play can be found on the Pl...2021-03-081h 19
From Another ZeroThe Podview: Roosevelt: Charge the Bear, What the Constitution Means to Me, Say Their NamesSharing our POV regarding three wonderful pieces:
(Please note two mistakes on this episode: 1) I mention Heidi Schreck doing contests... they were competitions... 2) The plays and monologues in Say Their Names have different titles from those of the names of the victims they are speaking of.
Roosevelt: Charge the Bear by The Roustabouts Theatre Co.
The world premiere of Roosevelt: Charge the Bear starring Phil Johnson in a virtual filmed presentation as part of their fourth season. As theatres all across the world are adapting to current conditions, many are moving their presentations to filmed p...2020-10-2625 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E10: Festival Artists on Working Intersectionally to Speak Out, Create Change, Dance Blind & Heal6 gorgeously interesectional artists share honestly (and humorously) about the beauty and challenges of working together to create art that heals our lives and cultureThese artists (together with about 6 more who couldn't join us!) helped make the #HealMeToo Festival's Self/Worth Variety Show a moving, sumptuous and transformative event: Raquel Almazan, Maybe Burke, Yvette Heyliger, Micaela Mamede & Krishna Christine Washburn.Reviewing the list of keywords for this episode tells the whole story:Intersectional, Immigrant, Undocumented, Racial Justice, Race, Disability, Blindness, Gender, Transgender, GNC, Nonbinary, Whiteness, Privilege, Sex Work, Stripper Shoes, Healing, MeToo...2019-09-251h 05
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E05: #TheatreToo Panel Part 2--Personal Stories, Cultural Forces & Audience Q&APart 2 continues the #TheatreToo conversation, as 5 industry leaders answer audience Q&A and:Recount their personal stories of empowerment through whisper networksDescribe ways LIT, ART/NY and even the Calisto app are working to organize the information in offline "whisper" networks and increase accountabilityShare a story of trauma getting triggered during the creative process, and finding support through sharing stories Explore some of the obstacles that prevent people from taking advantage of complaint processes Address ways economic exploitation of labor in theatre dovetails with harassmentOffer resources to help artists and arts organizations create culture change in their rehearsal roo...2019-07-0739 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E04: #TheatreToo Panel Part 1--Ways to Effect Change in a Freelance Creative IndustryHow are theatre artists organizing to take the "whisper" out of the network? In Part 1, five knowledgable leaders discuss their work to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault within the theatre industry:Programs that support independent artists to shift our culture and practices, especially in freelance and nonunion contextsThe advantages and disadvantages of a whisper network compared to traditional HR channels, and new ways of bringing our "whispers" forwardUpstander/bystander techniques that bring issues into the open in productive and transformative ways to help create safer spacesThe tiny yet impactful culture shifts we all can create in...2019-06-2537 min
Reading.. Playwright Bill Beasley's "EVERY VOTE COUNTS"The Gist of Freedom is pleased to present in the wake of Hurricane Sandy...The Reading "Every Vote Counts"Produced by Writing the Election 2012: Playwrights Address the Nation With Readings of Their New Works ! Postponed due to the Hurricane, Producing Artist Yvette Heyliger agreed to broadcast the reading on The Gist of Freedom WWW.BlackHISTORYblog.com
Please join us as we enjoy listening to Harlem 21 Playwrights very own Bill Beasley's "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" ---------537 voters made election history in 2000 when President George Bush stole 537 votes from Floridians and in turn stole the Presidency from .every American citizen, voter!
On November 26, 2000, Florida Secretary...2012-11-0654 min