Saturday, September 5
1:00 PM
Arrive around 12:00 PM to participate in a pre-performance fire-lighting gathering.
70 Minutes
$25 General Admission, $15 Student Admission
Meadow Stage (outdoors)
Ticketing information available here
Playwrights’ Platform is a newly created live anthology, responsive to the needs of boundary-bending playwrights and focused on the stories central to their writing. Audiences are invited into the hearts and minds of these award-winning theater artists to explore each turn of phrase and unique worldview.
Vickie Ramirez, Ty Defoe, and Jeanette Harrison—Democracy Cycle commission awardees (PAC NYC)—embody Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s Great Law of Peace through a journey that offers insight and lessons into unity, justice, and consensus-based decision-making with Six Nations: One Fire. With guest artist Dawn Avery. In partnership with Bard Center for Indigenous Studies.
Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli and Amerinda Theater. Her work has been developed and/or produced at Native Voices at the Autry, AlterTheater, and The Public Theater. Honors: Resident, New Dramatists through 2027; Winner, 2020 Smith Prize for Political Theater (NNPN); The Kilroys, Honorary Mention 2019 for Pure Native and 2014 for Standoff At Hwy#37; Semi-finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2019; Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference 2018; Alumna, Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group (2009). Other productions include: Glenburn 12 WP – Summer Shorts at 59E59, Smoke – Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. Published: Monologues for Actors of Color: Women, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, and Contemporary Plays by Women of Color Edition 2: (Routledge Press). Member: Dramatists Guild, PEN America. Consultant: Outer Range for Amazon TV.
See an excerpt from ‘Yuchewahkénh (Bitter)’ from American Theatre here.
