How Lioness: the Origin Story Podcast Came to be When the Pittsburgh-based, non-profit The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) invited me to screen my documentary Lioness, in June of 2023, to [...] June 5, 2024
Beyond the Pandemic: Taking the Long View with Futurist Cecily Sommers Last December, a dear friend gifted me a copy of Moshin Hamid’s exquisite Exit West, a dystopian tale of two refugees who escape the [...] May 12, 2020
Playwright Catherine Filloux Confronts the Tragedy of Child-Separation Policy When, in June 2018, Judge Dana Sabraw of California put a legal chokehold on the Trump administration’s unconscionable child-separation [...] May 8, 2019
Making Space for Women Artists and Remembering My Mother, Joan Sommers No woman wants to be a “woman artist.” If you are a woman and an artist, you want to be judged on your work. Period. As Georgia [...] June 9, 2017
Petrol Station – Political Theater That Is Clarifying for the Soul Sulayman Al Bassam’s Petrol Station, which will have its world premier at the Kennedy Center this Friday (followed by performances [...] March 23, 2017
Theater of Resistance in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene In the days immediately following November’s shock election, pundits across the media landscape, responding to a rising chorus of “Not [...] March 14, 2017
Immigrants, Stereotypes and Casting: Talking with the Actors of Three Trembling Cities Three Trembling Cities, a new ten-part web series on New York City immigrants, is now available [...] January 10, 2017
Three Trembling Cities – The Immigrant Experience in New York On the eve of the American Revolution’s final battle at Yorktown, as portrayed in the musical Hamilton, Lafayette and Hamilton cross [...] December 14, 2016