R239. Playwriting in the Pacific Northwest: Unique Region, Unique Craft 2.0

F149, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Playwrights in the Pacific Northwest share many commonalities: rainforest weather, ocean, snowcapped mountains, coffee and earthquakes. But is there a cultural commonality that exists amongst playwrights in the region a.k.a. Cascadia? If there is, how has it affected their development as playwrights and in particular, their plays? Can they stay local, connect North, South? Should they look West, to Asia? Or should their focus remain with the East, and its traditional, national theater faultlines?


Participants

Moderator:

Bryan Wade is a playwright, radio writer, and novelist. Scavenge is a recent audio drama Chatterbox Audio Theater podcast. He teaches stage play/podcasting in UBC’s Creative Writing. 

Ramón Esquivel teaches playwriting and theatre education Central Washington University. Recent premieres include The Hero Twins: Blood Race  and Above Between Below. Published plays include: Luna, Nasty, and Nocturnal.

Cathy Tagnak Rexford is a playwright, poet, and fiction writer. She is a Full Circle Aboriginal Ensemble Member and an Aboriginal Graduate Fellow at the University of British Columbia's Joint MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre Program.

E.M. Lewis is a playwright and opera librettist. Winner of the American Theater Critics Association's Steinberg Award and Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama. Works include Magellanica, Song of Extinction, and The Gun Show.

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