Artistic Statement
Growing up straddling fundamentalist dogma and performative progressiveness has made me a writer fascinated by boundary. In my plays, I twist genre and archetype to tease the audience away from the comfort of their assumptions while offering entertainment as a reward (no one listens to a sermon). I write a lot about the profound difficulty women have finding safe rooms to exist in fully and the tension created when that room is denied. On stage, I aim to make art that’s impossible, true, and transformative, using the interplay of humor and horror to invite a collective examination of uncomfortable questions we’re not supposed to let into the room.
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Tori Keenan-Zelt
Artistic Statement
Growing up straddling fundamentalist dogma and performative progressiveness has made me a writer fascinated by boundary. In my plays, I twist genre and archetype to tease the audience away from the comfort of their assumptions while offering entertainment as a reward (no one listens to a sermon). I write a lot about the profound difficulty women have finding safe rooms to exist in fully and the tension created when that room is denied. On stage, I aim to make art that’s impossible, true, and transformative, using the interplay of humor and horror to invite a collective examination of uncomfortable questions we’re not supposed to let into the room.