Artistic Statement
I believe there is room for all at the artistic table. I believe in making visible that which has often been rendered invisible. I believe in access. I believe in affirmation.
I began making plays before I could write, and I cannot image wanting to anything else, although there are many days when I would love to do more to make the above possible.
I began wanting to write plays when I saw an August Wilson play on a class field trip: all those bodies who looked like me, whose stories sounded like those from my family, who stood tall under very bright lights: I felt incredible joy and heartache at the same time and, also felt propelled into life, into living, in a way that was compulsive, in a way that I have come to know is part of theatre, and that, when I do not experience, renders life less full.
I keep writing plays because the work of creating more characters that can do that to audiences is not done. There are more stories untold to fill the stage.
I began making plays before I could write, and I cannot image wanting to anything else, although there are many days when I would love to do more to make the above possible.
I began wanting to write plays when I saw an August Wilson play on a class field trip: all those bodies who looked like me, whose stories sounded like those from my family, who stood tall under very bright lights: I felt incredible joy and heartache at the same time and, also felt propelled into life, into living, in a way that was compulsive, in a way that I have come to know is part of theatre, and that, when I do not experience, renders life less full.
I keep writing plays because the work of creating more characters that can do that to audiences is not done. There are more stories untold to fill the stage.
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Kirsten Greenidge
Artistic Statement
I believe there is room for all at the artistic table. I believe in making visible that which has often been rendered invisible. I believe in access. I believe in affirmation.
I began making plays before I could write, and I cannot image wanting to anything else, although there are many days when I would love to do more to make the above possible.
I began wanting to write plays when I saw an August Wilson play on a class field trip: all those bodies who looked like me, whose stories sounded like those from my family, who stood tall under very bright lights: I felt incredible joy and heartache at the same time and, also felt propelled into life, into living, in a way that was compulsive, in a way that I have come to know is part of theatre, and that, when I do not experience, renders life less full.
I keep writing plays because the work of creating more characters that can do that to audiences is not done. There are more stories untold to fill the stage.
I began making plays before I could write, and I cannot image wanting to anything else, although there are many days when I would love to do more to make the above possible.
I began wanting to write plays when I saw an August Wilson play on a class field trip: all those bodies who looked like me, whose stories sounded like those from my family, who stood tall under very bright lights: I felt incredible joy and heartache at the same time and, also felt propelled into life, into living, in a way that was compulsive, in a way that I have come to know is part of theatre, and that, when I do not experience, renders life less full.
I keep writing plays because the work of creating more characters that can do that to audiences is not done. There are more stories untold to fill the stage.