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Contributors
From the Executive Office
The View from Avignon’s Bridge
AXES OF EVIL
KITCHEN SINK DRAMA
MAPS AND LEGENDS
HISTORY IN PIECES
A WELL-BEING WORKOUT
FLORENCIA CUENCA • Singer-writer-performer Florencia Cuenca recently made history as the first Mexican immigrant without U.S. citizenship to originate a coleading Broadway role, as Estela in Real Women Have Curves. Among other credits, she and her husband, Jaime Lozano, develop new musicals together and recently workshopped Desaparecidas in Chicago.
KIMIE NISHIKAWA • New York-based scenic designer Kimie Nishikawa, who was nominated for a 2024 Tony for best scenic design of a play for An Enemy of the People as part of the design collective dots, also played her part in dots’s design for the world premiere of the musical A Wrinkle in Time at Arena Stage (through July 20).
Extreme Vetting and EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY • The politics of international artist visas have never run smooth, but they’ve become increasingly bumpy in a changing U.S.
Here, There, and EVERYWHERE • Immigrant theatremakers working in the U.S. reflect on what they write and who they’re writing for.
Islands of DISORDER • Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making in the face of empire.
Migration is NOT A METAPHOR • Even so, the experience of moving from one place to another in a fearful, militarized, increasingly xenophobic world has inspired writers to document, challenge, and reimagine that world. In these works and excerpts by four immigrant theatremakers—Martyna Majok, Antu Yacob, Deniz Khateri, and Yussef El Guindi—we catch glimpses of beauty, confusion, defiance, and survival.
Excerpt from the script of Queens
My Body, Your Body (Where you from?)
Excerpt from the script of Husks from Iran
Stamp Me
Bringing It ‘HOME’ • With a play about homelessness at various non-theatrical locations, Out of Hand Theater created a useful fiction for real-life Atlantans.
Amm(i)gone • Amm(i)gone is a theatrical experiment attempting to reconnect a queer son and his hijabi mother through the act of translating Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu.
ADIL MANSOOR: MAKING A SPACE • An interview with the playwright
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From the Archives • CAN YOU NAME THE PERFORMERS AND THE SHOWS?