A monthly play or musical discussion group devoted to exploring works by artists who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, female/femme, and/or non-binary.
Our 2021 TRL “Instead of” series gives our community possible alternative pieces to stage or study instead of the typical canon.
Thumbprint Reads & Listens
Playwrights’ Symposium: Theatre of the Future
Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2021
Time: 7:30-8:30pm CST
(5:30-6:30 PST/6:30-7:30 MST/8:30-9:30 EST)
Price: FREE*
*this is a Community Event so it is free and open to all. However, if you would like to make a donation to help cover the costs of paying our actors & special guests, that would be greatly appreciated. Suggested Donation $5.
Panelists: Joining us as part of our panel, we have: Anne Garcia-Romero, Emma Goldman-Sherman, and Migdalia Cruz.
Discussion format: In celebration of 1 year of Thumbprint, we are switching things up for the month of May! If the last year has taught theatremakers anything, it’s that whatever we were doing before wasn’t working. Join us for our Playwrights’ Symposium! This will be an informal panel discussion open to all over Zoom. We will be discussing theatre in the digital realm, the trials and errors of the last year, and where we think theatre can and should go from here. We will also be honoring the playwrights whose works we’ve highlighted over the last year.
Meet Our Panelists
Anne García-Romero’s plays include Staging the Daffy Dame (LaunchPad UCSB), Lorca in New York (Denver Center Theater commission), Provenance (Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Paloma (National Latino Playwriting Award runner-up), Mary Domingo (Goodman Theatre commission), Earthquake Chica (National Latino Playwriting Award finalist), Mary Peabody in Cuba (National Latino Playwriting Award finalist), Land of Benjamin Franklin (Actors Theater of Louisville Ten Minute Play finalist), Girlus Equinus (Ensemble Studio Theater One-Act Marathon finalist), Don Quixote de la Minny (Teatro del Pueblo commission), Marta's Magnificent Mundo (South Coast Repertory commission), Desert Longing (South Coast Repertory commission), Juanita's Statue (NYSF Public Theater commission) and Santa Concepción (South Coast Repertory commission).
Her plays have been developed and produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions’ Summer Play Festival (Off-Broadway), The Mark Taper Forum, The Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Kitchen Theatre, INTAR, HERE, New Georges, Borderlands Theater, Nevada Repertory Company, Jungle Theater, East L.A. Repertory, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Open Fist Theater Company, Wordbridge Playwrights Laboratory, LoNyLa Writers Lab, The Orchard Project and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, NoPassport Press and Smith & Kraus.
Ms. García-Romero has developed a screenplay adaptation of her play, Mary Peabody in Cuba, with actor/director/producer, Andy Garcia. She has also written for Peninsula Films, Elysian Films and Disney Creative Entertainment.
She is the U.S. translator, with Mark St. Germain, for The Grönholm Method, the internationally acclaimed comedy, by Spanish playwright, Jordi Galcerán, produced in Los Angeles and London.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Her areas of specialization are playwriting, screenwriting, dramaturgy and Latinx and Latin American Theater Studies. She’s also taught at The Theater School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, USC, Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Loyola Marymount University, Macalester College and Wesleyan University.
She is a founding member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, where she contributes to The Fornés Institute. She is also the coordinator of the Fornés Playwriting Workshop in Chicago, sponsored by the University of Notre Dame.
Ms. García-Romero holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She's an alumna of The Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit, Chicago Dramatists and New Dramatists.
Emma Goldman-Sherman believes in the power of theatre to confer healing and agency. Her plays, produced on 4 continents, include "Counting in Sha'ab" (Golden Thread, PlayingOnAir.org) and Abraham's Daughters (TheParsnipShip.com). Her work is available on newplayexchange.org. She is thrilled to have just handed in her 4th draft of her 1st full-length commission, Tanya's Lit Clit. See her intersectional feminist romp, WHORTICULTURE on-demand through 4/17 at The Tank online. Period Piece here: https://www.periodpieceplay.com
Write with Emma at www.BraveSpace.online or join her for new play development here: https://www.bravespace.online/brave-new-workshop
MIGDALIA CRUZ is a Bronx-born, award-winning multi-platform playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist of more than 60 works including: El Grito Del Bronx, Cigarettes & Moby-Dick, The Book of Miaou, & Frida, produced in venues such as BAM, Latino Chicago Theater Company, Mabou Mines, A.R.T., National Theater of Greece, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, & Teatro Vista. An alumna of New Dramatists, she received grants from the NEA, McKnight, NYFA, NYSCA, and Pew/TCG Foundations, and was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. Migdalia was nurtured by Sundance, the Lark, & by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR. She taught for the Fornés Playwriting Workshop, Princeton, Brown, Yale, and LaMaMa/Umbria/Summer Intensive.
She is the current co-chair of the DGF Playwriting Fellows 2019-2021 with Lucy Thurber, a mentor to the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle; and recently received a commission from Clubbed Thumb via NYSCA to write Fish Tank and INTAR to write Lives of the New Kind of Saints with composer, Cristian Amigo.
Recent Projects: Fur @ Teatro Dallas, March 2019 and Boundless Theatre in NYC at NextDoor@NYTW, Oct/Nov 2019; What If Under The Bed...? @NyLonFusion (NYC), March 2020; lookinglass: some thoughts on day four@ PlanetConnections’ “Love & Kindness During Quarantine,” June 2020; Meat & Other Broken Promises @Homebound Project 4th Edition, July 2020; Never Moscow about Chekhov, consumption, and marriage workshopped at U. of Evansville, November 2020; Richard III translation (a PlayOn!Shakespeare Project) @TheatreSpace NorthEast (Sunderland, England), Summer 2020 and 2021; a geo-located live theater performance in Battery Park, Lives of the New Kind of Saints @INTAR, November 2020; and her Macbeth translation (a PlayOn!Shakespeare Project) will be a “Next Chapter” podcast launching in April 2021.