A TDM Senior Thesis Play Reading by Karina Cowperthwaite

Ugly Feelings is an original thesis play that explores the questions of racial belonging that I have never answered and continue to seek out the answers for. What does it mean to belong? How can multiracial identity be informed by the racialization of spaces you occupy? How can identity be projected onto you by yourself versus by others? Enter the abstract world of angst, confusion, and teenage fantasy as two mixed-race Chinese American twins navigate growing up in a world where they’ve never quite felt like they belong.

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ABOUT TDM SENIOR THESIS FESTIVAL

TDM launches its inaugural Senior Thesis Festival with two weeks of readings and performances in March. Play Reading week, March 6-9 features staged readings of two original plays by TDM seniors. Production week, March 20-25, includes two dance performances and an immersive theater experience performing in rep at Farkas Hall, and a durational performance staged in four locations across campus spanning the full week