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In this class, Young Jean Lee will share a series of writing prompts that will enable anyone, regardless of experience level, to come up with an idea for a new play and begin writing it. She will share her approach to playwriting, which emphasizes...

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes playwright, director, and filmmaker Young Jean Lee for its first Perspectives on Performance for Fall 2020. Please note the date of this event has moved from Thursday, October 8, 2020 to the new date of Thursday, October 15...

Join Theater, Dance & Media as we watch Ma-Yi Theater Company's Sophocles in Staten Island from 4-4:35pm ET. Following the screening, performers Ron Domingo and family will join in a discussion about the work. Sophocles in Staten Island is available...

It’s time to decolonize your play reading list! This semester, TDM will be beginning a BIPOC play reading book club in order to read work by playwrights who are all too often left out of the syllabi at institutions of higher education. Every month the...

Bessie Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Jonathan González will be leading an introduction and embodied workshop related to their interdisciplinary performance practice, followed by a question and answer session. All students are welcome to join and...

Artist Haein Kang is working at the intersection of art and technology. Her work begins with insights into the driving forces that developed machine civilization. Along with the trajectory of her work, we look at the relationship between human and machine...

Carmelita Tropicana has been performing in New York’s downtown arts scene since the 1980s, straddling the worlds of performance art and theater in the U.S., Latin America and Europe with her irreverent humor, subversive fantasy and bilingual puns. She...

In anticipation of her work with TDM students in the spring--as both a Visiting Lecturer and as Guest Artist--Kaneza Schaal offers two Master Classes to the Harvard community this fall. In this second of the series, Kaneza Schaal shares the tools and...

In anticipation of her work with TDM students in the spring--as both a Visiting Lecturer and as Guest Artist--Kaneza Schaal offers two Master Classes to the Harvard community this fall. The Egyptian Book of the Dead was originally intended to provide the...

In the early days of this century, 13 playwrights joined forces so they could see their work fully produced in New York under their own artistic leadership. They called themselves 13P and announced that their mission was to produce 13 plays, with each of...