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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
Video
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
A Playwriting Masterclass
Monday 26 August 2024
New York City
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
Video
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
A Playwriting Masterclass
Monday 19 August
New York City
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
Video
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work
A Playwriting Masterclass
Monday 5 August 2024
New York City
Headshots of three playwrights.
The Importance of Community for Playwrights
Essay

The Importance of Community for Playwrights

3 April 2024

What tools are playwrights using to survive in the theatre industry today? What tools are missing? Louis DeVaughn “DeVo” Nelson poses these questions and more to three playwrights in conversations about the future of theatre, the shedding supremacist systems, and the necessity to build new communities.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 1 April 2024
New York

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 25 March 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Welcome to Teaching Theatre
Podcast

Welcome to Teaching Theatre

19 March 2024

Host Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder talks with Valerie Curtis-Newton (University of Washington) and Cynthia Henderson (Ithaca College) about the changes and challenges university theatre training programs are facing in this moment, as well as some strategies to address these issues. This premiere episode touches on many of the topics we will discuss throughout the season: work ethic, teaching difficult material, and reinventing the canon, and more.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 11 March 2024
New York City

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Panel with Michael Kliën and Social Practice CUNY.
Video

Panel with Michael Kliën and Social Practice CUNY.

The Segal Center is proud to present the third New York iteration of Parliament in cooperation with Social Practice CUNY.

Tuesday 5 March 2024
New York City

Choreographer and artist Michael Kliën speaks about Parliament and his practice of social choreography that he has developed at the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University. He is joined by Emily Raboteau from Social Practice CUNY and Cory Tamler, author of Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography (2022).

Decentered Playwriting Book Launch Event Poster.
Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage, Book Launch Panel
Video

Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage, Book Launch Panel

Presented by The Drama Book Shop, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications and the Dramatists Guild of America.

Tuesday 5 March 2024
New York City

Join the Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage Book Launch Panel, with Carolyn Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter, moderated by Hunter College MFA Playwriting Christine Scarfuto.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work with Special Guest Neil deGrasse Tyson
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work with Special Guest Neil deGrasse Tyson

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 4 March 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Existentialism
Video

Existentialism

Post show talkback with cast and designers

Thursday 29 February 2024
New York.

Director Anne Bogart, Talking Band (Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet), set designer Anna Kiraly, and costume designer Gabriel Berry discuss their collaboration on Existentialism, as well as their creative process and what it means to make work now.

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Milo Rau's The Moscow Trials
Video

Milo Rau's The Moscow Trials

An evening with director Milo Rau featuring a talk on his latest project

Monday 26 February 2024

Milo Rao discusses his latest project, The Moscow Trials, in light of Alexei Navalny's recent death.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 26 February 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Discovering Contemporary Theater By Italians of African Descent Event Poster.
Discovering Contemporary Theatre by Italians of African Descent
Video

Discovering Contemporary Theatre by Italians of African Descent

The Playwrights, the Stories, the Challenges

Friday 16 February 2024
New York City

Part of the series Black Italia, an event featuring a panel discussion about plays by Italians of African descent.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 12 February 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Beyond the 2 % – A Manifesto Raising the Bar for Womxn Composers Event Poster.
Beyond the 2 Percent—A Manifesto: Raising the Bar for Womxn Composers
Video

Beyond the 2 Percent—A Manifesto: Raising the Bar for Womxn Composers

Watch as the panel creates and signs a global manifesto demanding immediate change and decolonization in a still deeply entrenched patriarchal field.

Wednesday 7 February 2024
New York City

Vienna Festwochen Festival and the Segal Center host a panel calling for action to address the devastating current state of representation when it comes to womxn composers in music spaces, especially in opera houses and in concert halls. 

A Day with Milo Rau Event Poster.
A Day With Milo Rau
Video

A Day With Milo Rau

Join us for an afternoon with director Milo Rau featuring a book talk, a panel, and an excerpt screening.

Wednesday 7 February 2024
New York City

Milo Rau discusses his latest book, Reclaiming the Future, a republished essay from the Zurich Poetry Lecture, followed by a panel, and an excerpt screening of Rau's The New Gospel.

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Completing the Unfinished Sentences of Our Ancestors with Jonathan McCrory
Podcast

Completing the Unfinished Sentences of Our Ancestors with Jonathan McCrory

7 February 2024

Jonathan McCrory is a Tony Award and Emmy Award nominated producer and a two-time Obie Award-winning artist who has served as executive artistic director at the National Black Theatre since 2012. In this episode, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley talk with McCrory about his work with the National Black Theatre and his ongoing commitment to nourishing and cultivating Black creativity and Black life.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 5 February 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Open Lab Kyiv x NYC Event Poster.
Open Lab: Kyiv x NYC
Video

Open Lab: Kyiv x NYC

An open collaborative session between teams of artists in Kyiv, Ukraine, and New York City livestreamed for an international audience. 

Monday 5 February 2024
New York City and Kyiv, Ukraine

Watch a live collaborative rehearsal between two teams of artists; one in NYC and the other in Kyiv, Ukraine. In this open lab session they experiment in real time with digital tools to expand what we imagine is possible on stage and online.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 29 January 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Aristotle Thinks Again Event Poster.
Aristotle Thinks Again
Video

Aristotle Thinks Again

Part of Great Jones Rep's Humanismo: Ancient Futures Series. 

Sunday 28 January 2024
United States

This work continued a company June 2020 online workshop performance with Safer. GJR members were joined by guest performer Marcus McGregor to explore Greek tragedies, post apocalyptic possibilities, how awful people are, and how awesome it can be to exist on the planet.

A man stands with his back to the camera and stares at an empty set on stage.
Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself
Essay

Can’t Do Theatre by Yourself

23 January 2024

Latinx theatremakers Jorge Piña and Christin Eve Cato sit down for a conversation about their paths through the theatre field and their advice for future generations looking to sustain this work while caring for themselves and each other.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 22 January 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

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Under The Radar Symposium Keynote Event
Video

Under The Radar Symposium Keynote Event

Visioning Emergent Paths for a Stronger Sector of National and International Performing Arts

Friday 12 January 2024
New York City

The 2024 Under the Radar Symposium convened 250 arts presenters, producers, service orgs, funders, and artists toward rigorous, facilitated small-table discussions, taking a deeper dive into visioning emergent paths for a stronger sector of national and international performing arts.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 8 January 2024
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Segal Center Presents Contemporary Circus Event Poster.
Contemporary Circus in NYC: New Audiences and Global Connections
Video

Contemporary Circus in NYC: New Audiences and Global Connections

Meet NYC area presenters, producers, and curators who have enabled audiences to experience some of the most unusual post-pandemic live performances on NYC area stages.

Thursday 14 December 2023
United States

US audiences have been slow to awake to circus's recent (r)evolution. Learn about recent North American premieres of contemporary circus works from Guinea, France, and Cambodia; upcoming projects; and innovative collaborative efforts to support new creation in the discipline.