[Theater]
Gun Control: Theatre Action 2013

About This Event

NoPassport theatre alliance & press founded by 2012 OBIE-award winning playwright Caridad Svich will stage a free theatre action to support gun control in collaboration with Theater J (Ari Roth, Artistic Director) and interdisciplinary arts ensemble force/collision (John Moletress, founder) and Twinbiz (Yvette Heyliger, founder) at Georgetown University’s Gonda Theatre in Washington D.C. on Saturday, January 26, 2012 at 5:00 pm, following Theater J’s performance of BOGED (TRAITOR): AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

This theatre action will feature new work by playwrights Neil LaBute (reasons to be pretty), Jennifer Maisel (The Last Seder), Oliver Mayer (Blade to the Heat), Winter Miller (In Darfur), Matthew Paul Olmos (I put the fear of mexico in ‘em), Ian Rowlands (Welsh Arts Council), Gary Winter (13p), August Schulenberg (Flux Theatre Ensemble, NY), Caridad Svich (The House of the Spirits) and more under the direction of the force/collision ensemble.

Actors currently scheduled to take part in this event include Jocelyn Kuritsky (core member, Woodshed Collective, New York), Rachel Zampelli, Mark Krawczyk, Frank Britton, Howard Wahlberg, Dexter William Hamlett, Sue Jin Song and Karin Rosnizeck. The lead dramaturge for this NoPassport theatre alliance event is Zac Kline.

This free theatre action will consist of readings of new work to coincide with the March on Washington for Gun Control organized by citizen-artist Molly Smith and her partner Suzanne Blue Star Boy.

As part of the call for the National Day of Service, NoPassport and Twinbiz invites writers and theatre venues to join this theatre action. For direct enquiries send to nopassport2013forguncontrol@gmail.com Tickets to the NoPassport Gun Control Theatre Action at The Gonda Theatre are free. Directions to the Gonda Theatre are on Theater J’s website.