Iraq Veterans Playwrights Workshop Holds A Reading 3/30

Iraq Veterans Playwright Workshop presents Returns, Written by Joshua Casteel (USA) and Directed by David Gothard (UK) Post-reading discussion with Emily Mann (USA) + others

Join us for a reading of Returns: A Meditation in Post-Trauma, written by former Abu Ghraib interrogator turned conscientious objector Joshua Casteel (USA) and directed by David Gothard (UK). There will be a post-reading discussion on art and the experience of war with Emily Mann (McCarter Theater Princeton), Scott Spencer (Writer), Laren McClung (NYU Veteran Writers Workshop), Drew Cameron (Combat Paper Project), Lovella Calica (Warrior Writers Project), and Jose N. Vasquez (Iraq Veterans Against the War NYC Chapter President). We will also host a (closed) afternoon writers workshop for veterans.

Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave at 34th St.
Free! First come, first served

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