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Morgaine Gooding-Silverwood is a Chickasaw theatre artist and activist based in New York City. They recently received their master's in Performance Studies from The University of London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and have a bachelor's degree in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Columbia University. Mo's theater embraces a lesbian aesthetic, one that centers women and femmes through process and performance, and builds community trust through ensemble work.

Mo hopes to create theater that bridges the gaps between joy and justice, while staying rooted in an earnest commitment to indigenous values. As an activist, Mo co-created the Pedagogy of Dignity, an educational endeavor rooted in Theatre of the Oppressed and philosophical inquiry for incarcerated men and women, which they have used since 2015 to teach Shakespeare and Greek drama in correctional facilities throughout New York. Mo has trained with Theatre of The Oppressed NYC and Anne Bogart's SITI Company, and their work as been produced at Columbia University, RADA, the Corkscrew Theatre Festival, The University of Denver (where they served as an Artist in Residence) and at The Oklahoma Contemporary Museum.

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Cast and Creative Teams Announced for SLEEPER & ROUGH TRADE at The Tank


The Tank has announced additional casting and creative for their Spring World Premiere Core Productions, sleeper and Rough Trade.

The Tank to Present Four World Premiere Productions for Winter-Spring 2023 Season


The Tank has announced the Core Productions that will make up their Winter-Spring 2023 season. The Tank's Core Production series serves companies and solo artists as they create new works for performance.

WP THEATER Announces 2022 Pipeline Festival Creative Teams & Black Theater Nights


The WP Theater has announced the creative teams for the 2022 Pipeline Festival, the fourth biennial showcase of the artists in its celebrated WP Lab residency for playwrights, directors, and producers, as well as the cast for the first project, They Came in The Night.

Carolyn Gage Teams Up With Counterclaim to Present Online Reading of FEMALE NUDE SEATED


Carolyn Gage, an award-winning lesbian-feminist playwright and activist, teams up with counterclaim (c-c), a Brooklyn-based production company, to host an online reading of her latest work: Female Nude Seated, a one-act play about Irish painters Mainie Jellet and Evie Hone.

Corkscrew Theater Festival Launches Workshop Series CORKSCREW DOWNSTAIRS


Corkscrew Theater Festival, which runs July 10-August 3, inaugurates its Corkscrew Downstairs series of workshop productions this summer in the lower level theater at the Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, Manhattan). The four projects all take classic texts as a starting point, including A Doll's House, Twelfth Night, the poetry of Walt Whitman, and Leslie Feinberg's 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. The Downstairs series shares one team of designers -Dan Daly (sets), Christina Tang (lights), and Cinthia Chen (props)-and one flexible repertory set, deepening the festival's focus on exploring collaboration in different forms.

Corkscrew Theater Festival Announces Casting & Ticket Sales For Expanded Third Season


Corkscrew Theater Festival is pleased to announce the mainstage casts for its third annual festival, which runs July 10-August 3 at the Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, Manhattan). The festival features four world premieres, four workshop productions, and four readings performed in repertory over four weeks, with 80 performances in all. As in past years, special attention has been given to theater makers who are developing work through tight-knit collaborations. Tickets are now on sale.

BWW INTERVIEW: Creative Team of HONEY, AN IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, Presented by Fresh Paint and Oklahoma Contemporary


Ronn Burton, Regional Contributing Editor for BroadwayWorld Oklahoma, sat down with members of the creative team for HONEY, an original devised play from Fresh Paint Performance Lab, commissioned by Oklahoma Contemporary's Women In Performance series.

CRADLE TWO GRAVE, About Twin Sisters Grappling with Mental Illness, Closes Corkscrew Theater Festival


Corkscrew Theater Festival presents the world premiere of Cradle Two Grave, written and directed by Morgaine Gooding-Silverwood.

CRADLE TWO GRAVE, About Twin Sisters Grappling with Mental Illness, to Close Corkscrew Theater Festival


Corkscrew Theater Festival presents the world premiere of Cradle Two Grave, written and directed by Morgaine Gooding-Silverwood.

In a FringeNYC-less Summer, New Corkscrew Theater Festival Features 5 Premieres & 5 Readings


???????Tickets are now on sale to the inaugural Corkscrew Theater Festival, running August 7 - September 3 at the Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, Manhattan). Presented by The Brewing Dept. and Fortress Productions, this new summer theater festival provides early-career artists a high level of production support and features five world premieres and five readings performed in repertory over four weeks. Special attention has been given to theater makers who are developing work through innovative and unusual collaborative models. A majority of the participating artists identify as female.

Corkscrew Theater Festival Announces Inaugural Season at Paradise Factory


Corkscrew Theater Festival Artistic Director Thomas Kapusta announced the new festival today, which features 45 performances of 10 world premiere plays in repertory over 4 weeks this summer at the Paradise Factory Theatre.

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