Gaia Visnar News

As a part of The Seeing Place Theater's eighth season, THE PEOPLE VS ANTIGONE offers a modern take on the classic Sophocles' myth. This new adaptation by Brandon Walker explores a rebel daughter taking on the patriarchy: will she lose her life when she breaks Theban law by burying her dead brother's body against decree?

Written by Zala Djuric, directed by Oskar Kvaternik and performed by Gaia Visnar, Zala Djuric, Grant Schumacher and Delil Baran, The Doorman will soon take the stage at the HB Playwrights Theatre in Chelsea for its New York and world premiere.

In the Playmaking program, children from the Chelsea public school PS 11 enroll in a 12-week playwriting course, led by Daniel Judah Sklar and Kim Greene. The program was originally developed in conjunction with Circle in the Square Theatre School, and adapted from Daniel Sklar's book, Playmaking: Children Writing and Performing Their Own Plays. Six weeks through the workshop, each child finishes his/her own imaginative play. Professional actors then read each one aloud. They also help the kids transform their first scripts into realistic ones. All the final plays are rehearsed, and then performed on the Broadway stage at Circle in the Square.

The Female Role Model Project is a scientifically enhanced multimedia devised theatre piece built by an ensemble of female-identified artists about recreating modern female role models in the world of cataclysmic climate change, cataclysmic political change and possibility of reprogramming our brains.