Watch the ZOOM RECORDING HERE
graphic by Diana Yanez
Also with Q and A from the audience
POPCORN presentations (2 minutes) by Honor Roll Members Melissa Bell, Stacie Chaiken and Hortense Gerardo
and Breakout Rooms
Zoom facilitator: Jennie Webb
POPCORN presentations (2 minutes) by Honor Roll Members Melissa Bell, Stacie Chaiken and Hortense Gerardo
and Breakout Rooms
Zoom facilitator: Jennie Webb
Meet Our Speakers!
Peppur Chambers is an international writer, producer and educator. She wrote and performed the site-specific From Where to Here: A One Woman Show about 1930s Migration at the Chandler Museum in Arizona in its exhibit “Picturing Home” Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler. She previously wrote and directed a site-specific performance, The Build UP, in a mansion in LA. Peppur is also a published author (Harlem’s Awakening & Harlem's Last Dance - March 2023). She directs and writes film, and her most recent work, Do Something (co-writer/producer) on Tubi.com. She is an alum of Moving Arts MADLab, Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, and current Antaeus Playwrights Lab member, and the writer of commissioned radio plays, The Fire In-Between, (LA’s 1933 Griffith Park fire), End of the Line (human trafficking) and The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations). penandpeppur.com.
Anne Hamburger is the Executive Artistic Director of En Garde Arts, a company she founded in 1985. A pioneering force in the field of site-specific theatre, En Garde commissions writers, directors, composers and designers to create groundbreaking work using the city as their stage. The company has received six OBIEs, two Drama Desks and a special Outer Critics Circle Award.
Susane Lee is the Executive Artistic Director of Hudson Classical Theater Company now in its 21st season. Susane is a director and a writer, and has adapted for the stage the works of Alexandre Dumas and Jane Austen. A lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, her background is in TV where she traveled extensively, producing and writing documentaries for PBS. She published a memoir for MORE Magazine and received a PBS Communications Award.
Judy Tate is a dramatist who has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild award for her work in television. She is the producing artistic director of the ASP Arts Collective www.ASPArtsCollective.org which contextualizes enslavement and its aftermath within the framework of Colonialism through drama, including a series of commissioned works imagined from the African American Burial Grounds site. Her plays include Fast Blood, Slashes of Light, Sex in the Kitchen, Mistaken for Genius and In the Parlour. Theatre awards include Manhattan Theatre Club’s playwriting fellowship and the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award. She’s Founding Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stargate Theatre www.StargateTheatre.com, a project that pays justice-involved young people to create and perform original work for the stage. Judy has taught students around the world from South African Townships to American Indigenous communities. She has both a BFA and a Master in Arts+Politics degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and teaches playwriting at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and Theatre Arts at Drew University. She is a mother of four and grandmother of seven.
Moderator Cindy Cooper is a playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in the US, Canada and Europe. In New York, her work has been at Primary Stages, The Women’s Project (WP), Wings, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio, MultiStages, Town Hall, Museum of Tolerance, Sheen Center, Center for Jewish History, WOW Café, Chain Theater, Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, New Circle Theatre Co., HBO, and others, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, Maryland, Texas, Florida, Montreal, Budapest, Helsinki, Israel, and elsewhere. A two-time Jerome Fellow, her plays are in 17 volumes and have won awards from Pen and Brush, Samuel French, Malibu Int’l Festival, Quixote Foundation, the City of Providence, and more. She is the founder and coordinator of Repro Freedom Arts.org, which produces theater and conducts theatrically-based reproductive freedom walking tours in Manhattan. She is on the Executive Committee of Honor Roll. www.cyncooperwriter.net
Peppur Chambers is an international writer, producer and educator. She wrote and performed the site-specific From Where to Here: A One Woman Show about 1930s Migration at the Chandler Museum in Arizona in its exhibit “Picturing Home” Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler. She previously wrote and directed a site-specific performance, The Build UP, in a mansion in LA. Peppur is also a published author (Harlem’s Awakening & Harlem's Last Dance - March 2023). She directs and writes film, and her most recent work, Do Something (co-writer/producer) on Tubi.com. She is an alum of Moving Arts MADLab, Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, and current Antaeus Playwrights Lab member, and the writer of commissioned radio plays, The Fire In-Between, (LA’s 1933 Griffith Park fire), End of the Line (human trafficking) and The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations). penandpeppur.com.
Anne Hamburger is the Executive Artistic Director of En Garde Arts, a company she founded in 1985. A pioneering force in the field of site-specific theatre, En Garde commissions writers, directors, composers and designers to create groundbreaking work using the city as their stage. The company has received six OBIEs, two Drama Desks and a special Outer Critics Circle Award.
Susane Lee is the Executive Artistic Director of Hudson Classical Theater Company now in its 21st season. Susane is a director and a writer, and has adapted for the stage the works of Alexandre Dumas and Jane Austen. A lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, her background is in TV where she traveled extensively, producing and writing documentaries for PBS. She published a memoir for MORE Magazine and received a PBS Communications Award.
Judy Tate is a dramatist who has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild award for her work in television. She is the producing artistic director of the ASP Arts Collective www.ASPArtsCollective.org which contextualizes enslavement and its aftermath within the framework of Colonialism through drama, including a series of commissioned works imagined from the African American Burial Grounds site. Her plays include Fast Blood, Slashes of Light, Sex in the Kitchen, Mistaken for Genius and In the Parlour. Theatre awards include Manhattan Theatre Club’s playwriting fellowship and the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award. She’s Founding Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stargate Theatre www.StargateTheatre.com, a project that pays justice-involved young people to create and perform original work for the stage. Judy has taught students around the world from South African Townships to American Indigenous communities. She has both a BFA and a Master in Arts+Politics degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and teaches playwriting at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and Theatre Arts at Drew University. She is a mother of four and grandmother of seven.
Moderator Cindy Cooper is a playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in the US, Canada and Europe. In New York, her work has been at Primary Stages, The Women’s Project (WP), Wings, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio, MultiStages, Town Hall, Museum of Tolerance, Sheen Center, Center for Jewish History, WOW Café, Chain Theater, Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, New Circle Theatre Co., HBO, and others, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, Maryland, Texas, Florida, Montreal, Budapest, Helsinki, Israel, and elsewhere. A two-time Jerome Fellow, her plays are in 17 volumes and have won awards from Pen and Brush, Samuel French, Malibu Int’l Festival, Quixote Foundation, the City of Providence, and more. She is the founder and coordinator of Repro Freedom Arts.org, which produces theater and conducts theatrically-based reproductive freedom walking tours in Manhattan. She is on the Executive Committee of Honor Roll. www.cyncooperwriter.net
