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The last four days have been so intense. We’ve been having deep discussions about race, gender, sexuality, and representation. There are twenty directors in the Lab, several of us with international backgrounds, and everyone approaching the topic with a different set of personal experiences and familiarity with systems of oppression in the USA. The conversations…
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Home Is Where… is going places! Last month, Guleraana and I presented our project at the Families in Global Transition conference in the Netherlands, and we’ve just returned from New York, where we connected with other verbatim theatre makers at the NYU Forum on Ethnodrama. I was so excited to meet this community and see…
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It’s so great to get back into the devising process with our wonderful TCK team! After our scratch at Camden People’s Theatre in January, we’re now working towards the first full-length performance of Home Is Where… which we’ll present at Rich Mix on 2nd September. I’m so delighted to be working with some new collaborators: producer…
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I was honoured to be invited to the 2016 Families in Global Transition conference in Amsterdam, as a David C. Pollock Scholar. Over three packed days, a few hundred Third Culture Kids, expats, immigrants, and nomads gathered together to explore the deep connections of our international community, and new ways to build bridges to the…
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I’ve recently set up a Patreon campaign where you can support my work “per epiphany.” Patreon is a new model for funding artists, based on a very old model for funding artists: patronage. Many of us currently work project-to-project, and it’s difficult to maintain a reliable income that way. So Patreon allows supporters to pay…
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At D&D 9 in January 2014, an annual open space conference of theatremakers, I called a session on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and verbatim theatre, hoping to find some candidates for interviews and get started making a piece. More than a dozen people responded to my invitation, others who had grown up in a mix…
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