Performing Justice Project — Winter/Spring 2021
A Play on Words
From February–April 2021, Faith Hillis and I partnered with the Wheelock Family Theatre to design, direct, and produce a virtual Performing Justice Project. Working with Wheelock’s Youth Advisory Council, we met twice a week for six weeks to engage in a series of “performance actions,” drama/theatre strategies facilitated specifically through the lens of performing racial and gender justice. Through these performance actions, the ensemble of young people (ages 13-21) devised an original performance titled A Play on Words that expressed their vision of a liberated world.
T-Shirt designed by a youth artist in A Play on Words.
“Liberating, Freeing, Inspiring, Hopeful”
—Youth Artist’s description of their experience in PJP
“Daily Movements” from A Play on Words
Devised and performed by the Wheelock Family Theatre Youth Advisory Council
Directed by Laura Epperson and Faith Hillis
Stage Managed by Heather Radovich
April 2021
Song: “Girls Like You” by Vitamin String Quartet