Nilaja sun biography templates

Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist, writer and performer from New York City's Lower East Side. Sun dsecribes herself as a product of many cultural influences: her mother is Puerto Rican, her biological father is African American, her mother re-married to an Italian man, and her childhood neighborhood contained all of these cultures and more. Sun studied pre-medicine at Franklin & Marshall College and in her senior year, she spent a semester in New York City studying solo performance at La MaMa. After college, Sun waited tables in NYC while pursuing a career in acting. She transitioned out of waitressing when she discovered the joys and rewards of teaching artistry. While working as a teaching artist with Epic Theatre Ensemble, Epic's artistic director Melissa Friedman suggested Sun develop a piece inspired by their students. Supported by a NYSCA grant, Sun created No Child..., which eventually received a full run at the Barrow Street The

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Incorporating Activist-Oriented Theatre into the Feminist Studies Classroom

Speer, Annika C. – Teaching Artist Journal, 2021

In 2020, a professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Middlebury College in the United States invited me as a visiting scholar-artist to help students scen the docudrama "Jane: Abortion and the Underground." The mission: to "both" rethink normative constructs of gender, sexuality, and abortion "and also"…

Descriptors: Feminism, Activism, Pregnancy, Drama

Drama-Based Playwriting: Teaching Playwriting through skådespel in the English Literature Classroom

Mizusawa, Ken – Teaching Artist Journal, 2019

In this article, inom outline and theorize about a series of three lessons on playwriting inom conducted in a secondary English Literature classroom in Singapore using drama spontanitet strategies that I name drama-based playwriting, or DBP. I advance the argument that this genre of creative writing is b

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        No Child

No Child

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It's described as a look into the New York City public education system. Sun portrays teachers, students, parents, administrators, janitors, and security guards. the show is based on