No Dream Deferred introduced Dare to Dream that includes M.D. Schaffer livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Friday 24 March 2023 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Playwright M. D. Schaffer sits right down to share how their dream of writing and premiering Drapetomania grew to become a actuality.
M.D. Schaffer (they/they) is a queer, non-Binary, African American author born in Houston, Texas and at the moment residing in New York City. Their earlier works embody F***in’ Howard Phillips with the JaYo Theatre Company, Hotel On Fremont at The Lewis Center for the Arts, and A Rodeo Clown with the Obsidian Theatre Festival. They acquired their BA in anthropology at Princeton University and their MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at New York University, Tisch. Their works study the relation between Americana historic romanticism and American up to date actuality.