Daphnie Sicre presents the AfroLatine Superfriends Playwriting Hour with Christin Eve Cato livestreamed on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community at howlround.television on Thursday 11 May 2023 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -7).
The AfroLatine Superfriends Playwriting Hour is an unbelievable alternative to study from AfroLatine-led playwrights and theatremakers from all corners of the United States. With a wealth of expertise, they are going to share their writing practices, experiences, and insightful anecdotes on the method, inspiration, and practices of dramatic writing.
Each week, a unique playwright will carry their distinctive perspective on write dramatic texts. They will supply precious suggestions and prompts primarily based on their social consciousness, approaches to theatrical type and type, and methods to successfully talk with their meant audiences. This collection is designed for aspiring writers, college students of dramatic writing, or anybody inquisitive about creating considerate, visceral, and distinctive blueprints for efficiency, whether or not it is for the stage, display screen, or some other medium. Don’t miss out on this distinctive alternative to hone your writing expertise and study from a number of the most proficient voices within the Latine group.
Daphnie Sicre (curator & moderator) will probably be on-line by way of HowlRound throughout every session.
Christin Eve Cato is a playwright, dramaturg, and performing artist from the Bronx. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University and accomplished her BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Fordham University. Cato can be a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts. She is affiliated with NYC theater firms, Pregones/PRTT (ensemble member & former Resident Dramaturg), INTAR Theatre (UNIT 52 ensemble member), and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. She can be a playwright within the WP Theater 2022-2024 Pipeline Lab. Cato’s creative type is expressed by way of Caribbean tradition and the Afro-Latinx diaspora, honoring her Puerto Rican and Jamaican roots. Recent productions embrace Sancocho (Visión Latino Theater Company / Midwest Premiere- fifth Annual Destinos International Festival / Chicago) and NYC Off-Broadway embrace, The Good Cop (DUAF 2022); and an audio play journey, The Mayor of Hell’s Kitchen Presents: A Time Traveling Journey Through NYC’s Wild West (The Parsnip Ship & Playwrights Horizons/ NYC). Publication/Contributor credit embrace: We Are Not Neutral (Amazon Books) and, Latinx Actor Training (Routledge). Upcoming productions: SANCOCHO on the WP Theatre, co-produced by the Latinx Playwrights Circle and The Sol Project (March 2023) and THE DIAMOND, produced by The People’s Theatre Project at Pregones Theatre (April 2023) . She is repped by WME Agency and three Arts Entertainment.