{"id":11084,"date":"2022-11-02T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/american-theatre-mary-kathryn-nagle-is-first-kcrep-american-crossroads-resident-playwright\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:56:08","slug":"american-theatre-mary-kathryn-nagle-is-first-kcrep-american-crossroads-resident-playwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/american-theatre-mary-kathryn-nagle-is-first-kcrep-american-crossroads-resident-playwright\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN THEATRE | Mary Kathryn Nagle Is First KCRep American Crossroads Resident Playwright\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KANSAS CITY, MO.: <\/strong>Kansas City Repertory Theatre<\/a> (KCRep) has launched the American Crossroads Residency, a program to assist playwrights, composers, and musicians in cultivating tales that originate from Kansas City and the area, and has named playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle<\/a> because the inaugural playwright resident, from whom they’ve additionally commissioned a brand new play. Nagle will journey to Kansas City, the place she’s going to analysis and create a piece of theatre illuminating the real-life occasions, folks, and historical past of Kansas City. Nagle may have the chance to work alongside a dramaturg and can obtain a public studying of her work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The American Crossroads Residency is part of OriginKC, a pipeline aimed toward fulfilling KCRep\u2019s mission to assist various tales, neighborhood, and multigenerational viewers. OriginKC helps artists by giving them the assets to develop an thought right into a world premiere manufacturing, or present a improvement course of towards a second manufacturing to debut on KCRep\u2019s levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Crossroads Residency is a significant new initiative of our OriginKC New Works program,\u201d stated KCRep creative director Stuart Carden<\/a> in a press release. \u201cConceived during the pandemic and activated by director of artistic development, Hallie Gordon, American Crossroads Residency invites extraordinary playwrights, like Mary Kathryn Nagle, to be in \u2018residence\u2019 and engage with the people, events, and communities that have profoundly impacted the spirit and culture of the Kansas City region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nagle is an lawyer whose work focuses on the restoration of tribal sovereignty and the inherent proper of Indian nations to guard their girls and kids from home violence and sexual assault. Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and labored on the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization and filed a number of briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, together with Denezpi v. United States, United States v. Cooley, Oklahoma v. Murphy, Oklahoma v. McGirt, Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, and Brackeen v. Haaland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving grown up in the Kansas City area, I am thrilled to return home and work with KCRep to tell a Kansas City story about the Indigenous peoples and Native nations who have shaped Kansas City into the community that Kansas City is today,\u201d stated Nagle in a press release.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible opportunity, and I\u2019m excited to get started!\u201d<\/p>\n

Nagle beforehand served as the primary govt director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and is an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Program. Her performs embrace Miss Lead <\/em>(Amerinda, 59E59), Sovereignty <\/em>(Arena Stage), Manahatta <\/em>(Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and Return to Niobrara <\/em>(Rose Theater). She has obtained commissions from Arena Stage, the Rose Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, Round House Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.<\/p>\n

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