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ANTHROPOHAGY & VERFREMDUNGSEFFEKT.
Anthropophagy and Verfremdungseffekt
describe a great deal of my work.
Anthropophagy, in its strict definition, is cannibalism. However, Oswald de Andrade (a Brazilian poet) has appropriated it as a way to understand and create culture - you ingest the influences that surround you, and use that to create your own culture, an anthropophagic one.
Verfremdungseffekt was Brecht's term for the alienation effect he strove for in much of his work. Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
They are two different ways to talk about the same thing.
describe a great deal of my work.
Anthropophagy, in its strict definition, is cannibalism. However, Oswald de Andrade (a Brazilian poet) has appropriated it as a way to understand and create culture - you ingest the influences that surround you, and use that to create your own culture, an anthropophagic one.
Verfremdungseffekt was Brecht's term for the alienation effect he strove for in much of his work. Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
They are two different ways to talk about the same thing.
When I create my own work, I find myself drawn to projects that express these ideas. But I also find, when I'm working on a new play or a classic play, thinking like this is helpful. In this way, no one's life experience is totally alien or totally familiar and there is always something I can bring to the table.
Years ago, I saw a greeting card that described a person as a blank canvas and the people they met in their lives as paint. At the end of their life, this person was a masterpiece because of the people they met.
I am who I am as an artist because of my family, my friends, and my teachers.
Years ago, I saw a greeting card that described a person as a blank canvas and the people they met in their lives as paint. At the end of their life, this person was a masterpiece because of the people they met.
I am who I am as an artist because of my family, my friends, and my teachers.
My Portfolio.
PLAYS I'VE DIRECTED.
My Biography & Resumé.
MY BIOGRAPHY.
DONYA K. WASHINGTON: Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan adapted by Theroun D’arcy Patterson (Alliance Theatre, Theatre for the Very Young), a workshop of Eve’s Song by Patricia Ione Llyod (The Playwrights Realm), Freedom Train by Marvin Gordon (Theatreworks USA), a workshop of Untitled Michael Jackson Project by Donya K. Washington (Midnight Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Pearl Sings the Blues by Vivia Font (Midnight Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), OSF Presents: Fill in the Blank by Claudia Alick (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), God, Man and Devil (Target Margin), Goddess Hair by Patricia Ione Lloyd (Redshirt Entertainment), Stall by brokeMC (Tiny Rhino), a reading of Venus (2012 Conference of Curious People), Pete the Girl by Charity Henson-Ballard (Rising Circle/Culture Project Women’s Center Stage), Little Louise by Patricia Ione Lloyd (Fire This Time Festival), a reading of Sound by Don Nguyen (The Civilians), Abby in the Summer by AP Andrews (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School), Brooklyn Skank by Fernanda Coppel (Subject Theatre Company), Come Back to Me by Jesse Cameron Alick and Manikato adapted by Jesse Cameron Alick (Shakespeare in Paradise, Bahamas), Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws (Target Margin Theatre), Spunk (Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME), Jump Jim Crow by Jesse Cameron Alick music and lyrics by Justin Levine (Subjective Theater Company), Cold Keener by Zora Neale Hurston (Target Margin), 30 Patriot Actors by Erin Browne (Columbia).
Work with 52nd Street Project, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, The Civilians and Williamstown. Training: MFA, Directing - Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women's Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre. Member 2010-2011 Civilians' R&D Group.
Work with 52nd Street Project, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, The Civilians and Williamstown. Training: MFA, Directing - Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women's Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre. Member 2010-2011 Civilians' R&D Group.
MY RESUMÉ.