11/10/2019
Downtown Girls Theatre Collective was honored to welcome American playwright and novelist, Kia Corthron, as our first guest artist this morning.
Kia led a writing workshop for our girls and guests at Charlie Smith High School in Trench Town, guiding participants through the process of writing about personal relationships and sharing them with one another.
At our young people's reluctance to share their work, she advised: "You might think no one cares about your story, but it has a universal effect."
We are humbled that Kia will continue her relationship with DGTC virtually and continue to give our girls writing prompts and feedback as they develop into young artists.
Kia Corthron's plays include A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons co-production with The Play Company and the Culture Project), Steel Hammer (co-writer, Anne Bogart/SITI Company, ATL Humana, BAM, national and international tours), Trickle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Life by Asphyxiation (The Drama Club at Joe's Pub, Playwrights Horizons), Moot the Messenger (ATL Humana), Light Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Snapshot Silhouette (Minneapolis' Children's Theatre), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (ATL Humana, Mark Taper Forum), The Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Breath, Boom (London's Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, and elsewhere), Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's Center Stage, Yale Rep, London's Donmar Warehouse), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage Company), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx). She was the 2017 resident playwright at Chicago's Eclipse Theatre, which produced three of her plays including the premiere of Megastasis. For her body of work she has been honored with the Playwrights' Center's McKnight National Residency, the Otto Award for Political Theatre; the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama. @ Kingston, Jamaica
