One of my favorite things is when art and politics and policy and science and caring for the earth all come together. So it’s a thrill for me to be a part of the Los Angeles Public Art Biennial 2016–CURRENT: LA. This year the topic is water. I’m…
Calling all lovers of theatre, ancient rites, modern rituals, spectacle, movement, music, fun! venus in orange has a brand new website–with excerpts from the script available for reading. venus in orange is a performance piece with movement and music, written by Paula Cizmar (that’s me) and Laura Shamas. Our unconventional play…
THE CHISERA will be performed on Earth Day, Friday April 22, as the first play in Mach 33: The Festival of New Science Plays. Directed by Arden Thomas, and part of a special Earth Day celebration that includes a sound artist from the Owens Valley, plus food trucks, and free…
And The March to MARCH campaign has begun. SEVEN, the documentary play, has already had productions and readings in many parts of the world, but there are vast numbers of people who still know very little about domestic violence or human trafficking and how this particularly affects women–and what…
Nothing is more exciting than witnessing words on a page transform into movement, sound, action–bodies moving through space, actors giving life to characters, stories unfolding in real time. With SEVEN, the documentary play conceived by Carol K. Mack and written by seven female playwrights–Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth…
There are so many untold stories–and so many extraordinary women who haven’t been spoken of, let alone depicted onstage. The 365 Women A Year project is designed to start solving that disparity, with new short plays about incredible women in history–one for each day of the year–being created annually. (It’s almost…
Actually, it’s in progress and moving into Phase 2. Water Rites is a big project–so I can only deal with it by thinking of it as a single step, and then another, and then another. It’s a hybrid project–so I can only deal with it by thinking of it…
More and more, playwrights are sending out invitations. Not just the typical request to attend a reading or a production or workshop–but something even more imaginative. They’re inviting other playwrights to join them in creating group projects. It’s a trend that I’m really enjoying–not only as a willing participant, but also…
When Jon Lawrence Rivera asked me to be one of the writers of The Hotel Play, he hadn’t even gotten all the words out of his mouth before I said, Yes. He hadn’t even gotten around to describing the project. Or what it was intended for. But I said yes…
Boo-no and Oskey Oscar, hard at work, burning the midnight oil. They found a little bit of time to share this tiny excerpt from my short play Boodaboy. A scene between Dog and Marge… MARGE: You can appreciate that, can’t you? How nice it is to drive home from work? …