welcome...
...to the website of Paula Cizmar, an award-winning playwright whose work often combines poetry and politics to get at the heart of a matter. Her plays have been produced all over the world. Here you'll find information about upcoming performances, past productions, and new plays, plus news and reviews, photos, and thoughts, always changing, always growing.
W+ED by the numbers: 34 plays, 146+ events, and 1 big blue wave
So many people from across the country–and in Australia, Scotland, and Canada–joined together to start a conversation about democracy using theatre as the way to get people thinking. And talking. Some events were in university settings, some in theatres, some in union halls, some in neighborhood centers, some in backyards. We in these communities were…
W+ ED – It’s on!
After a marathon kickoff to Women+ on the Edge of Democracy–in the form of 12 hours of readings at The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont–the W+ED project is making its way around the country, with 100 presenters from 40 states (and Canada, Scotland, and Australia, too!). My short comedy, THE BETSY…
APPEALING goes to Kenya
Climate Change Theatre Action continues, with plays geared to the theme The Time Is Now being presented in Kenya. Esther Kamba, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya, is producing a reading of CCTA plays including Appealing by Paula Cizmar on October 9 at 6 pm. The event is part of the activities for Mazingira Day,…
ideas and issues
and thoughts about life, justice, culture, and the way we can all try to make a better world. that's the goal. keep on keeping on.