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Representation in Puppetry
Representation in Puppetry
Bringing Inclusivity into Child Education & Entertainment
A Panel Conversation with Donte Felder, Amy Escobar, and Bayje Felder
Intiman Theatre and South End Stories invite you to join us for a conversation about the power of puppetry to create inclusive learning environments and spark social change. The panelists will share personal memories from their childhood experiences with puppets and the media, and explore questions related to inclusion in puppetry, both in design and behind the scenes. This event will feature a viewing of the South End Stories original web series “Sunnyside Up,” and a selection of Amy Escobar’s puppetry work.
Tuesday, March 16th 2021, 5pm-6pm pacific.
Tickets are Free for Everyone. Reserve yours today to receive the Zoom link to join.
This event will be captioned. Open to all ages.
ON DEMAND viewing is not available for this event
Meet the Panelists
Donte Felder
Donte is the founder and Executive Director at South End Stories (one of Intiman’s new community partners) where they focus on “Trauma-Informed Arts Practice: Healing Through History and Creativity”. Donte is a former Seattle Public Schools educator and has been the recipient of WEA’s Humanitarian Award as well as Washington’s Golden Apple Award. Donte comes from a family of seasoned educators and community leaders focused on pursuing social justice by developing anti-racist and anti-oppression practices in schools and communities. More information about Donte and South End Stories can be found HERE.
Amy Escobar
Amy (she/her) is a writer, performer, and producer who weaves communal spells with practical magic. Her work is influenced by her background as a professional puppeteer trained in a tabletop modification of the Japanese form, Bunraku, as well as object manipulation, rod, hand, and shadow puppetry. She is the recipient of a 2018 GAP Award from Artist Trust, a 2019 CityArtists Award from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and 2018 4Culture Art Projects Grant for a commission with the 14/48 Projects as a part of their Parks Program which creates free summer theater for families in King County. Her first play Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine (Annex Theater) was a 2017 Gregory Award nominee for Outstanding New Play and was published by Mneme Press. For more about Amy and her work, visit amyescobar.com
Bayje Felder
Bayje has been acting since the age of 5. She has starred in productions through Stone Soup Theater, Stage Struck, Columbia City Youth Theater Group, Orca K-8 Drama Program, and South End Stories. Some of Bayje’s favorite roles were as Charlie, in an Orca Drama reboot, Lavendar in Matilda the Musical, and as Hamilton in the Stage Struck Summer Program. Bayje is 13, enjoys soccer, basketball, baking, singing, hanging with her best friends, and playing with her pets Tyson the hedgehog and Kairo the Akita. Bayje’s favorite mottos are “Be yourself because everyone else is taken,” and “Live everyday like it’s your last.”
Black History Month conversation
Black Theatre Beyond the Politics of Representation
A Black History Month conversation
with Stacie McCormick, PhD, & Wind Dell Woods, MFA/PhD, hosted by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, PhD
What are the tensions embedded in the politics of representation for Black theatre artists? How can Black theatre become a liberatory space that pierces the veneer of how blackness gets to be represented on stage? Intiman Theatre presents a virtual conversation that centers these questions alongside the work of Stacie McCormick, author of the 2019 book Staging Black Fugitivity, and Wind Dell Woods, playwright of Aaliyah in Underland. Open to all.
Tuesday, February 23rd 2021, 5pm-6pm pacific.
Tickets are Free for Everyone. Reserve yours today to receive the Zoom link to join.
Watch ON DEMAND
Meet the Panelists:
Stacie McCormick, PhD
Stacie is an Associate Professor of English, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Staging Black Fugitivity (Ohio State University Press 2019) which examines how contemporary Black drama represents and engages with slavery. In addition to her work in Black drama and performance, she researches and writes on corporeality, visuality, and life-writing in Black women’s expressive culture. She recently edited the special issue “Toni Morrison and Adaptation” for College Literature and she is developing a manuscript in process entitled, Notes on Creating Livable Futures: Black Motherhood, Medical Inhumanity and Reimagining Care which takes up Black women’s critical engagement (via text and performance) with obstetric racism and the medical industrial complex.
Wind Dell Woods, MFA/PhD
Wind is a playwright, scholar, and educator. As a theatre artist, his work explores the topics of race, gender, identity, community, and memory. His ten-minute play, The Black & White Minstrel Show, has been produced in Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City. His full-length plays include Jonny May’s Soul Kitchen, Skylark Dreams, A Bronzian Tale, Harold and I, and Aaliyah in Underland. Woods’ research interests are in the fields of Hip Hop Theatre, Hip Hop aesthetics, narratology, blackness and performance, as well as the themes of death and rebirth, identity, gender, and slang. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Puget Sound.
Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, PhD
Jasmine is Assistant Professor in Performing Arts & Arts Leadership at Seattle University. She is a performance historian, urban ethnographer, and curator whose work engages contemporary artistic practices, arts/cultural policy, black aesthetics, embodiment, and spatial racism. She is the Board Chair at Intiman Theatre, a board member at On the Boards, and a Washington State Arts Commissioner. Her research examines how artistic practice, race, and policy influence urban geographies and processes of neighborhood change such as displacement, dispossession, and gentrification, as well as models for equitable neighborhood practices and anti-racist, decolonial urbanism. Her writing has been published in Modern Drama, Performance Research, TDR: The Drama Review, and Women & Performance. Invested in public scholarship and art criticism, she has written for Canadian Art, The Common Reader, Howlround, Hyperallergic, the South Seattle Emerald, and the Urban Cultural Studies Blog, where she is an Assistant Editor. In 2009, she co-founded and edited The Arts Politic, a magazine dedicated to solving problems at the intersection of arts and politics. She recently curated, Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis, an exhibition and series of public programming that transitioned to virtual engagement amidst Covid-19. In 2019, students in her “Public Policy and Advocacy in the Arts” course (Seattle University) built the Seattle Arts Voter Guide, engaging Seattle City Council and School Board Candidates on their arts platforms.
Associate of Arts Degree – Learn more
Intiman Theatre is launching an Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice with Seattle Central College! Learn more about this new 2-year program as Jennifer Zeyl (Artistic Director) and Dr. Crystal Yingling (Education Director) share all of the exciting details. The program kicks off in the fall of 2021 at Seattle Central College.
Amy Zimerman is new Managing Director
Intiman welcomes Amy Zimerman as new Managing Director
Seasoned nonprofit executive and trusted advisor to nonprofit boards, Amy Zimerman, has joined Intiman Theatre as the new Managing Director. She will lead the organization alongside Artistic Director, Jennifer Zeyl, and Board Chair, Jasmine Mahmoud.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to co-lead this distinguished theatre,” says Zimerman. “This is an exciting time as we build on our tremendous momentum to re-open the theatre and continue developing and nurturing innovative programs and partnerships.”
Amy is a CPA and former auditor specializing in nonprofit organizations with a deep passion for education and the live arts. She holds Master’s degrees in Nonprofit Leadership from Seattle University and in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and she holds an MBA from the Madrid Business School. She is the Lead Instructor for the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program at the University of Washington and is a former faculty member in the Master of Nonprofit Leadership Program at Seattle University. Amy is a Board Member of the Washington Women’s Foundation and Vice President of the Cedarmere Foundation Board of Trustees. Most recently, she served as the Interim Executive Director of The Community School of West Seattle.
After a robust search and interview process that included public town halls, the Intiman board of trustees is thrilled to begin working with Amy as she guides the move to Capitol Hill and prepares the theatre to resume production in the fall.
“When finalizing the hiring decision, our board was drawn to Amy’s strong financial management and nonprofit leadership background and her broad education experience. We felt she will best complement our team, bringing new skills to the table that will help Intiman reach the next stage,” says Board Chair, Jasmine Mahmoud.
Amy took over this role from Interim Managing Director, Josef Krebs, of arts consulting firm Scandiuzzi Krebs, who served in this capacity for 14 months. During that time, the company focused on strategic planning for the future and board growth. After a year of preparation, the company is proud to welcome the next full-time leader in this role.
Intiman recently announced a partnership with Seattle Central College that will include a home for the theatre’s operations and productions at the Broadway Performance Hall and Erickson Theatre, as well as launch a new Associate of Arts Degree emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice. The theatre plans to resume production at their new location in November, 2021, and will make program announcements in early summer.
A Message from Amy
Dear Inti-fam,
This role fulfills a longtime dream for me: it combines my career experience in nonprofit and financial management with the theatre! After first moving to Seattle, I saw To Kill a Mockingbird at Intiman. For 14 years, I have loved Intiman from afar and am now delighted to have the opportunity to co-lead this distinguished theatre.
As with most of life right now, theatre is in the midst of a transformative change. I will be partnering with the board and staff to build systems, spaces and operations that enable justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and access to thrive at Intiman. As the chief administrator, I uniquely understand the power that policies, procedures and practices have in advancing the anti-racist future that we know is possible.
There is tremendous momentum surrounding our move to Capitol Hill and the launch of the Associate of Arts emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice program at Seattle Central College. Intiman is elevating educational programming as part of our new strategic plan – a move that aligns closely with my personal values, having been a champion of education throughout my nonprofit career.
I am relentlessly optimistic about the future of Intiman. I intend to work alongside and build meaningful relationships with you – our Seattle-area communities and institutions. I can’t wait to meet you, and someday soon, when it is safe again, see you in the lobby before a show.
Warmly,
Amy
Meet Amy
Join us for a community Town Hall with Amy on Thursday January 21st, 5-6pm PT. We are looking forward to this virtual conversation with Amy where she will welcome any questions you may have!
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