The Strides Collective Presents:
A World Premiere production of Sister of Mine by Kate McGunagle
Directed by Jonathan V. Edmondson
Assistant Directed by Caitlin Alvarez
Honorary Producer: Lauren Hughes
Featuring:
A - Eliza Waterman
Z - MJ Santry
Wednesday, October 25 - Sunday, Octobe
Tennessee Playwrights Studio, a new-play development lab and theatre production company based in Nashville, has announced its Fellows and Associates for 2022.
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Jane Alison was born in 1961 in Canberra, Australia, and until she was eleven grew up in the Australian and U.S. diplomatic services. She went to public schools in Washington, D.C., and studied classics at Princeton and Brown universities and creative writing at Columbia. Before writing fiction, she worked for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Washington City Paper, the Miami New Times, and Tulane University; she has also been a freelance editor and illustrator. Since 2013 she has been a professor of creative writi
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From the Editors
Fifty-eight thousand Americans died in Viet Nam. At the time we are going to press, nearly 320,000 have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal responsibility just doesn’t work. Our hospitals are crowded, our nurses and doctors placed in harm’s way, while too many people refuse to wear masks across the state. Why?
Our mythologies, the narratives our country tells about itself, are governed by a central contradiction of the American psyche: the belief in rugged individualism versus the call to collective duty. During the Great Depression, civics textbooks claimed the trait most admired by teenagers was self-sacrifice: people surrendering their own needs to the larger good. Crime stories and gangster films often feature individuals who climb the crooked rungs of the ladder to success and are punished for their acquisitiveness,