Artists Rep Announces New Artistic Directing Fellow
The inaugural fellow, Zi Alikhan, will collaborate with the companyâs artistic director while also heading up ARTâs new DNA: Oxygen initiative for BIPOC theater practitioners.
By
Fiona McCann
2/22/2021 at 10:30am
Zi Alikhan, Artists Rep s inaugural artistic directing fellow
Artists Rep has announced Zi Alikhan as the inaugural artistic directing fellow, a new position that will include directing the companyâs new DNA: Oxygen initiative. Alikhan, a 33-year-old director currently based in New York, took the new post this weekâa two-year fellowship (with an optional third year) intended to prepare recipients to lead arts organizations.
February 08 2021 A Long Distance Affair
Tracy Francis of Boom Arts and local actor Barbie Wu are involved in A Long Distance Affair, a Zoom immersive play as part of a series that started before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through 10-minute plays, held Feb. 11-21, the audience learns about people from around the world; the latest version features 18 artists from Portland, Beirut (Lebanon), Lagos (Nigeria), Mumbai (India), Los Angeles and Mexico City.
It s produced by Juggerknot Theatre Company ( Miami Motel Stories ) and PopUp Theatrics.
Francis directs the Beirut play, about a dance class and connection, and the Portland play, which fittingly is a sci-fi piece about protest and unrest and a woman stuck in a time loop (in which the old version kills the young version).
Aww, thank you so much. I loved working on
TAKARAZUKA!!! I was amazed at the scale of the production and how hard the EWP team worked to bring the show to life. The costumes, choreography, dancing. To even attempt to recreate the massive spectacle of Takarazuka, you need a lot of design.
Where are you spending these past pandemic months: New York, London or Aiea, Hawaii?
At the top of the pandemic, I was in the U.K. Mostly I ve been in New York, but I was able to go home to see my family in Hawai i, which meant the world to me.
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