THEATER AND DANCE PRESENTS: 20 Short Pieces Taken From “365 Days/365 Plays”
Friday, November 13, 2020, 7:00pm; Saturday, November 14, 2020, 1:00pm and 7:00pm - ONLINE

Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance.

Written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by UCSB directing students. Named among Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Other grants and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She is an alum of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College.

Parks’ project “365 Days/365 Plays” (where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history.

This virtual event is free and takes place live on Zoom - click here for more information and to access the viewing links.