R&D in Review: Celebrating 10 Years of Fostering Creation and Community
Leah Putnam
May 19, 2021
The Civilians celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the R&D Group with this look at its members and their work.
The Civilians celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the R&D Group with this look at its members and their work.
Lady Rizo discusses her new music video for “Under,” a song originally written for The Civilians’ Let Me Ascertain You: F*cking and Dying series.
The Civilians’ neurodiversity consultant Cortland Nesley discusses the need for Mad creatives behind the stories that portray them.
Speaking with R&D Group member Emily Lyon about the company’s classic play initiative.
A consideration of the Dutch performance-collective’s latest ritual.
Mr. Miyagi’s Theater Company returns after a fifteen-year hiatus to present a continuation of their popular show “SIDES: The Fear is Real…”
Revisit the articles that have defined Extended Play since its launch five years ago.
Sarah Gancher’s acclaimed new play “Russian Troll Farm” has been extended to November 15th, 2020.
The August 12th reading will benefit the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
In this essay, the members of the Remember2019 Collective, Arielle Julia Brown, Ashley Teague, Carlos Sirah, Mauricio Tafur Salgado and Yazmany Arboleda, talk about their eight-year durational, grassroots engagement with the Black community of the Arkansas Delta.
In this week’s update from The Civilians’ Associate Artist community, Emily Ackerman talks about discovering a treasure trove of cleaning supplies at a closed school, and donating them to essential workers.
Over the next several weeks, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group will take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. First up is Rachel Dickstein, director and co-creator of “Candidate X” with writer Aisha Zia and composer Kamala Sankaram. It will receive a work-in-progress showing on June 5 at 3:00pm EDT.
R&D Group Program Director Ilana Becker introduces the six projects in development in the 2019-20 R&D Group. Over the next several weeks, Extended Play will be publishing interviews, songs, articles and more from the R&D artists, including previews of their work and behind-the-scenes insights into their diverse research processes.
Over the next few weeks, Extended Play will be bringing you stories from members of The Civilians Associate Artist community. First up, Marsha Stephanie Blake tells us about her #MarshaMasks.
In this interview, playwright Sam Chanse discusses the workshop process for her new play “What You Are Now,” and shares some of the things she read, watched, and listened to while she was writing it.
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