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Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret, Season 58: Pulse

Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret, Season 58: Pulse
https://www.yalecabaret.org

Mission Statement:
The mission of Yale Cabaret: Pulse is to celebrate original work, uplift inclusivity, and provide space for experimentation. 

Yale Cabaret is a collective, made up of artists that are itching to create work that doesn’t just speak, but yells from their guts. We encourage our collective to delve into devised work, new work and new ways of imagining published work.  

Welcome to Yale Cabaret 58, Pulse: where the beating heart of the community is activated, the artists’ impulses are nurtured, and the space is thumping.


Core Values:
Bold - To motivate artists to make courageous choices that pushes their artistry and encourages them to unapologetically claim space 
Experimentation - To reframe the idea of product, and to highlight and celebrate process. Encourage finding joy and excitement within the room, and daring to explore a new theatrical role. 
Original -  To celebrate work that comes from the pulsing heart of the community. 
Abundance - to foster an environment of respect, joy and nourishment for artists, even in the face of adversity. Our artistic minds are infinite and capable of discovering creative solutions.

BLKS Post Show Discussion Moderation

In November 2020, I led a post show discussion with BLKS playwright, Aziza Barnes, and Director Tonasia Jones of the Boston production at SpeakEasy Stage after our opening night performance. I was the Assistant Director and Casting Consultant on the show, and it was a pleasure to discuss Barnes’s work as a writer, themes in BLKS, the rehearsal process for bringing BLKS to life, and our hopes for audiences to take from the show.

Watch the discussion here. Spoiler Alert this discussion contains plot points in BLKS.

NNPN Producer in Residence (Second Year)

National New Play Network Announces Collaboration Grant Recipients and Producers in Residence

Eleven rising theater leaders comprise this year's Producers; five new projects will be supported by NNPN's Collaboration Fund. National New Play Network has announced awardees for two of its anchor programs: Producers in Residence and the Collaboration Fund.

Company One Theatre’s Better Future Series

Company One Theatre series focuses on the future of Boston neighborhoods - The Bay State Banner

Celina Colby is an arts and travel reporter with a fondness for Russian novels.... VIEW BIO Jasmine Brooks is the project's creative producer. COURTESY PHOTO On June 12, Company One Theatre (C1) launched their Better Future Series, a monthly online discussion among artists, community organizers and policymakers about the future of neighborhoods around Boston.

BWW Interview: Jasmine Brooks And Summer L. Williams of BETTER FUTURE SERIES at Company One Theatre

Summer L. Williams, associate artistic director and co-founder of Company One Theatre is, among other goals, using this time as a chance to reset. She ponders, a?oeHow do I take advantage of this chance to reimagine the way I think or work? I am finding things that I thought were internal pressures that are actually external pressures.a??

Wolf Play at Company One Theatre

BWW Review: WOLF PLAY at Company One Theatre

For a long time within their history, Company One has cornered the market in Boston for selecting those cutting-edge new works that are able to effectively spark conversations and juxtaposing them against each other in ways that are both productive and incendiary.

NNPN Producer in Residence

NNPN Announces 2019-20 Program Awardees

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 2019-20 grant recipients, including the 2019 Smith Prize for Political Theatre, seven Producer Residencies, and eight Collaboration Fund awards that will support partnerships between multiple Member Theaters, playwrights, and other theater makers in various projects.

Senior Thesis at Boston University: Final Flight by Olivia Z. Cote

May 2018
Trailer for FINAL FLIGHT directed by Jasmine Brooks