The Girl Who Lost Her Voice
Day 3 / Apr, 14 @ 12:45 pm
1st Floor : Regency Room
A solo performance that tells the story of a woman who loses her voice when provoked and inspired by an artist who takes risks.
Bring your lunch and join the discussion about some of the issues and questions that the piece raises: from what part of ourselves do we speak? Do we have moments when we want to speak but don’t? What are the circumstances in which we can’t speak? What is required to access or recover your voice? How does censorship around gender and sexuality contribute to a silencing of the voice and the self? For ourselves and also our students, our audiences and constituencies? What are your/our voiceless tracks?
Speaker(s):
Joan Lipkin
St. Louis, Missouri
Joan Lipkin divides her time between St. Louis, New York City and other parts of the country. A playwright, lyricist, director, educator, activist and social critic, her award-winning work has been featured on network television, National Public Radio, the BBC and the Associated Press and published in numerous anthologies including HERE COME THE BRIDES (Seal Press), BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS (Applause), FEMINIST DISABILITIES STUDIES (University of Indiana), UPSTAGING BIG DADDY: DIRECTING THEATER AS IF RACE AND GENDER MATTER (University of Michigan), MYTHIC WOMEN/REAL WOMEN (Faber & Faber) and AMAZON ALL STARS (Applause), and her play THE STATE OF MARRIAGE was featured in American Theatre in March.
Joan specializes in creating work on topical issues and with marginalized populations including people with disabilities, LGBT youth and adults, women with cancer, people with Alzheimers and early stage dementia, college students and youth at risk. A James F. Hornbeck Ethical Humanist and recipient of a Visionary and many other awards, Joan was recently honored as the 2012 Arts Innovator of the Year by the Arts & Education Council. Her work has been published and presented throughout the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and Australia. This year, she will return to Yale University to direct the Kaleidoscope Project and will help implement Mosaic, a new student advocacy theatre ensemble at Auburn University.
