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“Kathryn Blume is Al Gore on crack. With red hair. And a uterus.”
I’ve been called a lot of things in my years as an actor and activist: A quirky Sarah Jessica Parker. A commie pinko. A hopium toker. Adorable.
You’ve got to figure with reactions like that, you must at least be getting someone’s attention. The paradox of doing politically-oriented theater, which also strives to be high quality art, is that you’re trying to get someone’s attention without looking like you are. You’re trying to encourage your audience to be mindful of a relevant issue by telling a story so good, they won’t be consciously aware that you’re trying to teach them something.
Profile Archives (total entries: 28)
Wangari Maathai is the first woman in East and Central Africa to receive a Ph.D., and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Ms. Maathai founded the successful
I recently discovered the graphic novel "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. I found the book so captivating that I read it all in one day. In the process, I learned more than I was ever taught in school about the fall of the Shah…
A teacher and writer in Tumwater, Washington, Jana Dean accepted a fellowship to study climate change at the edge of the arctic with the Earthwatch Institute. She embarked last February with a Canadian research team in Churchill, Manitoba to…
Internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto is one of the preeminent documentary filmmakers working today, renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity and compassion. Through her films she has been able to bring to light insular subcultures where women…
