Event

Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities (PPEH) and the Theater Arts Program host Professor Sarah Standing (CUNY) as part of a two-day program at the intersection of avant garde theater, social protest, and climate change communication.
 

Dr. Sarah Ann Standing is an Assistant Professor in the Humanities Department at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) whose artistic work and scholarship explore the relationship between theatre / performance and ecology. At City Tech, Sarah recently directed Victoria Lichterman’s play, Fallen Sparrow, and has devised five productions of Telling Our Stories, a collaborative theatrical investigation into environment, heritage, and location. Sarah’s own play, Climate Changes Culture, had its first workshop production in 2013. 
Sarah earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of CUNY, and returned there as a 2013-14 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She has contributed a chapter to the book Readings in Performance and Ecology(Palgrave Macmillan), as well as articles to the journals PAJ, Theatre Topics, The Eugene O’Neill Review, American Theatre, and Terra Nova.

Tuesday, 10/27
10:30 Sarah Standing will join the undergraduate seminar led by Marcia Ferguson for directors

12:00 Sarah will attend Bethany Wiggin's seminar on Sustainability and Utopianism for a discussion of recent stagings of Brecht/Weill's Rise and Fall of Mahagonny as a parable for climate change.

5:00 Directors' roundtable on Performance, Politics, and Climate Change featuring Sarah Ann Standing, Professor Marcia Ferguson, Quinn Bauriedel (Pig Iron Theater Company, Co-Artistic Director), PPEH artist-in-residence Mary Mattingly, Sarah Sanford (Swarthmore) and others TBA. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge. 

About Sarah Sanford

A performer, director, and teacher, Sarah Sanford moved to Philadelphia in 2001 to make a show with Pig Iron Theatre and officially joined the company in 2002.  Since then she has co-created/performed in ten of the company’s works and now serves on the core faculty at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training.  Sarah has made her own work, directed other people’s work, and acted on several local stages including the Arden, Lantern, Wilma, and Theatre Exile.  She has performed internationally with The Riot Group, Jo Stromgren Kompani, and Volcano and has taught workshops all over the globe.  She has been movement director/choreographer for several productions including The Acting Company’s As You Like It and Villanova’s Big Love.  B.A. from Swarthmore College and Certificate of Completion from École Jacques Lecoq.  Sarah received the 2010 F. Otto Haas Award for Best Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist. 

Wednesday, 10/28
12:00 Luncheon Lecture. Professor Sarah Ann Standing, "350.org as Eco-Theatre and Performance Art." Box lunches are available for those who register. This event is free and open to the public. Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge. 

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