The Collective Perspective

Katrin Arefy is an essayist and playwright based in Berkeley, California, whose creative nonfiction has appeared in Free State Review, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and Water~Stone Review, and was received with acclaim at numerous literary events in California, including Action Fiction in San Francisco and Roar Shack in Los Angeles. Her play The Elbisnopsers was selected by the Midtown Internat...

Remy Shaffer is a published author, playwright, and podcast producer from the central PA area as well as a self proclaimed hypeman, and father of 4. Remy Trails Podcast https://linktr.ee/Remyxzer0 @remyxzer0 BUT WHAT HE REALLY MEANS... Tom Schmitt as Sam Julie Steakhouse as Julia Jason Cohen as Ian With Isaac J. Conner reading Stage Directions/Cues Theme Music: "Classical" by Joel David Rook.

David Froenicke is a filmmaker and writer from NYC. David has worked in the entertainment industry and in events as a video projectionist. He's freelanced as a photographer during fashion week. David has shot, edited, and produced music videos and a YouTube series. He also worked in a green screen studio that has worked on everything from commercials, to music videos, to corporate videos. @davebsw...

Reg Flowers is an NYC-based artist, activist, and educator. Reg Flowers is an artist, activist and educator, whose work is rooted in ancient shamanic, African trickster, and Brazilian Joker traditions. Reg uses Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, Navajo Peacemaking and other anti-oppression techniques, as the foundation of their theater-making, mediation, problem-solving and group healing pr...

Jake Shore is an NYC-based author, playwright, and educator. Jake Shore's short stories have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart, Litro, New Contrast, J Journal and others. In 2016, the Flea Theater presented his play Holy Moly and its tandem novel, A Country for Fibbing. Broadwayworld states, ‘it marks the first time a play with a correlating novel has been simultaneously released in the...

Kimberly Eaton is a PA-based writer, actor, and director. She has three plays to her credit, one which has been nationally produced by the American Ethical Union. She is a founding member of The Susquehanna Valley Ethical Society and has earned three Thomas Paine Citizen Journalism Awards from the A.C.L.U. and a few adversaries. In her career life, she received a Master's degree in Aquatic Ecology...

Jomack Miranda is an NYC-based actor. He was trained at the The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland (class of 2018) and is also a student at SUNY Empire State College, receiving a BA in playwriting under the tutelage of playwright Lynda Crawford. He looks forward to working in Film, TV and Theater. https://newplayexchange.org/users/41034/jomack-miranda @jomackmiranda AKIL & VICKY Anthony T....

Katrin Arefy is a SF Bay Area-based essayist, educator, and playwright Katrin Arefy is an essayist and playwright based in Berkeley, California, whose creative nonfiction has appeared in Free State Review, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and Water~Stone Review, and was received with acclaim at numerous literary events in California, including Action Fiction in San Francisco and Roar Shack in Los...

Larry Rinkel came to playwriting after teaching college English and then working as a technical writer, a career from which he retired in 2014. A lifelong devotee of art, theatre, film, and classical music, he has had plays produced all over the United States. His full-length "A Kreutzer Sonata," about a talented Jewish piano student, was awarded Best Play at the Secret Theatres 2017 UNFringed Fes...

Christopher Raishun Marshall is an NYC-based actor, director, and screenwriter. Christopher received his MA in Acting from the University of Memphis in 2013 and moved to NYC in 2014 to pursue a career in Classical Theater and TV/FILM. He has since trained with Black Arts Intensive workshop at Stella Adler and has been trained in Jacques Lecoq and Mask, Clown and Commedia Dell' Arte, Classical Acti...

Stefan Eisenhower is a PA-based actor, technical director, and playwright. Born in England, Raised in Washington DC and Currently living in Central PA, Stefan Eisenhower is the Tech Director of RiverStage Community Theatre and Gaspipe Community Theatre out of Lewisburg, PA. Stefan has been in the theatre industry for over a decade in some sort of capacity. Can be seen more backstage than on-stage,...

Jove Graham is an actor, singer, musician, director, producer, scientist, playwright, and Star Wars aficionado. He is a Pennsylvania native who's also lived in the Washington DC and San Francisco Bay areas. In college he double-majored in engineering and theatre and took a year "off" between college and graduate school to work full-time as an apprentice at a Philadelphia theatre company before mov...

Stephen Bracco is an NYC-based playwright. A native New Yorker now living in Newark, Stephen has produced his plays at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, The Brick, the (now defunct) Secret Theatre, the Players Theatre, Manhattan Repertory, and Winterfest at Hudson Guild. Selected staged plays: "Simius", "Abominable Fancy", "Saint Fancy", "Bro", and the Cecil & Aaron Cycle of short plays about N...

Co-hosted by Noah Fenstermacher, the first in his family to go to university. Education can be taught formally or informally and there are myriad facets of each type. Additionally, there are different points of view on what a worldview actually is and facets of those views. In this conversation, we’ll explore Noah’s experience as well as the different factors that color our education and subsequen...

Your Experience with Race and Privilege Continued Have you always based your identity on race? Have you never done so? What do you think views on race will look like in the future when some sense of societal normalcy has taken shape again? What have your experiences with racism looked like? Have you never experienced or exercised racism? Do you feel you understand or have begun understanding your...

Your Experience with Race and Privilege Have you always based your identity on race? Have you never done so? What do you think views on race will look like in the future when some sense of societal normalcy has taken shape again? What have your experiences with racism looked like? Have you never experienced or exercised racism? Do you feel you understand or have begun understanding your privilege?...

Your Experience with Race and Privilege Have you always based your identity on race? Have you never done so? What do you think views on race will look like in the future when some sense of societal normalcy has taken shape again? What have your experiences with racism looked like? Have you never experienced or exercised racism? Do you feel you understand or have begun understanding your privilege?...

Have you always based your identity on race? Have you never done so? What do you think views on race will look like in the future when some sense of societal normalcy has taken shape again? What have your experiences with racism looked like? Have you never experienced or exercised racism? Do you feel you understand or have begun understanding your privilege? Do you think privilege does not exist?...

Michael Brotten is a musician and the founder of Infinity Artists Group. He was born and raised in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado where all types of music fill the mountains, cities, and plains with an undeniable passion and energy for life. Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, Classical, and R&B were some of his favorites and drove his passion for music; both recorded music and live performance...

Nazelah Jamison is a San Francisco Bay Area-based poet, vocalist, and comedienne. She is also an emcee who has learned from and graced the stage with some of the finest people in entertainment today. She has competed on and/or coached 12 National Slam teams; and has performed poetry & music across 3 continents. Until she retired in 2014, she hosted and co-produced The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mi...

Anthony Freda is a Long Island, NY-based illustrator, activist, and educator. Freda works as an editorial illustrator, visual political activist and as part of the adjunct faculty of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In addition to many mainstream clients, such as Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and The New York Times, he also contributes to many alternative news websites and pu...

Larry Rinkel is an NYC-based writer, musician, educator, and playwright. Larry Rinkel came to playwriting after teaching college English and then working as a technical writer, a career from which he retired in 2014. A lifelong devotee of art, theatre, film, and classical music, he has had plays produced all over the United States. His full-length "A Kreutzer Sonata," about a talented Jewish piano...

Christopher Raishun Marshall is an NYC-based actor, director, and writer. He received his MA in Acting from the University of Memphis in 2013 and moved to NYC in 2014 to pursue a career in Classical Theater and TV/FILM. He has since trained with Black Arts Intensive workshop at Stella Adler and has been trained in Jacques Lecoq and Mask, Clown and Commedia Dell' Arte, Classical Acting, Viewpoints,...

Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser is a Toronto-based musician, conductor, and educator. A passionate communicator, Daniel brings clarity and meaning to the concert hall, fostering deep connections between audiences and performers. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser is concurrently the Principal Education Conductor and Community Ambassador of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Artist in Residence and Community Amb...

Lara Marcin is an NYC-based dancer, designer, director, and producer. Lara’s heart is easily captured by unabashed grooves. She is a designer in the immersive space and an enthusiast of the stories bodies can tell. Among other things, Lara is interested in devising dance languages, making the surreal tangible, forming game interactions, creating live and filmed dance content for musicians, and des...