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I Interview Playwrights Part 765: Nehprii Amenii
Hometown: Augusta Georiga
Current Town: Brooklyn Ny...
Tell me about the Women Playwrights International Conference
The Women Playwrights International Conference is an event that happens every 3 years.
Each year it’s hosted in a different country, from Switzerland, Mumbai, and
Philippines. This year it was held at the University of Capetown in South Africa. Women playwrights from around
the world submit scripts in hopes of begin able to share their work with an
international audience. A local director
and cast are assigned to work with each script. In addition to the staged
readings, there are daily keynote speakers, panel discussions, writing
workshops, and evening performances.
This years conference, was scheduled to coincide with the Grahmstown Arts Festival, which is the
largest theatre festival on the African continent, so participants were really
inundated with inspiration. It was an honor to share the stage with playwrights
from around the world such as Talia Pura of Canada, Fatima Uygun of
Scottland, The Gurilla Girls, Herlina Syarifuding of Indonesia, Mumbii Kaigway of Kenya, and more…
...Tell me, if you will, a story from your
childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
Great question. Ummm…
Mud pies. I remember, I was the best at
them. My friends would make a mud pie
what would last for just moments before crumbling. But mine would last for
days… weeks even, and stay perfectly round and smooth. I was in Georgia, where
the dirt is red. And I remember at 4 years old, trying to explain to my friends
“you have to dig really deep until you get to the sticky dirt!” Well, later I
realized, I had discovered clay.
(Interesting that also became my first fine arts medium.) And, I guess, that experience is not different
with my writing or who I am. I try to dig really deep down into myself… where
things get pretty sticky…and honest. And from that place, I try to pull up the dirt and turn it into
something smooth, refined—beautiful..…and something that can have long lasting
impact…. Hahah, there it is. It’s all just Mud pies!
Full Interview here
http://aszym.blogspot.com/2015/07/i-interview-playwrights-part-765.html
