Wednesday September 25, 12-1 PM, Performing Arts and Humanities Building 216, lunch provided, RSVP by September 17
Playwright Susan McCully will discuss her new play featuring the relationship between climate science and social justice. The work was developed through McCully’s 2023 CIRCA-IMET Fellowship residency at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology and is currently under development at the World Builder Incubator which brings solution-focused fictional entertainment to mass markets.
Dr. Susan McCully is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at UMBC and is a queer feminist theatre-maker and playwright. Over the past thirty-years, all of her professional efforts involve advocacy for intersectional feminist and queer theatre whether through her own playwriting, performing, and teaching or through creating opportunities for others as a producer and dramaturg. From 2005 to 2012, she served as artistic director and dramaturg for the GirlParts Festival of New Plays at UMBC. Beginning in 2015, her playwriting work focused on creating feminist and/or queer identified work for young actors at UMBC–Voracious (2015), Leah’s Dybbuk (2015) and Girls on a Dirt Pile (2019). Susan returned to performing in her plays including Inexcusable Fantasies (Prague and New York Fringe) and Kerrmoor (Women’s Voices Theatre Festival). In 2018, RepStage commissioned her play about Etta Cone entitled All She Must Possess.