ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Meet Idris Goodwin, the playwright of Alice and the New Wonderful

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning storyteller for multiple generations. An accomplished playwright, breakbeat poet, content creator and arts champion, Goodwin is recognized as a culture bearer who celebrates community values and cultivates histories with care. Idris is the author of over 60 original plays ranging from his Hip Hop inspired breakbeat series to historical dramas to works for young audiences. Titles such as And In This Corner Cassius Clay, How We Got On, Hype Man: A Break Beat Play, This is Modern Art (co-written with Kevin Coval) and the ground breaking Free Play: open source scripts for an antiracist tomorrow, are widely produced across the country by a diverse mix of professional and academic venues. Driven by a passion for cultural impact and civic engagement, Idris currently serves as Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theater. Prior to this he was Executive Director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, where he also taught as a professor in The Department of Theater and Dance. Previous to this Idris led StageOne Family Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky as Producing Artistic Director. Idris is Board President of Theater For Young Audiences/USA and also serves on the board at Children’s Theater Foundation Association. In addition to Idris’s work in theater he’s created original content for and/or appeared on Nickelodeon, HBO Def Poetry, Sesame Street, NPR, BBC Radio, and the Discovery Channel. “Your House is Not Just A House,” his first picture book, will be published by Harper Collins in 2024.

Find more information about Idris at www.idrisgoodwin.com

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was born on January 27, 1832 in the English village of Daresbury. He grew up in a large family which enjoyed composing magazines and putting on plays. He studied at Oxford University and later became a mathematics instructor. He wrote many books on mathematics and logic and enjoyed inventing puzzles and games and playing croquet.

His love of nonsense and his fondness for small children led to the writing of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). He wrote a sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, in 1871. He published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems in 1869, The Hunting of the Snark in 1876 and Sylvie and Bruno in 1889.

Lewis Carroll wrote and received ‘wheelbarrows full’ of letters (more than 98,000!). Many of these dealt with religious and political issues while others were full of light-hearted nonsense. He also excelled in artfully staging photographs of friends, including artists and writers like Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He died, aged 65, of pneumonia in 1898.

Source: The British Library

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Music Lesson

Many of the musical arrangements in Alice and the New Wonderful were created by our Youth Ensemble singers. When a group of singers perform together, they are often led by someone called a conductor. Check out this video series with Jack, Mosaic alumnus and teaching artist, and learn some conducting skills!