Curt Columbus and Executive Director Tom Parrish In Case You Missed It:Highlights from America Too and

In Case You Missed It

Two free online series debuted this winter, providing audiences with access to fascinating conversation and inside access

America Too: Reckon-

ing and Resilience, a co-production with Providence Public Library, marked the sixth year of the America Too initiative. The five-part online series launched in January with stories and performances from our community and catalyzed community dialogue around the many challenges and potential opportunities of this time in history. Episodes about the origins of the project, education, activism, healthcare, and military service confronted the aftermath of a polarizing election season, observed the year’s anniversary of the arrival of the pandemic in Rhode Island, and reckoned with the structural racism and anti-Black violence that continues to rock our communities. The project culminates with a free, live, in-person event on Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm. The event will be held outdoors in Adrian Hall Way, adjacent to the theater on Washington St. Health and safety protocols including mask wearing and social distancing will be enforced. Registration for the June 17 event and recordings of all online episodes are available at trinityrep.com/americatoo2021.

The Writer’s Room

opened up the playwright’s process and introduced audiences to four new plays, each at a different stage of their development through scene readings and conversation with the creative team. We got glimpses into Deborah Salem Smith’s new play, Anna K., a dynamic re-imagining of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Next we got a look at La Mancha, an English/Spanish bilingual adaptation of Don Quixote created by director Marcel Mascaro and the cast. This brisk new version of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel will be produced as part of Teatro en El Verano this summer. Read more about it on page 5. Audiences next got a rare, early look at Wrap Our Injured Flesh Around You, a touching new play by James Ijames, a Philadelphia-based actor, director, educator, and playwright who joined Trinity Rep’s commissioned playwrights program in early 2020. A special episode of The Writer’s Room in May featured four short plays by the winners of our Write Here! Write Now! high school student playwrighting competition. You can read more about the student writers and their plays on page 14. The final episode of The Writer’s Room will air on June 8 at 7:30 pm ET. Orlando Hernández will give viewers an early look at his adaptation for the stage of Marta Martínez’s oral history project about Rhode Island’s vibrant Latino community. More information is available at trinityrep.com/ newplays.

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