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This week, the Friends discuss immigration, or rather, how immigration is portrayed on the stage. First off is a review of The Copper Children by Karen Zacarías, a play that was performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is now being streamed by the theater. It's about a fight between white people and Mexicans in 1904 Arizona, throwing into question the arbitrary-ness of citizenship and whiteness. Then the Friends interview playwright (and FX's The Americans staff writer) Hilary Bettis. Her play, 72 Miles to Go is also about family separation, following a Mexican-American family who is torn apart when the mother, Anita, is deported to Mexico. Bettis talks about how the way we're living now in quarantine is not too different from how families who have been torn apart are living, like communicating via phone calls and not being able to touch each other. She also talks about the new Kilroys List, which annually spotlights under-produced plays by women and non-binary folks. This year, the List is a tribute to all of the shows by marginalized people who were cancelled. Here are links to things the Friends talked about in this episode. Jose's interview with Karen Zacarías about The Copper Children and how it was partially inspired by her grandfather.  The Copper Children stream (through July 22) The new Kilroys List  More info about Hilary Bettis' "batshit" play Alligator  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/tokentheatrefriends?fan_landing=true) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the Friends discuss immigration, or rather, how immigration is portrayed on the stage. First off is a review of <a href="https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-copper-children.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Copper Children by Karen Zacarías</a>, a play that was performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is now being streamed by the theater. It's about a fight between white people and Mexicans in 1904 Arizona, throwing into question the arbitrary-ness of citizenship and whiteness. Then the Friends interview playwright (and FX's The Americans staff writer) Hilary Bettis. Her play, 72 Miles to Go is also about family separation, following a Mexican-American family who is torn apart when the mother, Anita, is deported to Mexico. Bettis talks about how the way we're living now in quarantine is not too different from how families who have been torn apart are living, like communicating via phone calls and not being able to touch each other. She also talks about the new Kilroys List, which annually spotlights under-produced plays by women and non-binary folks. This year, the List is a tribute to all of the shows by marginalized people who were cancelled. Here are links to things the Friends talked about in this episode.<ul> <li>Jose's interview with <a href="https://tokentheatrefriends.com/2020/07/11/karen-zacarias-on-the-copper-children-and-how-history-keeps-repeating-itself/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Zacarías about The Copper Children</a> and how it was partially inspired by her grandfather.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-copper-children.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Copper Children stream</a> (through July 22)</li> <li>The new <a href="https://thekilroys.org/timeline-2020/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kilroys List</a> </li> <li>More info about Hilary Bettis' "batshit" play <a href="https://newplayexchange.org/plays/17568/alligator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alligator</a> </li> </ul><a href="https://www.patreon.com/tokentheatrefriends?fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/tokentheatrefriends?fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/tokentheatrefriends?fan_landing=true</a>) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ep 8: How COVID Life and Undocumented Life Aren't That Different (Feat: Hilary Bettis)

These portraits were on display at Dixon Place. They are part of Necessary Exposure’s 3rd installation which explores what it means to be writing for the theater as a woman at this moment in history. Click below to listen to an excerpt of Hilary’s play Ghosts of Lote Bravo, read by Hilary Bettis. Sound Design by Martha Goode. https://thefemaleplaywrightproject.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/hilary-bettis.mp3 “Our values are not statements we put on walls, they are actions we take behind closed doors.”  Hilary Bettis writes plays, TV and movies. Her work includes: Dolly Arkansas, Blood &amp; Dust, The Ghosts of Lote Bravo, The History of American Pornography, Alligator, Dakota Atoll, Mexico andAmerican Girls. She is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and is a 2015 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship at The Juilliard School. Bettis has received fellowships and residencies at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, New York Theatre Workshop, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Foundation for the Arts, Playwrights’ Week at The Lark, NNPN’s National Showcase of New Plays, Audrey Residency at New Georges, Two River Theater, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Workshop and a Sloan/EST Commission. Her plays, The Ghosts of Lote Bravo and The History of American Pornography made the 2015 Kilroy’s List as the most recommended new plays by a female writer. She has been a Runner-Up for the Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Award, Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Award and the Leah Ryan Prize. She is currently working on a commissioned adaptation of Miss Julie with Michel Hausmann/Miami New Drama. The Ghosts of Lote Bravo received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO, Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona. Her play, Alligator, received an Off-Broadway production this past winter with New Georges and The Sol Project. As a screenwriter, Bettis has written and produced two short films, B’Hurst and The Iron Warehouse, which have screened at multiple film festivals across the globe. Hilary is currently a writer on FX’s hit show The Americans.  She is developing a project at The Weinstein Company with Alyssa Milano producing, as well as another project at Fox 21 TVS with producer Bob Levy. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her cat and her actor-fiancee.  https://www.hilarybettiswriter.com/

These portraits were on display at <a href="http://dixonplace.org/performances/necessary-exposure-the-female-playwright-project-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dixon Place</a>. They are part of Necessary Exposure’s 3rd installation which explores what it means to be writing for the theater as a woman at this moment in history. Click below to listen to an excerpt of Hilary’s play Ghosts of Lote Bravo, read by Hilary Bettis. Sound Design by Martha Goode. <a href="https://thefemaleplaywrightproject.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/hilary-bettis.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thefemaleplaywrightproject.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/hilary-bettis.mp3</a> “Our values are not statements we put on walls, they are actions we take behind closed doors.” Hilary Bettis writes plays, TV and movies. Her work includes: Dolly Arkansas, Blood &amp; Dust, The Ghosts of Lote Bravo, The History of American Pornography, Alligator, Dakota Atoll, Mexico andAmerican Girls. She is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and is a 2015 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship at The Juilliard School. Bettis has received fellowships and residencies at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, New York Theatre Workshop, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Foundation for the Arts, Playwrights’ Week at The Lark, NNPN’s National Showcase of New Plays, Audrey Residency at New Georges, Two River Theater, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Workshop and a Sloan/EST Commission. Her plays, The Ghosts of Lote Bravo and The History of American Pornography made the 2015 Kilroy’s List as the most recommended new plays by a female writer. She has been a Runner-Up for the Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Award, Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Award and the Leah Ryan Prize. She is currently working on a commissioned adaptation of Miss Julie with Michel Hausmann/Miami New Drama. The Ghosts of Lote Bravo received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO, Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona. Her play, Alligator, received an Off-Broadway production this past winter with New Georges and The Sol Project. As a screenwriter, Bettis has written and produced two short films, B’Hurst and The Iron Warehouse, which have screened at multiple film festivals across the globe. Hilary is currently a writer on FX’s hit show The Americans.  She is developing a project at The Weinstein Company with Alyssa Milano producing, as well as another project at Fox 21 TVS with producer Bob Levy. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her cat and her actor-fiancee. <a href="https://www.hilarybettiswriter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.hilarybettiswriter.com/</a>

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