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Friday, April 23:

A talk back will follow Friday's performance with Dr. Anna Sorensen.

Anna Sorensen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology & Criminal Justice Studies Department. Dr. Sorensen teaches introductory courses and courses in social inequality, social movements, and gender, sex and sexualities. Her research interests relate to questions about how people act collectively to create a more just world. She is passionate about helping students develop skills and knowledges that prepare them for their careers and help them to become engaged citizens in their communities. Through her teaching, research, and service work, Dr. Sorensen seeks to help make the campus community welcoming and inclusive; beyond campus, she pursues these same goals in the wider community through her work as a Canton Village Trustee. Dr. Sorensen lives in Canton with her wife and family and spends as much of her free time as possible either doing DIY projects or enjoying the outdoors.  

Saturday, April 24th:

A talk back will follow Saturday's performance with Babara Pitts McAdams, a member of the Tectonic Theatre Project.

Barbara Pitts McAdams is co-author of Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process for Devising Theater. As actor/dramaturg for The Laramie Project, she appeared at BAM, Alice Tully Hall, Union Square Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, and Sundance Theater Lab. She also appears in HBO Films’ The Laramie Project and shares an Emmy nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. As a Moment Work instructor, she has led training labs and devised new plays at numerous colleges and high schools. Barb has also served as an adjunct professor for Drew University and CUNY’s Applied Theater MA program. In residencies at high schools (Kimball Union Academy and the Calhoun School), Barb used Moment Work to devise a play for eighteen students called The Incident. Barb’s acting credits include Well (with Lisa Kron, Huntington Theatre); Leigh Fondakowski’s I Think I Like Girls (HERE, Cherry Lane, Encore (SFO) and La Jolla Playhouse) and The People’s Temple (Guthrie, Berkeley Rep); Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (Triad Stage, NC); West Coast premieres of Stephen Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Rebecca Gilman’s Sweetest Swing In Baseball (Magic Theater, San Francisco); Susan Bernfield’s Nice Chair (New Georges); Michelle Carter’s Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs (SPF Festival); and Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream (Encore Theater, SFO). TV/Film: Forever, Person of Interest, Kidnapped, 30 Rock, One Life to Live, As The World Turns, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Comedy Central’s Pulp Comics, and the award-winning web series Anyone But Me (on Hulu). Under her own producing arm, Pitts McAdams Devising Works, she has three ongoing projects: #HereToo: Youth Activism in America (winner: Kennedy Center/ACTF Citizen Artist Award, Best Director), Because I Am Your Queen by Mina Samuels, and BIRD by Kylie Vincent.