Edyka served as a founding co host of dfws first poetry radio show the free word on deep ellum on air. A playwright and performance artist, grise is a member of the womens project playwrights lab and a recipient of the princess grace award in theatre directing and the playwrights centers jerome fellowship. With a sure hand, playwright virginia grise creates a highly theatrical presentday barrio that houses the characters of one story but uses explosive language and poetic movement to reach beyond and tell us so much more. By virginia grise, irma mayorga the panza monologues by virginia grise, irma mayorga the panza monologues is an original solo performance piece based on womens stories about their panzas tu sabesthat roll of belly we all try to hide. This play is recommended for audiences over age 12. Please contact the event organizers for further details. The play follows a queer chicanao family as they try to envision an earth and sky without police and their helicopters. The kcactf latinx playwriting award desires to stimulate the voices of young latinx playwrights in america.
In addition, grise is the cowriter of the panza monologues university of texas press. Gordon, georgia is an awardwinning playwright, and director. Written, compiled, and collected by virginia grise and irma mayorga and. Virginia grise is a chicana cultural workertheatre artist from san antonio, texas whose published work includes university of texas press, an edited volume of zapatista communiques titled autonomedia press and blu yale university press. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read blu. The following article leverages these considerations while examining how the female youth in virginia grises play blu negotiate discursive, physical, and sexual. The award will be presented to the author of the outstanding play written by a student of hispanic heritage. Contest judge david hare commented, virginia grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her play blu stays. Thtr 486 fa a writing workshop devoted to the creation of living, breathing characters, exploring a range of techniques designed to develop authenticity. Grises most recognized work is blu yale university press, the winner of the 2010 yale drama series award and a finalist for the kennedy center for the performing arts latinoa playwrighting award. I should add that i too also have a copy of this cdd grise not, which i received from harvey, who got it from herman.
Her other published work includes the panza monologues cowritten with from panzas to prisons, from street theatre to largescale multimedia performances, from princess to chafa virginia grise writes plays that are set in. Virginia grise and pablo miguel martinez quadrangle room moderator. Virginia grises blu project muse johns hopkins university. Virginia grise is an awardwinning playwright, and director. Creating characters thtr 486 section 63126r gfs 112 fall 2012 4 units wed. Sensors, networks, hackers, and the future of urban life the future series, by carlo ratti, matthew claudel. Selected as the winner of the 2010 yale drama competition from more than 950 submissions, virginia grise s play blu takes place in the present but looks back on the not too distant past through a series of prayers, rituals, and dreams. Selected as the winner of the 2010 yale drama competition from more than 950 submissions, virginia grises play blu takes place in the present but looks back on the not too distant past through a series of prayers, rituals, and dreams. The play centers on a queer chicanoa family, whose members try. Virginia grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her play blu stays with you a long time after youve read it. Virginia grise received her mfa degree from the california institute of the arts and is a recipient of the 2010 princess grace award in theater directing. Contest judge david hare commented, virginia grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her play blu stays with you a long time after youve read it.
Grise received her mfa degree from the california institute of the arts and is a recipient of the 2010 princess grace award in theater directing. Virginia grise is a recipient of the whiting writers award, princess grace award in theatre directing and the yale drama series award. Virginia grises blu illustrates how masculinist protection oper ates in multiple registers as different patriarchal groupsgangs, the military, chicano nationalists. She addresses issues of class, raceethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Memory, history, and culture collide with the starlit rooftop dreams of a mythinspired character as soledad and her partner, hailstorm, redefine family on their own terms after the death of their eldest son in iraq. The panza monologues is an original solo performance piece based on womens stories about their panzastu sabesthat roll of belly we all try to hide. Contest judge david hare commented, virginia grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her playblustays with you a long time after youve read it.
She gave a postperformance presentation and visited classes, october. Joseph stalin was frequently called an eminence grise by leon trotsky whom he defeated in the succession struggles for soviet leadership following lenins death in 1924. In addition to the yale drama award, her play blu was a finalist for the kennedy center for the performing arts latinoa playwriting award and the alliance theatres kendeda award. Virginia grise is an actress and writer, known for the panza monologues 2009. Playwright virginia grise will be awarded the david c. Grise definition and meaning collins english dictionary. Virginia grise goodreads author, irma mayorga goodreads author 4. Interview with visiting chicana playwright virginia grise. Read about the possibilities of custom audio and visual components throughout your facility. She won the yale drama award for blu and in 2014 was awarded the prestigious whiting writers award. Edyka was born in baltimore maryland and grew up all over the united states. Playwright will attend opening night of vital, cultural.
Grise s most recognized work is blu yale university press, the winner of the 2010 yale drama series award and a finalist for the kennedy center for the performing arts latinoa playwrighting award. David hare ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Blu is vital theater a full house at the guadalupe theatre greeted a late night concert reading of blu directed by its playwright, virginia grise. The play centers on a queer chicanoa family, whose members try to imagine life without police and their helicopters. Virginia grises career is one of impressive distinction, making her visit to the univer. Her play blu was a recipient of the yale drama series award and a finalist for the kennedy. Sep 01, 2011 her play blu was the winner of the 2010 yale drama series award and was recently published by yale university press. She shared portions of her published and unpublished works, including blu and siempra norteada, followed by excerpts from a few of her new and upcoming projects. Posted in uncategorized tagged 50pp, blu, carnaval of new latinao work, interview, lgbt, panza monologues, texas, virginia grise, virginia grise bio, virginia grise blu, virginia grise blu script, virginia grise making myth, writing 10 comments. Free pdf blu yale drama series, by virginia grise, david hare it wont take even more time to obtain this blu yale drama series, by. Published according to the true originall copies first folio, london. In her blu, at company of angels, conflict erupts within a queer chicanao family as police helicopters circle their neighborhood.
Hers is a knowing, provocative, and lyrical work that is as gorgeous as it is. This is the burning question that inspired playwright, virginia grise, to write her cultural and emotional play, blu, being presented on the university of arizona campus this week by the ua studio series. An epic poem for the stage, blu traces the explosive aftereffects of prison and hunger, desire and war. Officially, he was the court astrologer to elizabeth i but exercised more power as an overall advisor to the queen. Pablo miguel martinez, author of brazos, carry me 3. Fall 2015 american and womens studies a note from the chair. She also recently collaborated with cara mia theater company in the production of yale drama award winning script blu by virginia grise. In particular, i examine how gender, race, sexuality, and class are deployed in continued. Reviews blu is technically expert grises choral effects are thrilling and unexpected. Feb 29, 2020 grise plural grises obsolete a step in a flight of stairs. Also, we will have virginia grise, theatre artist and winner of the yale drama prize for her.
Virginia grise, theatre artist and winner of the yale drama prize for her play blu, will speak about making a life as an artist and read excerpts of her published and unpublished works. The latinao literary landscape the american literature. All campus events expected to entertain 50 or more have been canceled. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged 50pp, blu, carnaval of new latinao work, interview, lgbt, panza monologues, texas, virginia grise, virginia grise bio, virginia grise blu, virginia grise blu script, virginia grise making myth, writing. Noting that 2010 was a banner year for women playwrights, he added, womens writing for the theatre is stronger and more eloquent than it has ever been. Told in a heightened poetic language of street talk, the play follows a queer chicanao family. Written, compiled, and collected by virginia grise and irma mayorga and fashioned into a tourdeforce solo performance, the panza monologues features the words of chicanas speaking with humor and candor. Your healing is killing me a performance manifesto by virginia grise. Memory, history, and culture collide with the starlit rooftop dreams of a mythi. I am an artist, a chinesemexican, a marxist, a dyke. Her play blu was the winner of the 2010 yale drama series award and was recently published by yale university press.