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We are excited to announce Alex Lin as Working Theater’s Inaugural Playwright-in-Residence for our milestone 40th season!
Alex is an extraordinary talent whose work sheds light on the stories of working people with intelligence, compassion, and a fierce dedication to justice. As part of her residency, Alex will develope a new play about the American steel industry, giving voice to the challenges and triumphs of the labor force that shaped our nation.
In conjunction with this residency, Working Theater is thrilled to join The Action Lab as an Anchor Partner. In doing so, we are able to offer Alex more resources towards her development while reaching new audiences to ignite conversations and spark change in our communities.
Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. Plays developed at Roundabout, Second Stage, NYTW, MTC, the O’Neill, Rattlestick, Ojai, South Coast Rep, New Harmony, Two River, Playwrights Realm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Central Square Theatre, Amphibian Stage, and Theater Mu. Guest lectures at CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. As an actor, she has performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Victory, Fault Line, HVSF, Ma-Yi, Jewish Plays Project, Amphibian Stage, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Ojai, and Commonwealth Shakespeare. Stavis Award winner, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, and Weissberger Award nominee. Juilliard.
We are delighted to partner with the Working Theater to jointly support the inspiring playwright, Alex Lin. In addition to being a Playwright-in-Residence at Working theater, Alex will be an Artist in Action Fellow at The Action Lab where she will share her keen exploration of the American Steel Industry with communities fighting for social justice. The Artists in Action Fellowship aims to further cultivate the relationship between art and social justice by connecting artists to organizers and organizers to artists. We want artists like Alex to play a more tangible role in our push toward liberation as well as provide organizers with new creative tools for their arsenal. We know Alex will help spark the kind of creativity and magnetism we need to build more effective movements for meaningful social change and look forward to helping build the audiences for her powerful work.
The Action Lab is a strategy center for social movements that sparks political and personal liberation. We provide rigorous and joyful spaces for organizers, leaders and artists to learn, to create and to strengthen our capacity to win. We strive to build a powerful culture that lifts us out of the immediate and enables us to envision and realize a just future. https://www.actionlabny.org/