Nia Calloway. Photo by Sub/Urban Photography.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators – currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, William Burke, and Machel Ross – the selected playwrights receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, CPR is partnering for the third season to co-present this program, which unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Nia Calloway: Earth is Not One of Your Lil Friends
Earth is Not One of Your Lil Friends is a reclamation of body, space, and pleasure told from an eco-feminist point of view by way of poetry, music, soundscapes, and dance.
Nia Calloway (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and astrologer who traverses the worlds of theater, poetry, music, dance, and the healing arts. Through the combination of written word, sound experimentation, and explorative movement, she aims to create spaces of healing and introspection for her audience. Driven by the desire to relate the natural world and the cosmos to our bodies, Nia’s art serves to heal and reorient our collective stories around female bodies, QBIPOC bodies, and especially Black femme bodies.
Additional Fall 2023 Starr Reading Series programs:
Tues, December 12 at 7 P.M.
Michael Oluokun: Have You Ever Thought About…
Weds, December 13 at 7 P.M.
lily gonzales: I must belong somewhere
Five additional writers – Avi Amon, Aeon Andreas, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Utkarsh Rajawat, and Genevieve Simon – will share work as part of the Starr Reading Series in Spring 2024, also co-presented with The Bushwick Starr at CPR. More details to be announced.