Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is: ADDAE MOON – GUEST SPEAKER Moon is an Atlanta based playwright, dramaturg, director, and cultural worker. He is the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit and the cofounder of the play development and performance collective Hush Harbor Lab. Moon has served as a resident dramaturg with Working Title Playwright’s Ethel Woolson Lab. He was the recipient of the 2015 International Ibsen Award for his dramaturgical work on the project Master Comic and the 2014 John Lipsky Award from the International Museum Theatre Alliance (IMTAL) for his immersive play Four Days of Fury: Atlanta 1906. Moon was also a member of Alliance Theatre’s 2015-16 Reiser Artists’ Lab as cowriter on the immersive project Third Council of Lyons with Found Stages. As the former literary manager at Horizon Theatre Company, he served as the development dramaturg on the early projects of many nationally renowned playwrights including Marcus Gardley, Lauren Gunderson, Tanya Barfield, and Janece Shaffer. His recent immersive co-collaborations include Frankenstein’s Ball (2019/2020), Frankenstein’s Funeral (2019) and Cassie’s Ballad (2022) with Found Stages. Moon received his B.A. in theatre arts from Clark Atlanta University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Professional Playwright’s Program at Ohio University. He is also a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA,) Dramatist Guild, and The Fence Network. Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Addae Moon

Center In The Square

Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. Normally, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the festival, there will be a panel discussion when our guest respondents will introduce themselves, talk briefly about their own background, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students, faculty, and some established theatre professionals. Friday, July 19 8 pm; The Greenhouse by J. Harvey Stone Saturday, July 20 11 am; Astroturf by Kolin Lawler 2 pm; Lil’ Troopers by Richie Cannaday 4 pm; The Caregiver by Stephanie Goldman 8 pm; The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the [GUILTY] by Ami Trowell Sunday, July 21 11 am; Hamlet’s Ghost by Emily Fleischhuer 2 pm; Freida by ArLynn Parker 4 pm; Nuptial Mass by Ben Abbott 8 pm; Festival Guest Respondent Panel Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email Gwyneth Strope at stropegm1@hollins.edu.

2024 Playwrights Festival

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is: BONNIE METZGAR – GUEST SPEAKER Metzgar is a playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and core visiting faculty with The Playwright’s Lab at Hollins. In January 2020, her play You Lost Me had its world premiere at Denver Center Theater and was the recipient of an Edgerton New Play Award. Recently, she served as staff writer for Genius: Aretha, a limited television series with showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks. A fighter for artists from marginalized communities, Metzgar is passionate about making systemic change in the nonprofit theatre, and served as artistic director of About Face Theatre, one of the largest theatres in the U.S. dedicated to producing queer artists and advancing the cultural dialogue on sexuality and gender identity. Previously, Metzgar served as associate producer at the Public Theater where she founded Joe’s Pub. Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage.

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Bonnie Metzgar

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is: RUTH MARGRAFF – FACULTY, GUEST SPEAKER, AND FESTIVAL RESPONDENT Margraff has been called a leader in the American avant-garde for her “audaciously original” (Moscow Times) use of language that provides “layer after layer of richly textured emotion…and imminent danger” (Dallas Morning News). Critically acclaimed for writing martial arts operas Deadly She-Wolf… and a Voice of the Dragon trilogy with the late composer Fred Ho for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, LaMama, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and a commercially successful tour with Columbia Arts Management, Inc., to 33 cities in 2003 with support from ICM Artists and the World Music Institute. Margraff’s “Night Wind from Afghanistan” for the play Seven, began touring the world in 2008 introduced by designer Diane von Furstenberg, and in 2010 by Hillary Clinton with Meryl Streep at the Broadway Hudson Theater. Seven has been translated into more than 20 languages and performed in 32 countries. Margraff has received awards from Rockefeller, McKnight, Jerome, NEA, TCG, TMUNY, NYSCA, IAC, Fulbright foundations, and is also published by Innova Records, Dramatists Play Service, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Performing Arts Journal, Playscripts, Inc., Backstage Books, Autonomedia, New Village Press, NoPassport Press, and Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield. She is a member of Theater Without Borders, League of Professional Theater Women, Red Tape Theater, a New Dramatist and Playwrights’ Center alumna, a Chicago Dramatist playwright emeritus, and professor of playwriting/writing as art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, represented by the Samara Harris Literary Agency (NYC). Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage.

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Ruth Margraff

Since 2006, Hollins University’s Playwright’s Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre have partnered to bring this popular event to Roanoke. Six playwrights are randomly paired with six directors, who are then draw from a hat one of six casts made up of six actors. Then they draw random prompts to find out what the genre, theme, and location will be. The writers write all night, share their work with the director over breakfast and make revisions, then they share the plays with the actors at 11 am over lunch, and rehearse from noon to 5 pm, when they do a cue to cue, set levels, and open the doors for the audience at 7:30 pm, Saturday night, so that we can share what we’ve done with all of you! This year, as last year, we’ll be doing this jointly produced event of the Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Partnership on the main stage of the Hollins University Theatre. Join us, won’t you? Always FREE and open to the public! No tickets or reservations necessary.

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Overnight Sensations

Hollins University

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is: NICHOLAS PIPER: GUEST SPEAKER Piper is the associate artistic director of Barter Theatre in charge of new play development as well as a director and founding member of Barter’s Resident Acting Company. As the director of Barter’s Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights, he has helped develop dozens of new Appalachian plays that have gone on to full production at Barter as well as theatres across the country. He was recently awarded the AAME award for outstanding contribution to the arts in the region. Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Nicholas Piper

M.F.A. Dance Performance III features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current M.F.A. dance candidates in alternative-site locations on and around the Hollins campus. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research, and making. Various Sites – Hollins Campus Start Time to be listed at later date: https://www.hollins.edu/programs/dance-m-f-a/.

M.F.A. Dance Performance III / Mobile Tour

Detroit native, Edgar L. Page comes from legacies celebrating the African Diaspora and Black Modern Dance traditions. He graduated from Cass Technical High School, furthering his studies at the Alvin Ailey School, the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and others before earning a B.A. in dance from Western Michigan University as a Wade H. McCree, Jr. Incentive Scholar and a Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Scholar. Upon graduation, he spent a season with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Second Company before joining the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (CPRD). During his time with CPRD, he toured domestically and internationally as a principal dancer and served as choreographer, dramaturg, Trainin’ Group director, dance lecturer, and director of the CPRD Academy. Page was featured in the 2021 YouTube Originals Black History Month program, Black Renaissance: the Art and Soul of Our Stories, and his accolades include: the 2021 Denver Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture for Innovation; 2020-22 Redline Contemporary Art Center artist-in-residence; 2020 S*PARK artist-in-residence; 2020 Dance/USA Institute for leadership training mentee; City of Denver cultural partner; 2018 Creativity Connects Fellow; Next Stage NOW artist; 2018 Presenting Denver Dance Festival’s Audience Favorite Award; and the 2019 Readers’ Choice for Best Artist in the Top of the Town Awards presented by 5280 Magazine. Page is a 2023 Alex Dube Scholar who serves as assistant professorship of dance at Grand Valley State University, and gains nourishment as a cofacilitator with the Intercultural Leadership Institute and a National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron Fellow in the Creative Administrative Research Program

Artist Talk III: Edgar Page

Dana Science Building

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is: CHERYL GRAEFF – FACULTY, GUEST SPEAKER, AND FESTIVAL RESPONDENT Graeff is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA has toured throughout the UK and performed at acclaimed theatres including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, Kansas City Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, and The Kennedy Center. Graeff, a three-time Irene Ryan Regional winner, received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa where she began teaching actors and continues working with talent of all ages and abilities both privately and at schools including Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Washington State University, Vagabond School of the Arts, Governors State University, Theater of Western Springs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Chicago Public Schools. Graeff is committed to new play development and has been in premier productions including Appropriate by Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam, The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter, and I Put the Fear of Mexico in ’em by Matthew Paul Olmos. Producing work includes the international award-winning TV pilot, The Resentful Angel, as the principal role which now streams on Amazon Prime, internationally recognized web series, It’s You, which she wrote and stars in streaming on Twisted Mirror TV, and featured podcast on SiriusXM Radio: Friends I’m No Longer Friends With. Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Cheryl Graeff

Unified Local Auditions will be held this year at Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage on June 22 from 12 to 5 pm and June 23 from 1 to 5 pm. You MUST reserve an audition slot in advance. All Hollins Playwrights Festival casting will be done from these auditions, so in order to be part of that casting pool, you MUST audition. Representatives from local theatres have also been invited to attend for their own casting purposes or to widen their pool of actors. This year, we have representatives from Virginia Children’s Theatre, Exit Pursued by a Bear, and Attic Productions. In the past, we’ve also had representatives from Mill Mountain Theatre, Off The Rails, and Showtimers! Contact Gwyneth Strope (stropegm1@hollins.edu) if you’re interested in representing an organization. If you would like to audition, prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue (from 1950 to now) that is either comedic or dramatic. Though preferred, you do not have to be memorized. Email us to request a five- minute slot. You may request a time, but in order to have the audition run as efficiently as possible, we will also be assigning times based on availability. Send your request for an audition slot to Gwyneth Strope (stropegm1@hollins.edu). Please put UNIFIED AUDITIONS in the subject line. Unless specifically indicated that you would prefer not to be, all auditioners will be listed on the Roanoke Actors and Directors Facebook Page to help facilitate casting of local actors by area theatres throughout the year. Everyone who auditions will also be photographed on the day of the audition by our archive photographer, so that we have both your photograph and a record of what you looked like on the day of the audition. All requests for audition slots must be received no later than June 12! If you have any other questions or don’t have email and would still like to audition, please call Gwyneth Strope, the Hollins Theatre producing manager at 540-362-6313. Actors who audition will be entered into our database and may be contacted to be readers or performers in all of our summer events, including lab readings and Overnight Sensations.

Unified Auditions 2024

M.F.A. Dance Performance II features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current M.F.A. dance candidates. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research, and making.

M.F.A. Dance Performance II

No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers, performers, and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations), short (five minutes or less), and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you’re interested in trying in front of a live audience–plays, monologues, songs, dance, poetry, mime, juggling, comedy, tragedy, Improvisation, dada, magic–we’ve even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm, doors open at 10:30 pm, and the show starts at 11 pm, running on average an hour and a half.

No Shame Theatre

Daniel Rodriguez was born in New York, NY. He began his dance training at the non-for-profit National Dance Institute. Through the National Dance Institute, he was given a scholarship to begin his formal ballet training at Ballet Academy East. He finished his ballet training at the Manhattan Youth Ballet and LaGuardia High School, the latter of which awarded him the Jacques D’Amboise award for Exceptional Male Dancer upon graduation. He began his professional career at The North Carolina Dance Theater (now Charlotte Ballet) and has since danced for Sarasota Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, and the Nashville Ballet. He has performed a diverse range of repertory including works choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, Jiri Kylian, Justin Peck, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Jermaine Spivey, and Paul Vasterling.

Artist Talk II: Daniel Rodriguez

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Laura Halm Hamilton is a dance artist from Baltimore, MD. A 2002 graduate of the Juilliard School, she is well versed in Eurocentric forms of concert dance that span a range of classical, modern, and contemporary techniques. As a company member with Hubbard Street 2, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and the Ballett des Saarländischen Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, Germany, she has performed in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Over the course of her eclectic performing career, she has been honored to perform masterworks by choreographers Michel Fokine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, José Limón, Paul Taylor, Alonzo King, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Johan Inger, Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Stijn Celis, Sharon Eyal, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Marguerite Donlon, Nanine Linning, Ayman Harper, Doug Varone, Lou Conte, Martin Chaix, Alejandro Cerrudo, and Reginald Yates, among many others. For the 2017-18 season, she was the choreography assistant and rehearsal director for Dance Company Nanine Linning in Heidelberg, Germany, where she also performed as a guest soloist in Linning’s DUSK. From 2018 until 2022, she returned to her alma mater to serve as the dance department head at the Baltimore School for the Arts, a public performing arts high school. She is currently teaching contemporary ballet as an adjunct lecturer at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. Laura embarked on her most enriching creative collaboration when she gave birth in November 2022.

Artist Talk I: Laura Halm Hamilton

DRAFTWORKS is a dance department and M.F.A. dance event inaugurated during fall 2005 and spring 2006. The platform was designed to provide a space for intimate, nontraditional, radical, often-times explicit performance work to be shared with the dance department community and guests. DRAFTWORKS: A Studio Salon was designed to challenge makers and witnesses to consider options for making and presenting work that do not have to subscribe to traditional/conventional forms, genre categorizations, and notions of final dances (dance show). M.F.A. Dance Year Residency graduate students, Paris NGai Gray, Sarah Lunceford, and Katy Womack will share their most recent and vibrant work-in-progress in this informal studio setting. BOT Studio I BOT Studio II Informal Showing #1, 7 pm Informal Showing #2, 8:45 pm Free admission 

DRAFTWORKS: A Studio Salon

M.F.A. Dance Performance I Free admission M.F.A. Dance Performance I features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current M.F.A. dance candidates. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research, and making.

M.F.A. Dance Performance 1

Corpus Mirabilis: The Life and Practices of St. Catherine of Siena and the Recentering of Female Agency and Play in Performance as Resistance. Thesis Performance and Installation by M.F.A. Dance Graduate Student Melissa Miller Eleanor D. Wilson Museum – Hollins Campus Free Admission Thursday, June 13, 2024 – Live Performance 7:30 pm Friday, June 14 – June 28, 2024 – Exhibition Tuesday – Sunday, 12- 5 pm Thursday – 12-8 pm Corpus Mirabilis: The Life and Practices of St. Catherine of Siena and the Recentering of Female Agency and Play in Performance as Resistance centers around the life and death of Catherine Benincasa: a 14th-century Italian Tertiary Dominican, mystic, influential writer and leader, and eventual saint, in the European Catholic Church. Saint Catherine of Siena’s faith practice included a dedication to mortification of the flesh, practitioners of which believed they should subdue desires, which are at war with their soul, by means of self-inflicted suffering. She began her practice of self-harm at the age of eight, culminating in her death via self-imposed starvation at 33. Not considered suicide by the church leaders of the time, her death was recorded instead as succumbing to pious fasting and called, posthumously, anorexia “mirabilis,” Latin for “wonderful.” Looking at her life and death will be my point of entry for discussing animosity toward the female body in, but not restricted to, high-control Western religious environments. Exploring how these attitudes toward women have been internalized and propagated has urgency for everybody, female or otherwise.

M.F.A. Dance @ the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum

2024 Spring Dance Performance

Senior Dance Thesis Artist Talks

Hollins Library

Our end-of-semester choir concert features a picnic-like atmosphere as our combined choirs perform to their audience seated in comfort on the beautiful Hollins Front Quad. Join us for ice cream!

Choir Quad Concert

Join us to support three of our advanced students—Sophia Ciatti, Mackenzie Alderson, and Autumn Wille—as they show off their excellent progress in performance studies.

Music Students Showcase

Student Thesis Theatre Production: “Hollins Living History Project”

DRAFTWORKS: a salon showing

Year Residency graduate students Paris Gray, Sarah Lunceford, and Katy Womack present an ARTIST TALK about their new dance and performance work. Botetourt Reading Room

Graduate DRAFTWORKS Artist Talk

Springtime Strings

Valley Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert

· What: Beautiful Noise is a story about two Black women on a journey of self-reclamation. As a piece that reflects the experiences of Black women in America, particularly through the lenses of the patriarchy, racism, and misogyny. We hope that you as our audience can take away your truth and reclaim your power.

Student Thesis Theatre Production: “Beautiful Noise”

Visiting guest artist and teacher Todd Rhoades will be in conversation with Dance Department Chair Jeffery Bullock about the current state of dance and contemporary culture. Thursday, March 14, 6 – 7 pm, Botetourt Reading Room Thursday, April 11, 6 – 7 pm, Botetourt Reading Room

Conversations: Visiting Dance Artist Series with Todd Rhoades

The Hollins combined choirs are joined by the Virginia Glee Club and the Valley Chamber Orchestra to present Haydn’s Te Deum. A fantastic opportunity to hear an entire community of musicians working together—you don’t want to miss it!

Virginia Glee Club and Hollins Choir Concert

Student Thesis Staged Reading: “CORPS"

Student Thesis Staged Reading: “Our Family in the Stars”

Student Thesis Theatre Production: “Constellations"

Praised for her “fantastic virtuosity, energy, and power, combined with deepest comprehension into authors’ idea,” Dinara Klinton is an acclaimed recording artist, performer, and teacher.  Her music education started at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine, and she now tours internationally while serving as professor of piano in the UK Royal College of Music and the Yehudi Mehunin School. Hollins is hosting her as our 2024 Galbraith Guest Artist, and she will be performing on Sunday, February 18, at 3 pm in the Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley. Join us to see this incredible artist!

Dinara Klinton in Concert

Winter Festival of New Works: “Chrysalis"

Winter Festival of New Works: “Randi & Roxanne"

Winter Choir Concert

Year Residency graduate students, Paris Gray, Sarah Lunceford, and Katy Womack, present Artist Talk conversations about their new dance and performance work featured in the 2023 Fall Dance Performance at Hollins.

Graduate Fall Dance Artist Talks

Evening of dance performances featuring creative work by students, faculty, and guest artists. 8 pm each evening

Fall Dance Performance

Valley Chamber Orchestra provides amateur, professional, and student musicians of Southwest Virginia the opportunity to rehearse and perform orchestral music on a recreational basis for the pure enjoyment of music.

Valley Chamber Orchestra Concert

Theatre Production: “First-Year Reading-Celebrate Our New Students”

What: This magical musical stage version of Margaret Wise Brown’s bedtime classic takes us into the imagination of the child who quite simply is not interested in falling asleep! Imbued with theatre magic, the Great Green Room comes to life before our eyes – the kittens, the mittens, the red balloon, and the cow jumping over the moon, tucked in with a few surprises. Although the book was written for the preschool set, ages three to 103 will be moonstruck by this joyous musical theatre treat.

Theatre Production: “Goodnight Moon-The Magical Musical”

New location: Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley These readings, which are early drafts of student-written plays, are presented as part of the Playwright’s Lab course. The reading is followed by a two-tier feedback session. The first tier is based on the Liz Lerman Critical Response, with the playwright taking notes on audience reactions to things that worked, questions they feel are still unanswered, things that didn’t work as well as the strengths we identified earlier, and questions that the playwright might have. The second tier of feedback is closed, and only students registered for the course and faculty attend. This session is less structured, and playwrights can engage with commenters directly. In this way, students are exposed to both kinds of feedback so that they have a nurturing environment as well as preparation for the more raw responses one could encounter in a review or blog comments.

Wednesday Night Lab Readings

Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. Normally, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the festival, there will be a panel discussion when our guest respondents will introduce themselves, talk briefly about their own background, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students, faculty, and some established theatre professionals.

Hollins Playwrights Festival of New Works

These readings, which are early drafts of student-written plays, are presented as part of the Playwright’s Lab course. The reading is followed by a two-tier feedback session. The first tier is based on the Liz Lerman Critical Response, with the playwright taking notes on audience reactions to things that worked, questions they feel are still unanswered, things that didn’t work as well as the strengths we identified earlier, and questions that the playwright might have. The second tier of feedback is closed, and only students registered for the course and faculty attend. This session is less structured, and playwrights can engage with commenters directly. In this way, students are exposed to both kinds of feedback so that they have a nurturing environment as well as preparation for the more raw responses one could encounter in a review or blog comments.

M.F.A. Dance Performance IV features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current M.F.A. dance candidates in alternative-site locations on and around the Hollins campus. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance

M.F.A. Dance Performance IV: Mobile Tour

Bobby Wesner is the artistic/executive/founding director of Neos Dance Theatre (NDT), a choreographer, dancer, artist, and educator. He has served on faculty at Oberlin College, Belhaven University, and The University of Akron. He was awarded three ‘Knight Art Challenge’ awards, Ohio Arts Council project support, a Dance/U.S.A. scholarship, and a fellowship from Hollins. Wesner has danced with Ballet Arizona, Momix, Verb Ballets, and NDT performing repertoire by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Kurt Jooss, Paul Taylor, José Limón, Alejandro Cerrudo, Penny Saunders, Stephanie Martinez, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Neta Pulvermacher, and more in Europe, North America, and South America. He founded the Lose Your Marbles Fringe Festival featuring over 25 local, regional, and national performing groups in Akron, Ohio. Wesner established cultural and educational programming in five different Ohio communities each having representation on NDT’s Board of Directors. Wesner managed, choreographed, and performed with NDT in 10 different U.S. States. He is the father of four beautiful children, grandfather of two, and currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi. Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 8 p.m. Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Hollins University

Jul 22, 2024

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Addae Moon

19 - 21 Jul, 2024

2024 Playwrights Festival

Hollins University