Boal-ing Online: Digital Divergences of Forum Theatre

Real Talk. This year has been hard. I find great comfort in planning for plans and back-up plans but no amount of planning could have prepared me for this pandemic (plan-demic?). I had 'planned' to start my graduate studies at New York University in Drama Therapy in Fall 2020. I had been reading up on...

Individuating Ingredients : A Sunday with Chocolate Mousse

So I just completed a 10-day interactive course by The Color of Grey Cells– a centre for Creative Arts Psychotherapy in New Delhi, India. This module was for practitioners to explore and develop the self in mental health through theory and practice. Usually all my blogs have been about Theatre of the Oppressed and applied...

Boal-ing Online: Negotiating Individual and Community

It is 1 am India standard time.  I am sweating, sitting in my bedroom in Delhi surrounded with pages of notes, reminding me of which buttons to press on my screen and when to open the google doc tabs of script pages. Just a few minutes ago I had facilitated a Forum Theatre session with...

Boal-ing with Corporates: Unpacking Resistance

Never would I have thought that I would be facilitating an auditorium of over 100 professionals from the banking industry . There I was - wearing a headset, a buttoned down dress shirt which was a bit too thick to be tucked into my trousers and an even thicker pair of black trousers - which...

Boal-ing in Delhi: Facilitating in the HERE and NOW

Coming home has been hard. It has been a lot of listening, un-learning, asking questions, not getting the answers I had hoped for, trying out my exercises, allowing them to wander into new and exciting directions, and breathing (despite the pollution). Phew. Moving home to Delhi and throwing myself into multiple artistic landscapes and workshop...

Boal-ing with Jokers at TONYC: Understanding ACCESS

The U.S. government has spoken. My visa is nearing its end and so my bags are packed and apartment cleaned. I am saying farewell to the U.S and all my workshop participants and teachers here who engaged me, challenged me, and opened me up to a world of applied theatre that I never knew existed....

Boal-ing with Julian Boal: Introduction to Forum Theater

It's been years since I participated in a Boal workshop. I do enjoy facilitating but I also miss the freedom of moving around a classroom and having someone else take charge of curriculum. When Jill told me about the Pedagogy of Theater of the Oppressed conference, I knew I had to go. Lately I have...

Boal-ing with D.C Theater Professionals!

Alexander and I are back as a teaching artist duo and this time to work with actors and teachers from the D.C-Maryland-Virginia area 🙂 Alexander is now an actor in D.C and it was great to have his input as we brainstormed what Boal exercises would be most helpful for this workshop. Alexander mentioned to...

Boal-ing at Walnut Hill School for the Arts!

My Boal worlds are colliding! In December, Noah Silverman, one of my Boal company members from the performance at the Capitol in DC reached out to me. He was looking for a teacher to facilitate a three day Theater of the Oppressed workshop at his performing arts high school, Walnut Hill School for the Arts. ...

Creating Curriculum: The Voices of Now Technique

Working as a Community Engagement Fellow with Arena Stage's Education Department, I have put aside my own desire to teach Boal. Instead I have had the incredible opportunity to learn a style of devised theater developed by Ashley Forman, the director of Education at Arena Stage, called Voices of Now. Voices of Now is autobiographical...