development history & acknowledgements
development history
Reading, Telling Humans New Play Reading Festival, 2025
Reading, Bramble Arts Loft, Chicago, 2024
Reading, Constellations Playhouse, Bloomington, IN, 2023
Workshop, Zoom, Audrey Sheffield, Director (Stranger Things, London), 2022
Reading, Pony Boy Speakeasy Theatre, 2022
Workshop, Zoom, Chicago Team, 2022
Reading, Chicago Dramatists Master Class, 2021
Workshop, Telling Humans Playwright Studio, 2021
Reading, Chicago Dramatists Master Class, 2020
acknowledgements
Throughout the development of this play, the following individuals and organizations have played important roles in getting it right:
Humaira Ghilzai, Afghan Cultural Consultant (The Kite Runner, Broadway)
Emilio Williams, Playwright, Essayist, Educator, Chicago/Paris (!Bernarda!, Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre, Chicago)
Will Dunne, Instructor, Scene Work, Chicago Dramatist
Kate Hendrickson, Director, Trap Door Theatre
Carson Grace Becker, Dramaturgy
Audrey Sheffield, Director, (Stranger Things, London)
Telling Humans Playwright Studio
Goddard College, Vermont
The U. S. State Department
Thought as a System (December 2, 1994), by David Bohm