En Garde Arts Presents Uncommon Voices
Season 1
This new series from ALL ARTS, co-produced by En Garde Arts Artistic Director Anne Hamburger and four-time Emmy winning television producer Jesse Green, highlights new theatrical work by artists using their craft to explore the most important issues we are facing today, from climate change to immigration, homelessness to identity politics. Interviews with playwrights, directors and performers combined with excerpts of new theatrical work in its earliest stages of development, peels back the curtain on the birth of theatrical ideas.
Where to Watch En Garde Arts Presents Uncommon Voices • Season 1
8 Episodes
- Andre De Shields, Kevin R. Free & A Hill on which to DrownE3
Andre De Shields, Kevin R. Free & A Hill on which to DrownTony Award Winner André De Shields takes on the role of Ikoode in Kevin R. Free's newest work, "A Hill on Which to Drown." Inspired by the legendary plays of August Wilson, Free shows audiences the Century Cycle through the eyes of Ikoode, a gay Black man in his 90s, looking back as a witness to the events in his near-century on earth. - Miranda Rose Hall & A Play for the Living in a Time of ExtinctionE4
Miranda Rose Hall & A Play for the Living in a Time of ExtinctionMiranda Rose Hall beautifully crafts a theatrical work that poignantly grapples with living in a time of extinction. Hall's plays have been presented at Lincoln Center as part of their LTC3 programming. The play features a stressed out dramaturge who has to step in for one of her actors when she has a family emergency. When faced with the prospect of her own existence among a litany of unfolding and seemingly existential environmental disasters, the dramaturge has a meltdown and shares it with the audience. This play was presented at En Garde Arts's Uncommon Voices and was workshopped this summer at the New York Theatre Workshop's residency series. Her play is based on a book entitled The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. - Syndee Winters & LENA: A Moment with a LadyE5
Syndee Winters & LENA: A Moment with a LadyActress, singer and playwright Syndee Winters brings the legendary Lena Horne to life in this new theater work celebrating this Black American icon. Accompanied by a jazz quintet, Winters uses her powerful vocals to imagine Horne's story in her own words as an activist, leader and pioneer in entertainment, who became one of the first Black women to break the color line in Hollywood. - Annabelle Gurwitch & If You Lived with Me, You'd Be Home By NowE6
Annabelle Gurwitch & If You Lived with Me, You'd Be Home By NowWriter Annabelle Gurwitch exploring her new work, "If You Lived With Me, You'd Be Home By Now." This one-woman show uses comedy and prose to depict her true-life experience participating in a host home program for youth experiencing homelessness, presented in En Garde Arts' Uncommon Voices performances. - Em Weinstein & SOLDIERGIRLSE7
Em Weinstein & SOLDIERGIRLSHear conversations with writer and director Em Weinstein on their new work SOLIDERGIRLS about queer women in the army during WWII. A new 2-person musical written and directed by Em Weinstein, SOLDIERGIRLS uses real letters and a collage of found and original text to look at love, liberation and lesbianism in the US Army's Women's Army Corps in World War II. - Danny Pudi & RunningE8
Danny Pudi & Running"Where are you from? Like from, from?" Danny Pudi has spent his whole life never knowing how to answer that question. Raised by his Polish mother, Pudi has only ever been able to see the face of his Indian father, the man who left them, in the mirror. After running from his own reflection for decades, Pudi finds himself piecing together objects, memories and the puzzle of a father he never knew.