TDM: Anne Washburn
ArtLab has collaborated with Harvard’s Theater, Dance, and Media program (TDM) to host a creative development residency for Anne Washburn’s immersive theater installation, The Murder Room. In addition to a two-week on-site residency, a public lecture as part of the series Perspectives on Performance will be held at ArtLab, featuring Anne Washburn in dialogue with David Levine, Interim Chair of TDM.
The Murder Room is a crowdsourced collection of brainstorms, hopes, diagnostics, history and dreaming about the current vexing and exhilarating state of American Theater, expressed in the classic TV show form of the evidence board. (There will be red string!) Each time The Murder Room is mounted, it grows through the contributions of community members in each locale, creating an evolving portrait of Theater in America.
While at ArtLab, Anne Washburn plans to engage the local theater communities and Theater, Dance, and Media students, including the courses Collective Protocols as Public Space taught by Tania Bruguera, and Playwriting: Ritual Practice and Curious Worlds taught by Philip Howze.
Anne Washburn’s plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, and transadaptations of Euripides’ Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been produced nationally and internationally and has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Fogler, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for an artist in mid-career, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.