Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings

CITD is partnering with John Freedman and Maksym Kurochkin of the THEATRE OF PLAYWRIGHTS in Kyiv, Ukraine, to commission plays that are premiering around the world as fundraising events for Ukraine.

LINKAGES is a four-year project intended to build long-term relationships between a new generation of theatre leaders in the US and their peers in Eastern Europe – including artistic directors, directors, actors, dramaturges, and designers.  The project builds on CITD's four decades of creating bridges between theatre-makers in the US and Eastern Europe. In 2021, LINKAGES is an umbrella project with a two-pronged focus on Poland and Hungary. While our approaches' in each country are unique, each project shares two key imperatives:
 

• to start and nurture peer to peer conversations and relationships that will continue for decades among mid-career artists and leaders
   

• to chronicle, via transcriptions, what a diversity of theatre-makers and thinkers are dealing with in these turbulent times, both in archival holdings and as resources for writers – to tell the stories as we live them

With the realities of the global pandemic, LINKAGES is launching as a Zoom-based project—building new relationships in preparation for the time when travel is possible again. 

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With CITD's encouragement and support, The Imaginists are commissioning acclaimed Hungarian theater director Árpád Schilling to create The Gun, a new work that will bring his outsider’s eye to the role that guns and gun violence play in American society.

StereoAKT's Addressless with
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

CITD is invested in the work of our longtime Hungarian partner Martin Boross and his company, StereoAKT. We have supported two US productions of his groundbreaking piece, Promenade, and look forward to Addressless, which tackles the epidemic of homelessness.