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Madeline Wall
photo by Paran Kashani.
Give to the Max Day
The Birth Play Project is participating in our very first GTMD on November 21st, and early giving has begun!
DRY LAND
Produced and directed the Minnesota premiere of Ruby Rae Spiegel's play at the University of Minnesota June 14th-17th, 2018. Photo by Noelle Kirscht. See link below for more about the production.
photo by Paran Kashani.
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Greetings! Thanks for being here.
I am a writer and theatre creature based in Minneapolis, MN. I write and direct plays, and I also act and choreograph for the stage. My artistic research is centered on reproductive stories, and I am the brainmother / Company Director of The Birth Play Project.
This article, published in the Minnesota Women's Press, is a great "I Am" Song for the work that I do. It's titled Placing Birth in Public Memory.
I also love staging queerness-as-transcendence, love Shakespeare, and have recently become comfortable calling myself a songwriter / lyricist. I am passionate about somatic experience, fair process, and the potential of incorporating social science research into artistic leadership and company-building practices.
Words I appreciate that have been used to describe my work:
Precision. Muscular. Enchanting, wickedly smart. Heart-first, siren-voiced, joy-giver, avenging angel. A force, difficult to define and quantify. The magic was there.
RECENT NEWS: The Birth Play Project recently received fiscal sponsorship through Springboard for the Arts, meaning we can now apply for grants and receive tax-deductible donations as a company. We will be participating our very first Give to the Max Day on November 21st: see our fundraising page here.
The Birth Play Project's adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure made its Minneapolis debut in September and October. From Jill Schafer of Cherry and Spoon: "I'm pretty sure Shakespeare never wrote this eloquently about childbirth." Read her full review here.
To connect with me as a human, email madelinejwall97@gmail.com! To inquire specifically about the work of The Birth Play Project, email birthplayproject@gmail.com.
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