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The honoree at this year’s 2026 Tisch Gala was Susan-Lori Parks, a playwright whose work is just as alive as her career.
Walking into the Gala, I felt the strange double perspective of being both inside and outside the moment. I was there as a senior at NYU Tisch — weeks away from graduating — but also as a filmmaker and writer watching how an institution honors the artists who have shaped its history.… read more.
Lucky Me! A few weeks back, I went to Manhattan’s Pan Asian Repertory Theatre to see Myka Cue’s brilliant performance in Chasing the Butterflies, a heart-wrenching one-woman show she wrote herself about the death of her father. Since my FF2 Team Mate Katusha Jin was one of the directors of Chasing the Butterflies, she was able to connect us, and I soon had the honor of sitting down with Myka for an extremely fruitful conversation about her philosophy around theatre, acting, and (of course) her journey writing the show—which, as it turns out, has been long.… read more.
In a recent interview on the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” singer-songwriter Chappell Roan said the words that sparked a mountain of discourse: “All my friends who have kids are in hell. I actually don’t know anyone who’s like, happy and has children at this age.”
Videos flooded social media.… read more.
On this day in 2015, The Danish Girl was released in theaters. A biographical romance about a trans woman who received one of the first gender-affirming surgeries ever, this film was created by the artistic and sensitive mind of Lucinda Coxon.
Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter, known for telling comedic contemporary stories as well as riveting historical tales.… read more.
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time to start making our lists of holiday films to watch and checking them twice. Six years ago today, The Man Who Invented Christmas was released in theaters. That makes today the perfect day to revisit this cozy Christmas film and the woman who invented it, Susan Coyne. … read more.
Lorraine Hansberry and I have quite a bit in common. We are both Black women from Chicago who use the power of the pen to convey our emotions regarding the state of the world and even our own lives. We are two individuals who feel deeply about changing the world around us and hold a sense of idealism in a world that does everything to crush it.… read more.