Award-winning artist, playwright and librettist Catherine Filloux (@cfillouxwriter) has been writing about human rights and social justice for decades. Her work deals with activism, environmentalism, feminism and more.
Full-length drama Mary & Myra follows lawyer Myra Bradwell as she visits her friend Mary Todd Lincoln in an insane asylum in the summer of 1875. As they grapple with freedom, womanhood and the past, Myra’s motives and Mary’s sanity are both up for debate. Dive in at https://t.co/xiDlDGTeZM. 🤝
My dear friend Theary Seng human rights defender starts her fourth year in prison. We call for her immediate release. Learn more https://t.co/NJKs1Bsh60, #FreeTheary, #Free Them All
This fear for children about ICE, deportation and injustice started so many years ago, speak truth to power in Minneapolis and in the US.
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Catherine (Filloux) will speak about theater & human rights for Annie Rappeport’s course The Quest to End Genocide Through Education; From Never Forget to Never Again on January 13th at College of Education & International Education Policy program, Univ of Maryland, College Park
Trip of a Lifetime
a play by Catherine Filloux at Theater X (Kai), Tokyo, Japan
translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuneda
directed by Sonoko Kawahara
performed by Kaori Yamazoe and Mika Ishimura (in this version, two actors play the second lady)
"Trip of a Lifetime," my new play about the Second Lady, performed in Tokyo, Japan, translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuneda, directed by Sonoko Kawahara
“The Breach” about Hurricane Katrina directed by Ryan Rilette in New Orleans, and David Esbjornson at Seattle Rep By Playwrights Catherine Filloux, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Joe Sutton
https://t.co/ZE29eikY1b
As the author of LEMKIN’S HOUSE, about the man who gave the name to "genocide", I've dedicated much of my playwriting and libretti work to exploring these atrocities, and have long voiced my fears of genocide regarding human rights violations in Gaza.
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