The American citizens of these battered island territories surely have much to teach those of us who live in the contiguous United States about adaptive survival strategies, as does my grandmother Mabel, and the central American migrant caravans pushed in part by climate collapse to our southern border. She sees disproportionate responses to natural disasters as one example of environmental injustice. “After Hurricane Harvey, Trump went to Texas and [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] gave over $100 million. Not factoring in homeowner buyouts, fortifying storm water systems, and other ways to mitigate flood risk, the astounding cost of building sea walls to protect US coastal cities will reach $400 billion by 2040, according to a recent study by the Center for Climate Integrity.5 What’s the moral capital of all that money, and where do we draw the line? Bay St. Louis was her home. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The John and Robyn Horn Foundation, The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the New York Community Trust COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund, The Shubert Foundation, the Tournesol Project, and our Board of Directors, PUBLIC FUNDS ARE PROVIDED BY There’s no longer any scientific doubt that our greenhouse gas emissions are warming the globe and melting the ice caps, raising the level of the sea and endangering developed coastlines all over the world. Maya Angelou speaks with British television host Mavis Nicholson in 1987 about her writing, personal life and growing into courage; James Baldwin speaks with Mavis that same year, during London rehearsals for his play “The Amen Corner”, about the invention of race and the breakdown of the social contract. Become a Member to stream Part 1 of Lessons in Survival through June 30, 2021. Arthur Finer in the CBS hit “God Friended Me.” Morton is widely known for his title role in John Sayle’s film, “The Brother From Another Planet” and as the ill-fated scientist Miles Dyson in “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” Among his many other film credits, Morton was last seen as Cyborg’s dad, Dr. Silas Stone, in “Batman vs. Superman” and “Justice League.” Morton debuted on Broadway in HAIR, and was a Tony nominee and Theatre World Award winner for his portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in RAISIN. Your chances of survival are stronger if there’s a pathway to carry you. Only a reminder. Most notably, she played Tamyra in the New York premiere of Tracy Letts' Man from Nebraska at Second Stage Theater, directed by Tony Winner and MacArthur Genius Award recipient, David Cromer. On screen he has appeared in "The Good Wife," "The Big C," "Public Morals," "Manifest," "The Get Down," "The Accidental Wolf," "Blue Bloods," "The Quad," and four seasons of FX’s "The Americans" as Agent Dennis Aderholt. by nytimespost. Storm after storm, Americans applied for aid and rebuilt. Only a reminder. Guru books - the bible. And that’s because the last time carbon dioxide levels were this extreme, the world’s oceans were some one hundred feet higher than they are now. Imagine this: by the end of the century, 80 million Americans could be forced to flee the coasts, redefining whom we consider refugees. Off-Broadway: Lessons In Survival (Vineyard Theatre,) Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater Company), Fire in Dreamland (The Public), Tin Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public, Delacorte), Head of Passes (The Public), The Flick (Barrow Street Theatre), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), The Fortress of Solitude (The Public), Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Netflix Plays (Ars Nova), 10 Things to Do Before I Die (Second Stage) Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Steppenwolf Theatre, Yale Rep, The Old Globe. While resilience in Manhattan post-Sandy might look like the massive $20 billion hurricane barrier proposed by the US Army Corps of Engineers to protect New York Harbor with surge gates similar to ones in the Netherlands, resilience can suggest something altogether different in lower-income communities of color. Learn more about outdoor and wilderness survival skills in this lesson. International: The Winter’s Tale, Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company). Instead, local elected officials must successfully navigate the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of such programs and also decide which homeowners can participate. That you're just not good enough. Only a reminder. At the end of the chapter highlighting Tubman, she writes that of all the policies being discussed, organized retreat “is the only one that calls for everyone living on the lowest-lying land along the water’s edge, those who can afford to lift their homes and those who cannot, to participate.” Well, yes, but only if managed more humanely than resettlement has ever been managed in the past. degrees in Mathematics and Drama from Morehouse College, and an M.F.A. She recurs as Dr. Camilla Candelario on NBC's “New Amsterdam”, and as Josephine Achola in Seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix's “13 Reasons Why”. Both examples demonstrate the wisdom of fleeing together, with support. Moderated by members of The Commissary Crystal Dickinson and Brandon J Dirden portrayal of comedian/civil-rights activist, Dick Gregory, in TURN ME LOOSE.<><>, Keith Randolph Smith (He/Him) BROADWAY: Jitney; American Psycho; Fences; Come Back Little Sheba; King Hedley II; The Piano Lesson; Salome OFF-BROADWAY: Lockdown; Holiday Heart; Intimacy; Paradise Blue; The Revolving Cycles; Before It Hits Home REGIONAL: How To Catch Creation; The Dreams Of Sarah Breedlove; Water By The Spoonful; Looking Over The President’s Shoulder; Les Trois Dumas; Antony and Cleopatra FILM and TV: Anesthesia; Malcolm X; Path To Paradise; Girl Six; Backstreet Justice; Journeymen; ”The Good Wife”; I’ll Fly Away; “Law and Order”; “Cosby”; Onion<><>, Chris Stack (He/Him) NYC: The Secret Life of Bees and Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater), Ugly Lies The Bone (Roundabout Underground) Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait (Rattlestick/Rising Phoenix Rep), Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theater), Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons), Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep), Killers & Other Family (Rattlestick). Jenn Haltman) ); I Can’t Explain it Better Than That, by Sarah Shaefer (Rising Phoenix Rep); Charles Mee’s Trojan Women 2.0 (CSC First Look Festival); Charlotte Miller’s Rocks, a part of the triptych, Zurich, NY (Ensemble Theatre Group at The Tank); Four Hundred Parts Per Million (Blessed Unrest); The Calmative and Baal both directed by Scott Ebersold; Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang, dir. You need to believe in something. In her influential essay about how the imagination works, “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison wrote, “You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. ‘Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. LCT: The Rolling Stone, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.One of the technology industry’s dullest companies offers lessons in how the superstars like Google and Facebook might manage to outlast government lawsuits… Interviews: Miles Davis (1988), Muhammed Ali/Nikki Giovanni (1971), Joan Baez (1984), Pete Seeger (2006) EPA scientists found in 2018 that people of color in forty-six states live with more air pollution than whites.3. Click to view this conversation! She is a recipient at The Lilly Awards and Lucille Lortel Awards. The engineers of the historic landmark site studied the implications of marsh subsidence before embarking on construction. Rising is also a treatise on language. Joni Mitchell. TV includes recurring roles on “One Dollar”, “The Path”, “The Affair”, and “Nurse Jackie”. (Runtime: 60 minutes) He has collaborated as an associate/assistant with Regina Taylor, Tyne Rafaeli, John Rando, Oliver Butler, Jose Luis Valenzuela, Helena Kaut-Howson & Kathryn Hunter. Her next book, Caution: Lessons in Survival, will be published by Holt. Occasionally the river floods these places. One final thought on the survival lesson of Thanksgiving. The politics ignores all of these small, poor places on the Inner banks.” Together they explore the poor, flat, waterlogged country that Riggs dubs “NC Low,” of sleepy towns with under a foot of elevation, some built and settled by freed slaves who’d worked on nearby farms, now dwindling, threatened, and ignored. Sandy cost $72 billion. REGIONAL: Timon of Athens, Everybody (Shakespeare Theatre Company ), Go. On the album it segués into Let the Wind Carry Me, so I think of the two songs as part 1 and part 2 of the same composition. Not only did Dorian’s devastation demonstrate that the most vulnerable populations with the smallest carbon footprints are hit hardest, it also offered a nightmare picture of “climate apartheid,” wherein the rich can move to safety while the poor may be excluded, refused, or killed at the borders of privileged nations like ours. (Montana Rep), The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Manor), Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet (Chautauqua Theater Company), Christmas Carol (Portland Stage), Revolt. Mimi Lien.) Both Gaul and Rush cover various resilience plans and policies to address sea level rise at local levels. Film: He’s Way More Famous Than You (co-writer), Grantham and Rose (writer), Woven (co-writer). Foraging and hunting were essential to supplement barely stocked pantries. Hamer. Interviews: Lucille Clifton/Sonia Sanchez (2001), Sarah Keys Evans (2019), John Lewis (1963), Paul Robeson (1960) ↩. The youngest of them was my father, Albert Jr. 1 of 3 School officer Ruth Browning talks to middle school staff about how to keep kids safe in the event of an attack by an armed gunman. LESSON: Living well does not have to mean living in convenience and luxury. Prior to that, she played the role of Mitra in Clubbed Thumb Summerworks's sold out production of Lunch Bunch, which was a New York Times Critics' Pick. That gets you tough. Texans want $61 billion to protect their coast from hurricanes and floods, half of it for a barrier and levee to protect Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel. Thus, at one historic site coalesced two different examples of resilience. In fact, the Union of Concerned Scientists listed the Tubman site among seventeen endangered national landmarks, long before its official grand opening in 2017. There’s enough glacial ice in Greenland alone to raise sea levels about twenty-five feet. Lessons in Survival posted September 13, 2020 at 06:45 pm by Patrick David Cenon The TV series “I Should Not Be Alive” invites survivors to narrate how they overcame the odds in life-threatening survival situations like being trapped on a mountain cliff, being lost in a jungle, or being adrift at sea. Sara Thigpen with Boomerang Theatre Co.) Charles Mee’s Summertime (Between two Burroughs, dir. “It kept coming back to that. Webseries: Help Wanted; and the award winning, Downsized . You need to believe in something. Gaul predicts that soon we’ll be walloped by a hurricane with a $250 billion price tag because we’ve foolishly developed so much property on barrier islands and coastal floodplains. TLThompsonactor.com.<><>, "Adrienne Kennedy is one of the greatest living playwrights, not just in our country, not just one of the Black playwrights, but one of the greatest living playwrights in the world..." - Jeremy O. Harris ow.ly/ASbO50Dz9Ir ... See MoreSee Less, Black History Month: Jeremy O. Harris on Honors Playwright Adrienne Kennedy, "Adrienne Kennedy is one of the greatest living playwrights, not just in our country, not just one of the Black playwrights, but one of the greatest living playwrights in the world..." - Jeremy O. Harris, In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is once again inviting Broadway artists to celebrate the Black theatermakers who inspire them. His play Nora Highland was shot as a feature film during the pandemic, and had its world premiere at the 2020 NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival. That you're just not good enough. Davis. BA in English Literature: Columbia University; MFA in Acting: UCSD.<><>, Peter Gerety’s film credits include Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, Robert Zemeckis' Flight, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, George Clooney’s Leatherheads, Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, Spike Lee’s Inside Man, the independent feature Things That Hang from Trees, Syriana, War of the Worlds, K-Pax, People I Know, Magic Hour, Montana, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Mrs. Winterborne, Surviving Picasso, Ed Burn’s Ash Wednesday, A Most Violent Year, Cymbeline, Get the Gringo, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, God's Pocket, The Sea Is All I Know, Hollywood Ending, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, A Change in the Air and Working Man. Associate scenic designer for Moby Dick (A.R.T., Des. Their houses were then demolished so that, through the process of rewilding, the land could act as a buffer against future storms. Please. If you need any assistance, contact boxoffice@vineyardtheatre.org or call 646-931-4711. I probably don’t need to tell you that Albert Sr.’s murderer went scot-free. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Taylor’s crucial inclusion of the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in her definition of the American shore points to the absence of these territories as sites of serious inquiry in Rising as well as in Gaul’s The Geography of Risk. Daniel Talbot); and Row after Row, by Jessica Dickey (Rising Phoenix Rep); regional - Michael Greif's Street Scene and Annie Dorsen's The Blue Bird (Williamstown), The Comedy of Errors (Vineyard Playhouse). While Gaul focuses on the thorny issue of unsustainable cost (without mentioning the current wave of lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry—which many believe should help foot the bill for the destruction it has helped to engender—such as People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp.) Rush focuses on the strategy of community-driven resettlement with government support. Marsh grasses have sensibly retreated to higher ground to survive the water’s rise. Lesson in survival. TL is also in the NY Neo Futurist, who performs frequently in The Infinite Wrench, an ongoing attempt to perform 30 plays in one hour. Her other New York credits include The Big Knife and After Miss Julie (Broadway), Ironbound at Rattlestick, Kill Floor at Lincoln Center, Blasted and Marie Antoinette, both at Soho Rep, Three Sisters at Classic Stage, Cyclone at Studio Dante (Obie Award), and In The Wake at the Public Theatre. How do we also afford to protect Mobile, New Orleans, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, and Boston? The burning of the Amazon affects all of us, as does the melting of Greenland, and the decline of honeybees. There’s simply no surviving against an occupation force when facing them as an individual or small group. He had nothing. Film/TV: The Way I Remember It, The Knick. www.youshinchen.com<><>, Dan Butler, Actor (He/Him), is an actor, writer, director, and producer, Dan’s many acting credits most recently include Irish Rep’s highly acclaimed on-line production of The Weir. He is the Associate Artistic Director of On The Verge Theatre Company-Santa Barbara, a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow, a Theatre Lumina company member. January 6, 2021. BFA in Drama, Carnegie Mellon.<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>, RYAN SPAHN (He/Him) Off-Broadway: Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre), Mr. Toole (59E59), How To Load A Musket (59E59), Moscow x6 (MCC and Williamstown), Daniel’s Husband (Westside Theatre and Primary Stages), Summer and Smoke (Classic Stage and Transport Group), Still at Risk (Theatre for the New City), Exit Strategy (Primary Stages), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre). In an Essence interview last January called “Black Women Are Leading the Way in Environmental Justice,” Taylor also cites Harriet Tubman as an early environmentalist with deep knowledge of and spiritual connection to the land. Black road. 2020 has been a blur. Featuring: Kyle Beltran, Yonatan Gebeyehu, TL Thompson, EP 5: “Something is Beginning to Crack” Spinning out on turns. For that role she was nominated for a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award, a 2017 Outer Critics' Circle Award, and a 2017 AUDELCO Award. Rising is an assemblage of vignettes: interviews with scientists, cautionary photographs of coastal ghost trees killed at the root by salinity, first-person testimonials by folks living in threatened wetlands, and accounts of the author’s travels to transforming shoreline communities, including in Louisiana, Florida, Rhode Island, Maine, New York, and California. Although he doesn’t expect we’ll get that much rise, he believes we’d be wise to prepare for fifteen. That you're just not good enough. Verging on collapse, the NFIP has lurched from one disaster to the next and is now over $20 billion in debt. Nicole is a prolific Voice Artist, having recorded for Dreamworks’ Madagascar, PBS’s “NOVA” and several podcasts and audiobooks for Penguin Audio, Simon & Schuster and Audible including Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (New York Times #7 best seller Audio Fiction), Michelle Harper’s The Beauty in Breaking, Zinzi Clemmons’ What We Lose, a novel, and Sarah Kuhn’s Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. Off-Broadway/Regional: Slow Food (Dorset Playhouse), WarholCapote (A.R.T. Guru books-the Bible. Featuring: Crystal Dickson, Brandon J. Dirden, Peter Mark Kendall, Victoria A. Villier, Reggie D. White Nobody wants to return to the challenging times of a hundred years ago, but living the survival life is a challenge that can be mastered. In 2017 alone, Harvey, Irma, and Maria resulted in over $300 billion in combined losses. Featuring: Kalyne Coleman, Peter Gerety, Jennifer Ikeda, Peter Mark Kendall, TL Thompson, Nicole Villamil, Live Open Rehearsal 4* Regional: The Luckiest (La Jolla Playhouse),The Bluest Eye (Arden Theatre), And She Would Stand Like This (The Movement Theatre Company), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), The Last Tiger in Haiti (Berkeley Rep/La Jolla Playhouse), Party People (Berkeley Rep). ↩, See Samantha Willis, “Black Women Are Leading the Way in Environmental Justice, Essence, January 11, 2019. Ryan will appear in the upcoming seasons of "The Second Wave" (recurring, CBS Spectrum Originals) and “Modern Love” (Amazon). He was still in her womb when a white man shot and killed her husband, my grandfather, practically for sport. The courage it took Mabel to escape from harm’s way and start her life over was no less extraordinary for being such an ordinary African-American story. At other times, they must trek to a spring or water-holding depression at least every third day. Dorceta Taylor, an environmental sociologist, explores these divisions more fully in Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility (2014). Despite these efforts, by the century’s end, the park constructed in homage to Tubman will likely be flooded. Lessons in Survival is the recipient of a grant from the Venturous Theatre Fund of the Tides Foundation. Training: The Juilliard School. Special Guests Casey Llwellyn, Michael R. Jackson, Claudia Rankine It’s climate gentrification.”. Say we pay for that. Additional Broadway credits include "Clybourne Park," "Enron," and "Prelude to a Kiss." Increasingly, because of climate change, our received ideas of strict national boundaries no longer hold. My grandmother Mabel’s values were detached from home ownership. He recently starred in the ABC series "For Life," and was seen in the FX miniseries "Mrs. The water is rising, and sooner or later we’ll have to move inland. Can we pay for Miami and Norfolk and Atlantic City and also erect walls around NYC and the entire Florida peninsula? Greenland lost a record 12.5 billion tons of ice in just one day this August, prompting one NASA oceanographer to sound the Klaxon: “We should be retreating already from the coastline.”. According to the IPCC, we’re looking at between one and three feet of rise by the end of the century. Gaul asks us a series of difficult market-driven questions after shocking us with the sticker price to adapt the coast to the warming world. Most recently, Morton received the NAACP’s Lifetime Achievement Award for theatre, and the Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, and AUDELCO awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a play, for his Was it ever so apparent we need this dialogue?” — Lorraine Hansberry, 1964, “This country is your problem and it is my problem.” — James Baldwin, 1968. A recent model by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) presents a worst-case scenario of eight. In the end, builders hauled in tons of extra fill dirt to raise the first floor of the site two feet above base flood elevation. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. Fun Fact: I used to work at Drama Book Shop in NYC and credit them with a 2nd MFA education.<><>, Josiah Davis (He/Him) is a multi-disciplinary artist. She wrote, directed and stars in the forthcoming independent film Queen of Glory and also played the role of Sade for two seasons of the popular series, “An African City” (2015 Golden Movie Award Winner, 2016 AMVCA Nominee). Read the feature on the creators of Lessons In Survival here and check out Jesse Green’s piece on Political Theater in which he referred to Lessons In Survival as “THRILLING!” here. It’s about exploring foundational concepts that give students self-confidence and knowledge to use in future decision-making. You-Shin is a member of Local USA829, IASTE. Select film: Buffalo Girl (Patch Darragh), Public Hearing (Automatic Moving Co.), and A Quintet (Omnibus Productions). Tyler is a former SDCF Observer, member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Visiting Artist at the Athens Conservatoire in Greece, Resident Director at The Flea, current 2050 NYTW Fellow and Foeller Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival. In the storm’s aftermath, they picked up and moved to Atlanta, part of a mass ad hoc exodus referred to by some at the time as the “world’s first climate refugees.”. NEW YORK: Timon of Athens (Theatre for a New Audience), I Thought I Would Die, But I Didn’t (New Georges / The Tank ). It would behoove this nation to follow the example of people like her. Only a reminder. Once I could in our love. In part two of this intimate 1971 conversation, Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin discuss their Black literary forebears, and the role of language in liberation. Maybe the most obvious lesson to be learned is how miserably all these fantasies about forming survival groups, living in a retreat while fighting against impossible odds would ultimately fail. Interviews: Bobby Seale (1968), Bobby Seale/Bob Costas (1992), Ericka Huggins/Angela Davis/JoNina Abron/Barbara Rogers (1989) Jett Garrison. Faced with the horrors of climate change, both Rush and Gaul struggle to define or redefine the term “resilience.” What do we mean, they both explicitly ask, when we name a person, place, or thing “resilient”? She has also performed Off Broadway at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and The Signature Theater and most recently Theater for A New Audience. Damini Grover (4,095) Facebook Twitter. Nevertheless, when she fled state-sanctioned white terrorism in Mississippi, it wasn’t easy for her to go. Rustin. “But if only the rich can afford to build seawalls and widen beaches, that’s not much of an adaptation. Finding edible plants, nuts, berries and wild game may have been the difference between malnutrition or starvation and continued survival. Helen trained at The Juilliard School where she received the John Houseman Prize.<><>, Kalyne Coleman (She/Hers) is from Richmond, Virginia and is a graduate from the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA in Acting program. Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge (The Atlantic), The Harvest (LCT3), Mercury Fur (The New Group), Joe’s Pub (with Whitney White), Judson, Partial Comfort. She is a Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, The Commissary Play Group, The Actor’s Center, and graduate of Yale University (BA) and ACT (MFA). From building a fire and shelter, to obtaining clean water, students can engage in these hands-on wilderness survival … When something is going to kill you, you run. Most of the focus of the rising water lay where the moneyed property was. Film & TV: “Gotham”, “Blindspot”, “The Parent ‘Hood”, Buzzer, Medias Res, Stranger In Blood.