WE are the world.

My Director’s Note for the The Nightingale (in case you missed it in the program):

Welcome to The Nightingale!  We are overjoyed to share this production with you – our biggest production to date and the culmination of years of work.  

Our story is set in the near future, in a time when technology has become pervasive and wealth inequalities have grown so extreme that tech moguls have begun buying impoverished towns and turning them into “company towns”.  

When I wrote this play, this imagined future seemed like a possibility.  Sadly, now it feels like a reality.  We had no idea at the inception that much of what we put in the story would come true so quickly.  

We are not living in an easy time.  Every day we are faced with complicated choices, and there are no obvious answers.  How do we live a life that feels connected and genuine and ethical?  Sometimes it feels pointless to try…maybe it’s just the way the world is.

But WE are the world.  We can’t let one person, one ideology, or one technology define our lives. We don’t have to accept it.  We have the power to create the world we want to live in.  Every day.  

I want to live in a world in which people make space for one another in all their beauty and differences.  In which people and organizations with means give freely and uplift people of lesser means.  In which people offer themselves joyously to make the community stronger.  In which people collaborate passionately to create art and ideas.  In which people love and are loved.  I am deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to The Nightingale.  Thank you for creating this beautiful world with me.