Black Space S2E9: natyna bean

JCTC’S TALK SERIES ‘BLACK SPACE’ WITH ASHLEY NICOLE BAPTISTE CONTINUES WITH THE AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AND PRODUCER FOR NPR- SYNDICATED SHOW OUR BODY POLITIC; NATYNA BEAN. THIS CONVERSATION IS TAKING PLACE  ON SUNDAY, FEB. 19th  @2:30PM EST

Baptiste, an actor and a veteran youth theatre educator with the JCTC Youth Theatre and the Stories of Greenville initiative, “I want to create  virtual space where Black artists from around the world can come together and have a human-to-human exchange about art, race, and life,” she says. “This series is about expansion, and pushing past preconceived notions of blackness.”

Natyna Bean is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who celebrates Blk queer folks navigating and interrogating the presence and impact of American carceral systems. Combining their/her upbringing in Philadelphia, multiethnic background, and experience as a community worker & theatre artist, natyna confronts internalized behaviors of harm through storytelling, curricula, and song, exploring the possibility of self-sovereignty and asserting hope in hardship. natyna’s work has been produced, published, and/or developed with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Playground Experiment, The Fire This Time Festival, Moving Arts Theatre, 24 Hour Plays Nationals, Theatre L’Acadie, University of Nebraska Omaha, and more. natyna was awarded the 2020 Lorraine Hansberry Lilly Award and the KCACTF National Undergraduate Playwriting Award. A finalist for the NYSAF Founders’ Award and a creative resident of SPACE on Ryder Farm, natyna is an NYU Tisch alum and holds an MFA in Playwriting from the New School for Drama. In addition to their/her dramatic work, natyna is a lead teacher for the Octavia Project, a co-host of the podcast to whom this may affirm, and is a producer for the NPR syndicated show and podcast, Our Body Politic, a media platform that centers the impact and experience of women of color in politics and the news. 

The conversation is taking place Sunday, February 19th @ 2:30 pm EST; FB Live and Zoom webinar

Webinar Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85023371884?pwd=clc4L1I5M3BYTXEvQnErOVBtRFI0UT09

Meeting ID: 850 2337 1884  | Passcode:  001100

“As our city gentrifies while retaining its diversity, and indeed as the world is changing in fundamental ways, being right in the middle of these conversations is essential,” says JCTC’s artistic director, Olga Levina. “For us as a theatre company dedicated to sparking conversations that lead to deeper respect and understanding, we know we need to create a safe place to listen and learn and collaborate.”