Climate Action, Artfully Articulated, Brilliantly Staged

Presented by Live Arts Miami, Miami Book Fair and #ARTiculatingClimate

A panel conversation with three playwrights (Georgina Escobar, Nathan Yungerberg & Madeline Sayet) moderated by Chantal Bilodeau, Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle

Welcome and Q&A by Susan Caraballo, Artistic Director, #ARTiculatingClimate

Every other year, 50 playwrights from around the world are commissioned to write short plays about the climate crisis for Climate Change Theatre Action, a worldwide series of readings and performances which aims to foster conversations about climate change and encourage people to action.

Join us for a conversation with co-organizer Chantal Bilodeau, Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle, and three playwrights who participated in Climate Change Theatre Action 2019. Playwrights were prompted to highlight the stories of climate warriors and climate heroes who are building a more just and sustainable world. They will discuss their experience approaching this existential crisis through the discipline of theatre and read short excerpts from their work.

Chantal Bilodeau

Live Arts Miami

Susan Caraballo

Live Arts Miami

Georgina Escobar

Live Arts Miami

Madeline Sayet

Live Arts Miami

Nathan Yungerberg

Live Arts Miami

Chantal Bilodeau

Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and the Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle, an organization that uses theatre to foster conversation about our global climate crisis, create an empowering vision of the future and encourage people to take action. She is writing a series of plays that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight Arctic states. She was named one of “8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine.

Susan Caraballo

Susan Caraballo has worked as an arts manager, producer, and curator for 20+ years. She is currently exploring her own artistic practice through the intersection of curating, directing, and collective artmaking while focused on the ecological crisis. This interdisciplinary practice is grounded in her interests in film, performance, and creative writing. Currently, she serves as a resident artist at the Deering Estate and Live Arts Miami working on an immersive theatrical experience titled Prelude to 2100.

Georgina Escobar

Georgina Escobar is a playwright and director from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She is a MacDowell Fellow, Djerassi Resident and recipient of the Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. Her work has been featured in the Kilroys List, The Texas Review, Lighting The Way, Los Bárbaros, McSweeney’s Anthology, and New Passport Press. Her plays have been produced across the USA and internationally in Mexico, Denmark, and Sweden.

Madeline Sayet

Madeline Sayet (she/her) is a citizen of the Mohegan Tribe and Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. For her work as a theater maker she has been honored as a Forbes 30Under30, TED Fellow, and recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama.

Nathan Yungerberg

Nathan Yungerberg’s plays have been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre, LAByrinth Theater, The National Black Theatre, The Lark, Climate Change Theater Action, and Roundabout Theatre. Esai’s Table was featured in The Cherry Lane Theatre’s 2017 Mentor Project (Mentored by Stephen Adly Guirgis). Highlights: 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Pending), I AM SOUL residency, 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, The 2016 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist). Nathan is also a writer for Sesame Street.