	Thursday, September 9, 2021 Visit by UNIVERSES Founders/Artistic Directors Steven Sapp ’89 and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92 The Bard Community is invited to a talk and conversation focusing on Sapp’s and Ruiz-Sapp’s experiences and artistic development from their time as students at Bard, to founding UNIVERSES in 1995, and their company's continued success and development in its twenty-six years as a national theater company of color. Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 UNIVERSES is home to a core group of multi-disciplined writers and performers of color, who fuse theater, poetry, dance, jazz, hip hop, politics, blues and Spanish boleros into their own unique brand of theatre-based performances. The group breaks the traditional theatrical bounds to create its own brand of theater. Founded in The Bronx, New York in 1995, the members of UNIVERSES came together in the urban poetry and music scene of the late 1990s, at venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. UNIVERSES’ original plays include Slanguage, (included in the anthology, The Fire This Time, African American Plays for the 21st Century, TCG), Ameriville, The Ride, The Denver Project, One Shot in the Lotus Position, Blue Suite, Live from the Edge, Party People (performed at The Public Theater in New York City in 2016), and AmericUS, which premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse, 2019-2020. UNIVERSES is the Ensemble in Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Sapp and Ruiz-Sapp have taken their company, (members include ’03 Bard Alum William Ruiz (a.k.a. Ninja) and Gamal Chasten) around the world, electrifying crowds, inviting and challenging old and new generations of theater makers, theatergoers, and newcomers to envision a new American Theater.
	Sunday, May 16, 2021 Senior Project Festival 2021 Online Event 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.May 14 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 15 at 2 pm EDTProjects by: Morgan Barnes-Whitehead and Dmitri Ades-Laurent Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Nat Currey and Ari Ray Agnew Taty Rozetta May 15 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 16 at 2 pm EDT Projects by: Adrian Costa Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Ella Baldwin Josh Barnes Available On-Demand Projects by: Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Taty Rozetta Angela Woodack
	Saturday, May 15, 2021 Senior Project Festival 2021 Online Event 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.May 14 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 15 at 2 pm EDTProjects by: Morgan Barnes-Whitehead and Dmitri Ades-Laurent Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Nat Currey and Ari Ray Agnew Taty Rozetta May 15 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 16 at 2 pm EDT Projects by: Adrian Costa Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Ella Baldwin Josh Barnes Available On-Demand Projects by: Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Taty Rozetta Angela Woodack
	Saturday, May 15, 2021 Senior Project Festival 2021 Online Event 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.May 14 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 15 at 2 pm EDTProjects by: Morgan Barnes-Whitehead and Dmitri Ades-Laurent Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Nat Currey and Ari Ray Agnew Taty Rozetta May 15 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 16 at 2 pm EDT Projects by: Adrian Costa Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Ella Baldwin Josh Barnes Available On-Demand Projects by: Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Taty Rozetta Angela Woodack
	Friday, May 14, 2021 Senior Project Festival 2021 Online Event 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.May 14 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 15 at 2 pm EDTProjects by: Morgan Barnes-Whitehead and Dmitri Ades-Laurent Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Nat Currey and Ari Ray Agnew Taty Rozetta May 15 at 7:30 pm EDT & May 16 at 2 pm EDT Projects by: Adrian Costa Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Ella Baldwin Josh Barnes Available On-Demand Projects by: Avis Zane and Tim Halvorsen Jake Stiel and Anya Petkovic Taty Rozetta Angela Woodack
	Saturday, April 10, 2021 Fucking A A Staged Reading by the Bard POC Theatre Ensemble Online Event 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice. This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color.
	Friday, April 9, 2021 Fucking A A Staged Reading by the Bard POC Theatre Ensemble Online Event 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice. This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color.
	Monday, March 29, 2021 Natalie Lunn Award Application Deadline The Natalie Lunn Technical Theater Award supports Bard students interested in summer internships in technical theater and design. Awards: $3,000 or $2,000. Projects/internships include working with a professional theater company on technical projects or independent tech theater and design projects will also be considered due to possible internship limitations this year. Apply to be considered. Applications are due on March 29, 2021 for mid-April Interviews.
	Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Sunday, May 16, 2021 The Future is Present Various “We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.” The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people* and a small community of young artists from Bard College** to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse. The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply. The artists at Bard made a series of short films for the youth cohort, available to view here. * Reggi Alkiewicz, Tobias Torian Chance, Nia-Selassie Clarke, Whisper Crow Dog, Denaysha Macklin, Alethia Ramos, Dezjuan Smith, Kacey Thomas, Zia Williams, Gabrielle Xavier ** Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima Alem, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang To read a transcript of the video above, click here. The Future is Present is supported by Live Arts Bard, the Fisher Center’s commissioning and residency program. Additional commissioning support provided by New York Live Arts.