Climate Change Theatre Action 2021:
Envisioning a Global Green New Deal
Occurred on Thursday, September 30, 2021
- What might an equitable, sustainable, decarbonized, and just society look like?
- What if the concept of a Green New Deal – a policy platform to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also addressing interwoven societal problems, adopted by climate advocates worldwide – could become reality?
Climate Change Theatre Action launched in 2015 to coincide with the United Nations Paris Climate Conference, and has returned every other year since. The 2019 cycle of plays included 220 presenting collaborators in 28 countries, engaging over 3,000 artists and reaching an audience of roughly 26,000 people. We look forward to being part of this year’s offerings.
To learn more about the theory and spirit behind CCTA, we invite you to listen to Peterson Toscano’s latest Citizens Climate Radio podcast episode with Chantal Bilodeau, the mastermind behind it all, and Zoe Svendsen, who wrote Love Out of Ruins, the MadLib style play we’ll be engaging where everyone is invited to add their own details.
About the Actors
gripp
gripp (ey/em/eir) is a writer / programmer / performer based primarily on the internet. Eir work is multimedia and interdisciplinary, ranging from written word to performance art to electronic installation. Ey have appeared onstage as an actor and a poet, self-published and been printed in literary magazines, built digital chapbooks and chatbots, taught college courses and workshops, and have written, produced, and appeared in short films. In 2021, gripp released eir sixth studio album, Eternalist; ey are also the Executive Producer of fifteen other independent music releases. In 2021, eir first book, a collection of closet screenplays titled The Fainting Game (and Other Stories), was released by Game Over Books. Eir television pilot Offbeat / But On Point won the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay competition and was produced and broadcast as a professionally-staffed table read. In 2016 and 2017, gripp logged back-to-back appearances on the National Poetry Slam final stage. Much of gripp's work is fantastical, surreal, and absurdist. It confronts race, gender, mental imbalance, loneliness, existential dread, and life as a cyborg. In eir spare time, ey enjoy board games, avoiding attention, and writing biographies in the third person.
Kalisto Nanen
Kalisto (he.ze.they) is a journalist, cultural anthropologist, death guide, and a graduate student in Environmental Studies and Sustainability. Kalisto’s research focuses on Cemetery Recognizance Surveys of the Northwest and Southern Black American Funeral Traditions and Customs, Green Burial, Food Systems, and Disability Justice. He received his BA in Cultural Anthropology and Broadcast Journalism from the University of Montana and is currently working on combining legacy writing and horticulture into providing memorials and landscapes for the current generation of dead and dying. He is a singer/songwriter, mixed media artist and has formerly performed in several musicals, monologues and mixed media performances.
Max Currie
Max (they/them) is a recent graduate of Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Musical Theatre. Recent regional credits include The Rocky Horror Show (Phantom) with Moonbox Productions, The Sound of Music (Rolf) with The Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Linus) with Berkshire Theatre Group.
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