Tag: Mary Kathryn Nagle

• May 18, 2018

  Manahatta’s Gender Flip: Equity in Action

  Originally published by HowlRound on April 2, 2018. As an advocate for creating equity in the American theatre through consciously changing whom we choose to represent on stage, I am often told, “but that would interfere with the creative process.” The playwright’s vision, some argue, would be compromised by any effort to pursue casting quotas.…
• February 5, 2018

  A Feminist Retelling of Sovereignty

  Originally published by Ms. Magazine Blog on January 10, 2018 As a student at Tulane Law School, activist, writer and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle once persuaded her Critical Race Theory professor to let her write a play as her final paper that was based on Worcester v. Georgia, an 1832 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that tribal…