Adultification

An Irons in the Fire Project

December 16, 2019 @ 6:00pm
The Creative Center at MTC

Written & Directed by Miranda Haymon

This venue is wheelchair accessible.
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Seating is extremely limited.
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Synopsis

Adultification is a meditation on black womxn growing old and young, watching the clock tick and turn day after day. When the clock stops and concepts of linear time unravel, the characters are challenged with new notions of coming of age and what it means to be an adult.

Performed By

Juliana Canfield
Lynnette R. Freeman
Aisha de Haas

Drums: Genesiss Mejia
Assistant Director: Kayla Stokes

Playwright & Director

Miranda is interested in work that dismantles the antiquated ideology of the white, cis, straight, male, able-bodied, middle class individual as the stand in for ‘universal’. The theater she seeks to make is a resistance; it disrupts the status quo of who and what is allowed in the theatre, and incites audiences and her community to action. Her approach takes classical, devised, adapted and new texts, incorporating technology, nontraditional casting, mixed media, dance, and more in the pursuit of a unique, interdisciplinary theatre. Her theatre is radically inclusive, fundamentally multi-voiced, oriented towards sparking dialogue and in direct conversation with the current American state of affairs.

She is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning writer, director and deviser of performance originally from Boston. Her recent projects include EROTOPHOBIA at Fordham University, IN THE PENAL COLONY at The Tank, and ECLIPSED at Dartmouth College where she co-taught Contemporary Theater. She is an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company, Resident Director at The Tank, a New Georges Affiliate Artist and 2019 Audrey Resident, a Space on Ryder Farm 2019 Creative Resident, member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, the Wingspace Mentorship Program, a 2019/20 New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Directing Fellow, a Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, and a former Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage. Miranda is a graduate of Wesleyan University where she double majored in German Studies and Theater and was awarded the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize in Directing.

Miranda loves Kurt Vonnegut, ugly sweaters and pretending that she's not lactose intolerant so she can eat grilled cheese. She is an aspiring florist, an avid player of Settlers of Catan and pretty good at driving stick shift. Miranda also has a personal vendetta against capitalized letters, as she sees them as part of the antiquated ideologies of normativity she wishes to dismantle. www.MirandaHaymon.com

Poster Art by Sean Devare