Stage & Stanza
Stage & Stanza Honors
Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and Edna St. Vincent Millay
THURS, October 22, 7:00-8:45pm
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- “Sonia Sanchez” by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Ntozake Shange, Reid Lecture, Women Issues Luncheon, Women’s Center, November 1978
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay, public domain
Tonight’s honorees: Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
WHERE: Virtual Event via Zoom
HOW: Event is free, but registration is required. Register by emailing [email protected] for Zoom link. Suggested donation $5.
WHO: Theater Institute at Sage, Opalka Gallery, and Carol Durant and The Women’s Institute at Russell Sage College.
About Stage & Stanza
Carol Durant is a poet, author, playwright and event host. She is an actor and stage manager most recently with the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York. She has a M.A in Africana Studies from University at Albany. She is the founder and host of Outliers Poetry Brunch, which is a monthly poetry brunch at Eden Cafe in Loudonville and online. She is a longstanding board member of Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar. Durant’s newest book is Cold Pressed and Just Brewed Poetry. Her first book, Whole Phat and Gluten Free Poetry was published in 2017. Her play, Center of Lying Down was recently cast and performed on Zoom by Quarantine e-Theater, as a wildly successful fundraiser for Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York.
David Baecker is Managing Director of the Theatre Institute at Sage and Associate Professor of Theatre at Russell Sage College. He is also a communications coach with the New York State Defenders Association. Locally, he has directed readings and/or productions for Saratoga Shakespeare Company, the Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy Foundry Theatre, Theater Voices, and the New York State Theatre Institute. Baecker has an M.F.A. in Acting from Florida State University and a B.A. in Theatre from Washington University in St. Louis.
Theatre Institute at Sage. Established in February of 2011, the Theatre Institute at Sage is dedicated to providing quality live theatre and arts-in-education programming to Capital Region youth, educators and residents. The Institute also provides opportunities for Russell Sage students as performers, technicians and teachers.