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Home › News & Events › News › RomeroFest set to celebrate the works of playwright and TFTV Associate Professor Elaine Romero

RomeroFest set to celebrate the works of playwright and TFTV Associate Professor Elaine Romero

February 17, 2021

RomeroFest, a month-long international festival celebrating the diverse and impactful works of playwright and School of Theatre, Film & Television Associate Professor Elaine Romero, will premiere as a series of digital performances by theatre companies across the U.S. and in Mexico in March. The festival is a collaboration between Arizona Theatre Company, the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, and Winding Road Theater Ensemble.

As part of the festival, TFTV will join Winding Road Theater Ensemble and the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre to present readings of each of the three plays in Romero’s U.S./Mexican Border Trilogy. Sean Daniels will direct Wetback, the first in the trilogy presented on March 15 by Winding Road. On March 17, TFTV students will present a reading of Mother of Exiles, the second play in the trilogy. The production will be directed by TFTV Instructor Claire Mannle and presented on Zoom. On March 20, the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre will present Title IX, the third in the series, with Eva Tessler directing.

Elaine Romero: “Each of the Border Trilogy plays deals with a social issue. After Sandy Hook happened, I started to hear about this proposal that schools in Arizona arm teachers. With guns in classrooms, I started thinking about all that could go wrong, how someone with good intent could become a perpetrator. Each of the plays from this trilogy features a Latina educator at their center” Romero says of her Border Trilogy works. “I’m interested in flawed people, people who can’t live up to their highest ideals. Magda, the teacher at the heart of Mother of Exiles doesn’t see her own overconfidence (she knows how to use a gun properly, she thinks). She doesn’t see her own classism and elitism. Most of all, she doesn’t know that with enough pressure from the outside, anyone can explode from the inside.”

“Elaine and I have been fans of each other’s work since we became colleagues in 2015” reflects director Claire Mannle. “We have been trying to find a chance to work together and I am thrilled to a be a part of the international celebration of her voice. Mother of Exiles, the pulsing heart of the Border trilogy, is an intersection of many American questions at once: how do we balance freedom and safety, privilege and responsibility, identity and possibility? The play offers multiple challenging roles for our students to explore in a contemporary and local context. Elaine has also created non-realistic moments that I think have the potential to be evocative in a Zoom reading.”

The Festival opens on March 1 at 5:00pm with a digital “Scholar Kickoff” featuring a town hall-type panel discussion about Elaine’s work and its impact. A full list of plays to be presented and schedules will be announced in February and will be available at www.arizonatheatre.org.

Read more about RomeroFest at American Theatre

 

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Join members of the creative team for a premiere screening and artist talkback about creating new theatre in a socially distanced world on April 1, 2021 at 6pm.

FROM THE FISHBOWL will be streaming online April 1 - 18, 2021 through The Scoundrel & Scamp. Tickets are $11 per device and can be purchased here: am.ticketmaster.com/arizonaarts/fromthefishbowl.
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New voices and new visions from a world, interrupted. The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and TFTV present a devised work written in collaboration with Theatre Studies students from The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television. In From the Fishbowl, visual theatre creator Wolfe Bowart directs a cast of performers who glide magically and seamlessly between stage and screens.

Join members of the creative team for a premiere screening and artist talkback about creating new theatre in a socially distanced world on April 1, 2021 at 6pm. 

FROM THE FISHBOWL will be streaming online April 1 - 18, 2021 through The Scoundrel & Scamp. Tickets are $11 per device and can be purchased here: https://am.ticketmaster.com/arizonaarts/fromthefishbowl.
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TFTV student filmmaker Andy Zhao’s film "Asian and American" is featured in the annual documentary showcase What’s Up, Docs?, streaming digitally for the first time through The Loft Cinema. This year’s lineup features 15 short documentaries made by TFTV students, and focuses heavily on Tucson and some of their own personal experiences.

Zhao, a Film & Television junior, decided to focus on a topic that he has known since childhood. In his film "Asian and American", the “and” between identifiers acknowledges the cultural tightrope walked by Asian-Americans. Especially during adolescence, people of color experience a push toward Americanization that causes an obscuring of the self and disconnect from one’s heritage. Zhao explores this phenomenon in his latest documentary through profiles of three young Asian-American individuals that have experienced a similar separation from their roots. Shoon Shojima, Sandy Trieu, and Matthew Potwardowski share their stories of growing up Asian in America. The profiles include their struggles with masculinity, identity, and conformity and the ways in which they have begun to reconnect and remain in touch with their culture.

"Asian and American" is one of fifteen documentaries in What’s Up, Docs? streaming for free through The Loft Cinema at: youtu.be/1Hgm2Nu7aew

Read more at Arizona Daily Wildcat: www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2021/02/o-asian-and-american
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OPINION: Discussing cultural disconnect with student filmmaker Andy Zhao

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Asian-Americans face discrimination throughout real-life encounters and representation on media every day. “Asian and American” by University of Arizona student Andy Nguyen Zhao addresses these struggles, and is being showcased at the What's Up, Docs? film festival.
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Nice piece on Andy's excellent film, Selena Kuikahi! Check out this op-ed in today's NYT. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/anti-asian-violence.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Ho...

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This Antarctic gender non-conforming creation myth tells the stories of three scientists amid a melting tundra. FROZEN FLUID is a meditative exploration of gender, faith, and climate change.

Join a special online showing and artist talkback on Saturday, February 20th at 1pm or stream online February 14-27.

Tickets are $11 per device with donations encouraged: scoundrelandscamp.org/frozen-fluid
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The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre presents FROZEN FLUID, the lauded new work by rising playwright and TFTV alum Fly Jamerson. TFTV Instructor Claire Mannle directs alum Emily Fuchs and current student Zoe Keeter alongside Em Bowen and Steve McKee. Raulie Martinez, an alum of TFTVs Design & Technical Production division, serves as video designer and associate producer.

This Antarctic gender non-conforming creation myth tells the stories of three scientists amid a melting tundra. FROZEN FLUID is a meditative exploration of gender, faith, and climate change.

Join a special online showing and artist talkback on Saturday, February 20th at 1pm or stream online February 14-27.

Tickets are $11 per device with donations encouraged:  https://scoundrelandscamp.org/frozen-fluid
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Solution Number Two, one of the short documentaries currently making its premiere as part of What's Up, Docs?, recently featured in a story for UA News. The documentary by TFTV filmmakers John Taylor and Carter Hayek chronicles the university's efforts to track campus spread of coronavirus by testing wastewater from student dorms. Taylor and Hayek sat down with microbiologist Dr. Ian Pepper, Director of the University's Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center, who discussed the groundbreaking work which helped stop at least one COVID-19 outbreak during the first week of fall classes.

Solution Number Two is one of fifteen documentaries in What's Up, Docs streaming for free through The Loft Cinema from February 4-17, 2021. Stream now at: youtu.be/1Hgm2Nu7aew
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"Solution Number Two," a short documentary produced by students in the School of Theatre, Film and Television, premiered last week and is available to stream through Feb. 17.
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TOMORROW: Join TFTV Director Andy Belser's 'Aging and the Arts - Posture and Balance' session!

This ‘Aging and the Arts’ series will demonstrate awareness through movement with mental and physical exercises from the Feldenkrais Method, led by Andy Belser, certified Feldenkrais instructor and director of the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts.

You can register to attend any of the sessions at the following link: arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CjuUCwpFQ0OxLVFM1nNb8A
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Winter in Tucson...

This photo was taken over the weekend by Justine Collins, Assistant to the Director here at TFTV. We are so lucky to have amazing faculty and staff who share their talents and passions with us!
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This photo was taken over the weekend by Justine Collins, Assistant to the Director here at TFTV. We are so lucky to have amazing faculty and staff who share their talents and passions with us!
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Hey, Justine! Great photo! Hope you are doing well!

My picture is better than that.

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