"My inspiration for this play derives from a combination of my personal and the collective grief around the mass shooting in the United States. These incidents made me pay attention to the National conversation around the topic of gun violence. On social media I constantly read “lone white shooter” and I started to think about the cycle of how news is dispersed, interpreted, re-dispersed and reinterpreted. This cycle is destructive. From this news, what assumptions do we make about the shooter? About the victims? And about the moments between gunshots?..."
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Poets from the United StatesPlaywrights from the United StatesAfrican AmericansActresses from ChicagoHispanic Americans
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On her play good friday in “From the Playwright of good friday, Kristiana Rae Colón” (The Flea Theater; 2019 Feb 13)
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