Theater Alaska presents
Online screenings of New Dawn Theatre’s

A Breath for George

Friday, October 23 @ 7:30PM (Post-show discussion with Austene Van, New Dawn Theatre artistic director)
Saturday, October 24 @ 7:30PM (Post-show discussion with Austene Van, New Dawn Theatre artistic director)

TICKET PRICES: FREE

Join us for the online screenings of New Dawn Theatre’s A Breath for George, a collection of songs, interviews, and poems honoring the life of George Floyd. A Breath for George was created by New Dawn Theatre and Minnesota artists to give voice to the ways Black citizens & residents historically have been negatively affected emotionally, physically and financially by systemic racism and nationwide police violence, and to share avenues which promote hope and positive changes for the future.

All screenings will be over Zoom and are free. There will be a discussion after each presentation with New Dawn Artistic Director Austene Van.

Artists featured include James T. Alfred, Jamecia Bennett, James Craven, Jamil Jude, Aimee Bryant, Perri Gaffney, Peter Macon, Thomasina Petrus, T. Mychael Rambo, Frank Sentwali, Regina Marie Williams, and Jevetta Steel. Interviews with Melvin Carter, Jr., Sarah Bellamy, Harvey Blanks, Talvin Wilks and Professor John Wright are also included in the collection.

This past summer, New Dawn Theatre presented A Breath for George outdoors at theaters across the Twin Cities, MN, including at Penumbra, Pillsbury House and Theatre, Mixed Blood, The Guthrie, Gremlin, Plymouth Congregational Church, The Ordway, and Yellow Tree.

DONATIONS
Theater Alaska and New Dawn Theatre would like for you to please consider volunteering or donating to any of the listed organizations on the New Dawn website that are committed to rebuilding their communities and eradicating systemic racism - www.newdawtheatre.org.

ABOUT NEW DAWN THEATRE
New Dawn Theatre's mission is to draw brilliance out of shadows by illuminating & supporting cutting edge works of overlooked, underrepresented communities of our theatrical landscape through innovative, exciting & excellent theater productions.

Austene Van (New Dawn Theatre Artistic Director) is a 2013-2014 McKnight Fellowship Award winner, IVEY Award recipient for Guthrie Theatre's Trouble in Mind and Woodie Award nominee for Best Actor and Best Supporting actor for her multiple roles in both Spunk and Colored Museum at the St. Louis Black Rep. Austene has been a Minnesota and national theater professional for 30 years; acclaimed as a gifted, "quietly powerful" and "innovative" actor, director and choreographer. Inextricably woven into her artistic aesthetic is her deep passion to advocate for social justice, equity and equality, which is why Austene also enjoys her roles as an educator, administrator and community builder through varied disciplines of theater. Austene's stage credits include Familiar, Disgraced, Trouble in Mind, Amen Corner, Gem of the Ocean, Crowns and A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theatre; Disgraced at McCarter/Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Wedding Band, The Owl Answers, Detroit '67, Spunk, Amen Corner, Blue, Ain't Misbehavin', Dinah Was, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Zooman and the Sign, Seven Guitars and Lost in The Stars at Penumbra; the title role of Aida in Aida at Theater Latte Da at the Pantages; Radio Golf at IRT/Cleveland Playhouse; Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire; Henry IV and The Unsinkable Molly Brown at Ten Thousand Things Theatre; In The Next Room at the Jungle Theatre; Might As Well Be Dead and To Kill a Mockingbird at Park Square Theatre; Shrek the Musical, Once on this Island, Two African Tales, A Very Old Man and Not Without Laughter at Children’s Theater Company; A Christmas Story, Singing in the Rain and Dinah Was at The Ordway Music Theater; Hair at Chanhassen Dinner Theatre; Vices, Two Queens One Castle, Dance On Widow’s Row and Point of Review at Mixed Blood Theatre. Austene's directing credits include The Royale at Yellow Tree Theatre; Annie (Best Play, City Pages Best of 2018) at Ordway Music Theater; Hot Mikado at Skylight Music Theatre; Intimate Apparel at Ten Thousand Things Theatre; Blues in the Night at McKnight Theatre, The Ordway; Gee's Bend, Hot Chocolate and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Park Square Theatre; Black Nativity, 2006-2008, at Penumbra Theatre; Lonely Soldier Monologues and A Civil War Christmas at History Theatre; Ain't Misbehavin' at the Capri Theatre; Six Degrees of Separation at Theatre in the Round; Joan; Voices in the Fire for the Guthrie Theatre Experience at Rarig.