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Tenement Tourism: Housing as a Microcosm of Discrimination
In this special guest blog, Actor Blair Nodelman talks frankly about how race and gender privilege have affected her family’s immigration and housing journeys and why This Place/Displaced feels important to her now. In 1913, my great-grandfather immigrated from Russia to the United States at only three years old. He arrived on Ellis Island, clutching […]
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What Does Home Mean to You?
(Featured image: Unbothered by the rainstorm outside, my cat Dexter sleeps on the radiator in my childhood home.) For this blog, I asked some This Place/Displaced actors and production team members to answer a simple, open-ended question: What does home mean to you? I worried that perhaps the question was too broad or would inspire […]
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An Interview with Playwright Jaymes Sanchez
Meet Jaymes Sanchez, playwright, educator, and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Jaymes to find out a little bit more about his play, Who Owns What, and what this project means to […]
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An Interview with Playwright Livian Yeh
Meet Livian Yeh, award-winning playwright, translator extraordinaire, and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Livian to find out a little bit more about her play, What Happens in this House, and what […]
