A virtual musical for progressive candidates
Lauren and her collaborator Ari Afsar performed their “virtual musical” Jeannette for progressive candidates running in 2020.
Using Theater As A Platform For Activism, Local Actors Join Groups Nationwide To Stage Play About Gun Violence
WBUR
Nineteen years ago on Friday, two students opened fire on their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School in Colorado. To mark the anniversary of that tragedy — and to remember the ones that came before and that followed — young people are joining a National School Walkout. But some students, and adults, will be using a different platform to make their voices heard: theater.
KQED Forum: Lauren Gunderson's New Play Takes A Stand Against Gun Violence
KQED Forum
Lauren Gunderson, the most produced playwright in America, is launching a nationwide campaign of theater activism against gun violence with her new play, "Natural Shocks." She is waiving royalties to the piece, so that communities across the country can put on readings the weekend of April 20th -- the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre. Gunderson joins Forum to discuss her commitment to ending gun violence and how theater can be used as a means of social change.
Protesting guns one play at a time
The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
Playwright Lauren Gunderson was a junior at Decatur (Ga.) High School when the Columbine High School shooting took place in 1999. The 17-year-old instantly kicked into activist mode, organizing protests, writing an op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and traveling to Washington D.C. to urge legislators to take action. Nineteen years have passed. School shootings still take place with alarming frequency. Gunderson is still an activist. But today, she has a platform far larger than the one she had as a teenager.
New Plays Join the Fight for Equal Rights
Huffington Post
Gay Americans have given a tremendous amount of time and talent to the American Theatre. On Monday, June 11th, American Theatre gives back in San Francisco.
Six all-new, short plays premiere as part of the Marriage Equality Plays in a night benefiting AFER, Americans Foundation for Equal Rights.
Tom Bruett, the creator and organizer of the event, asked six playwrights, three directors, 18 actors, SF’s premier improv troupe BATS, and supportive businesses J-Lohr Vineyards and Bi-Rite Market to donate their time and voices in a critical season for equal rights. Political leaders Dennis Herrera, City Attorney of San Francisco, and Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener will also be in attendance.
