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Ongoing Projects

TWB is working with partner organizations on several ongoing projects of particular interest to TWB artists.

THE TRANSLATION PROJECT
The Translation Project was inspired by the work of The Translation Think Tank, which was started by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Marie-Louise Miller to re-engage discussion amongst disperate translation communities about the current state and values of theatrical translation.  In March 2005, working with The Translation Think Tank, TWB was proud to help curate the first e-issue of international playwrighting ever e-published by Words Without Borders (www.wordswithoutborders.com) following a TWB solicitation of some sixty contemporary plays from throughout the world.  Some of those plays are now available on the Play Gallery of the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, MN, USA (www.pwcenter.org).  All submitted manuscripts are available at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (Billy Rose Theatre Collection.)  Many of those plays are listed in the International Play Catalogue on the TWB website. 


TWB continues its commitment to Translation by supporting the work of:

  • American Literary Translators Association
  • The Brooklyn Rail, InTranslation, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  • "hotINK" International Play Festival, NYU (New York University)  
  • Lark Play Development Center, New York City, USA
  • The League of Professional Theatre Women, International Committee
  • Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
  • Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY (City University of New York)
  • The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, University of North Carolina
  • New Dramatists, New York City
  • No Passport
  • PAJ, Performing Arts Journal, MIT Press, New York City
  • PEN America Center, New York City
  • Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • TCG/ITI (International Theatre Institute, US Center) New York City, USA

  • The Translation Think Tank

  • Words Without Borders

THEATRE & PEACEBUILDING

TWB is in the midst of a three-year project with Coexistence International at Brandeis University to explore and document the relationship between Theatre & Peace Building or Conflict Transformation. We are presently compiling an anthology of articles and documentation of numerous examples of that successful partnership around the world. www.brandeis.edu/coexistence/work/strand5.html


We see a building interest in the field towards theatre with a sense of social responsibility. While little curriculum for study is yet available, theatre training programs are developing in this area. Here are some of those programs.

  • California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
  • University of San Francisco, California: Performing Arts and Social Justice
  • Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia: Center for Justice and Peace Building
  • Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island: Theatre Performance and Society
  • Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts: The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Genocide Studies Program
  • New York University, Art and Public Policy
  • Brown University
  • Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

  • University for Peace Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the University and endorsed by the UPEACE Council, the mission of the University for Peace is: “to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.” At present, the UPEACE Costa Rica Campus has 124 students from 37 different countries, making it one of the most diverse universities in the world for its size. UPEACE is the only institution in the UN family authorized to grant degrees at the Master's and Doctoral levels. The language of instruction is English.

  • The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (IGSC) - Rwanda is a nonprofit organization based in Kigali, Rwanda.
    IGSC’s mission is to testify, to study genocide through rigorous cross-disciplinary scholarship, and to understand various mechanisms and structures of violence, with the goal of preventing genocide and mass violence. Jean-Pierre Karegeye (Director of Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies, University of California at Berkeley) and Erik Ehn (Dean of the School of Theater, California Institute of the Arts) first met in Kigali three years ago. They resolved to create a space for the study of the Rwandan Genocide. The initiative has involved theater artists, filmmakers, human rights activists, politicians, survivors, religious practicioners, researchers, students and scholars from various disciplines and countries, whose practice engages questions of testimony, reconciliation, peace building, human rights and dignity.