Roleplay
A still from the film Roleplay
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About the Film
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In February 2018, Tulane University announced that 41% of undergraduate women and 19% of undergraduate men reported being sexually assaulted while attending the college; a revelation that made national news and prompted a public outcry from students on campus.
Directed by Katie Mathews and produced by Mercein alongside Darcy McKinnon and Abby Epstein, ROLEPLAY explores a modern college campus through the lens of social norms and social performance - how young people wear masks, code switch and perform identities to fit in and to survive - and the impact art can have as a healing practice. The film follows the rehearsal process, students’ lives outside of the classroom, and staged fantasy sequences where students’ imaginations run wild and we understand the healing power of creative spaces. The film is currently in post-production.
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A workshop showing of “Roleplay” in April of 2019. Pictured: Hannah Kent, Miranda Kramer, Alexandra Elam, Aaron Avidon, Hannah Gordon, James Weiss, CJ Briggs, Hailey Mozzachio, Annalise Harknett, and Noah Hazzard. (Photo by Michael Santiago)
About the Play
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Over the course of the 2018/2019 school year, an 11-member ensemble of Tulane students, working in collaboration with acclaimed New Orleans theater company Goat in the Road Productions and Professor Jenny Mercein, explored their own experiences with identity, sex, power, and consent, in order to devise a theater piece that confronts toxic cultures on their campus. The approach is grounded in a belief that a project about young people, for young people, needs to also be written by young people.
For production inquiries, please visit my contact page.
A workshop showing of “Roleplay” in April of 2019. Pictured: Hannah Kent, Miranda Kramer, Alexandra Elam, Aaron Avidon, Hannah Gordon, James Weiss, CJ Briggs, Hailey Mozzachio, Annalise Harknett, and Noah Hazzard. (Photo by Michael Santiago)
Press
Feature from American Theatre Magazine, Theatre Communications Group (October 2019)