Hearing the Forest Through the Trees
Alight Theater Guild presents Tree Speech, a blend of narrative storytelling, interviews, and wanderlust at the intersection of the personal, historical and cultural ways that trees impact our lives. Each episode seeks to find new understandings to the tangled relationships we have with the natural world in which we inhabit.
We examine folklore, history, holidays, and current events while exploring trees in our conversations around race, religion, and resources with people who all share deep connections to them-from artists and writers to historians and educators, hikers and arborists to environmental activists and advocates.
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Co-creator & Host Dori Robinson
Dori is an award winning director, playwright, dramaturg, and educator. She seeks and develops projects that explore social consciousness, personal heritage, and the difference one individual has on their community. Some of her great loves are the Oxford comma, trees, intersectional feminism, and exchanging with artistic collaborators.
Trained at NYU, Dori has over 20 years of experience as a creative leader, theatre maker, and developing engaging immersive educational experiences. You can find her reading Shakespeare or hiking in various places across New England.
co-creator & producer Jonathan zautner
Jonathan is a NYC-based artist who believes in the power of story-telling and community to change lives.
Having studied Applied Theatre at NYU, he utilizes his interests in dance, puppetry, mask-work, and media to develop and produce new plays and adaptations of works for the stage.
As a founder of Alight Theater Guild, he is committed to nurturing authentic and creative voices in order to promote wellness, joy, and care for our earth and one another which go hand in hand.
Alight Theater Guild is a 501(c)(3) created to advance compelling theatrical endeavors that showcase the diversity of our ever-changing world in order to build strong artists whose work creates empathy, challenges the status quo and unites communities.
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