Miranda Haymon Residency

Visiting Instructor of Theater Miranda Haymon '16 was the inaugural Breaking New Ground Theater Artist in Residence during the 2020–2021 academic year, a new residency co-hosted by the Theater Department and the Center for the Arts which brings early career BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) theater artists to campus.

During this residency, she held a public conversation with Sam Morreale ’19, discussed her career with Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff, and directed the radio play The Masses are Asses (1974) by Pedro Pietri on Middletown 88.1FM. Click here to see upcoming events as part of this residency.

Miranda Haymon's residency at Wesleyan University was co-sponsored by the Theater Department, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the Center for the Humanities, the African American Studies Department and the Center for African American Studies, and the Center for the Arts.

Photo by Naomi Saito.


2021
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2021

May

Pedro Pietri's The Masses are Asses
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 10:00pm
WESU Middletown 88.1FM
The Masses are Asses (1974) by Pedro Pietri is an absurdist satire that exposes issues of social class, parodies the notion of the American Dream, and plays with political parody. This radio play is directed by Visiting Instructor of Theater Miranda Haymon '16.
Pedro Pietri's The Masses are Asses
Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 10:00pm
WESU Middletown 88.1FM
The Masses are Asses (1974) by Pedro Pietri is an absurdist satire that exposes issues of social class, parodies the notion of the American Dream, and plays with political parody. This radio play is directed by Visiting Instructor of Theater Miranda Haymon '16.

April

Lunchtime Career Talk with Miranda Haymon '16
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 12:00pm
Zoom
Visiting Instructor of Theater Miranda Haymon '16 will discuss their career post-Wesleyan as a freelance artist working in theater, television, film, and commercials, and how COVID-19 has shaped and changed that journey, with Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff.

March

A Conversation with Theater Artist Miranda Haymon ’16
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 8:00pm
YouTube
For this talk, Miranda Haymon ’16 and Sam Morreale ’19 will discuss astrology, Berlin, artistic process, and Haymon’s upcoming radio play version of Pedro Pietri’s The Masses Are Asses (1974), which will be aired on WESU Middletown 88.1FM this spring.