Film Screening with Director Miranda Haymon ’16: Sis

Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6:00pm
The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown

FREE!

The Theater Department presents a screening of Miranda Haymon’s Sis, a film selected for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, followed by a Q&A with the director, conducted by Assistant Professor of Theater and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Katie Brewer Ball.

 “Haymon is interested in inclusive, multi-voiced theatre that sparks dialogue.”
—American Theatre

Miranda Haymon '16 (she/they) is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning director, writer, and curator. Recent projects include A Cakewalk (Garage Magazine & Gucci), Really, Really Gorgeous (The Tank), Everybody (Sarah Lawrence College), In the Penal Colony (Next Door @ New York Theatre Workshop, The Tank), and Mondo Tragic (National Black Theater). Haymon is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company and The Tank, a New Georges Affiliate Artist, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a Space on Ryder Farm Creative Resident, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and the Wingspace Mentorship Program. Haymon has held directing fellowships at WP Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Arena Stage. For more information please visit www.mirandahaymon.com.

Miranda Haymon was the Breaking New Ground Theater Artist in Residence at Wesleyan during the 2020–2021 academic year.