Feature
Performer
David
Hanley-Tejeda, Ph.D.
April 17, 2015
in
“MeSo
Mestizo”
David
Hanley-Tejeda is a performance poet and professor of Communication at
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he enjoys teaching students to
better understand their multiple, overlapping, and mutable identities.
“My
show asks, what does it mean to come to racial consciousness, and critical
awareness as a biracial, brown, and white, Mexican, Latino in Southern
Illinois? What does it mean for a person who grew up in white context, in
California, to come to race consciousness in the Midwest? Following the work of
Chicana communication scholars like Bernadette Calafell, Karma Chavez, and
Adrienne Viramontes, I examine what Latino identity means outside of the region
where Latinos are often more commonly considered—the traditional American
southwest.
Feature Performance by GSU Theatre and Performance Studies Program
Directed by Patrick Santoro
April 18, 2015
This hilarious play follows a
teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should.
When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is
forced to reevaluate her life amidst dealing with a totally dysfunctional
family, her own mortality, and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of
first love.