Photo: Petr William

Production Credits

The Altruists, like The Wolves, is another dramaturgy project I recruited myself for. The director and I were classmates and began talking about the 1990s protest movements that inspired the play. I decided that research I had already completed for The Laramie Project would be a good jumping-off point, and my contribution grew from there. I analyzed the characters and considered what contemporary 1990s issues would concerned each of them. The director wanted the apartment setting to be littered with signs, posters, and flyers, so I searched through photographs for slogans and images for inspiration. Also similarly to Laramie, I developed a playlist for this production that featured 90s hip-hop from different activist perspectives.