Donja R. Love, left, rehearsing for “One of Two.” (Photo by Ahron R. Foster)
NEW YORK CITY: Write it down!a writing workshop for people living with HIV, announced a presentation of short plays written by its 2024 cohort. The staged reading will take place at the LGBT Center on December 2 at 7 p.m.
In 2019, the playwright Donja R. Love created the workshop as a courageous space for people living with HIV. During the 10-week workshop, participants learn to create their own short plays using their personal experiences. The plays come to life each year on World AIDS Day in a celebratory finale screening.
More than reframing the narrative of what it means to live with HIV, the workshop aims to build community, warmth and joy for a group of people who have often been left behind. It also seeks to strengthen the artistic voices of participants and transform society and the theater landscape into a more equitable and stigma-free space for people living with HIV and AIDS.
Love is the author of soft (MCC), one out of two (The new group), Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company), Sugar in our wounds (Manhattan Theater Club), wwhat will happen to all this beauty?, I need space (The new group), And trade.
Write it down! is funded with support from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, GLAAD, Each Other Project, the Terrence McNally Foundation and ViiV Healthcare.
For more information or to RSVPvisit letwriteitout.com.
