New Ohio Theater
5 December 2016
I had the pleasure of performing in the reading for Third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights.
Brigid McLeer is the recipient of the third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. In memory of Leslie Scalapino and her “commitment to the community of experimental writing and performance,” the award “recognizes the importance of exploratory approaches and an innovative spirit in writing for performance.”
Brigid writes: The Triumph of Crowds is a lecture as performance, or performance as lecture, distributed between the voices and gestures of ten performers. Written in response to Nicholas Poussin’s painting ‘The Triumph of David’ (1631) it explores the politics of public assembly, protest, and becoming ‘us’.
Brigid McLeer is Irish living in the UK. She has been working and exhibiting mainly in visual art and installation, as well as performance and writing.