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MCC Daily Tribune

Visiting Playwright Hilary Bettis

MCC's Creative Arts Committee, in collaboration with the English/Philosophy Department and The Sixth Act, is thrilled to welcome esteemed playwright Hilary Bettis to campus THIS FRIDAY at 10 AM. 

Bettis's play The Ghosts of Lote Bravo​, which is set in Mexico just on the other side of the United States border, employs both English-language and Spanish-language, as well as magical realism and the supernatural​, to levy a heavy critique of the violence (especially towards women) encouraged by post-NAFTA maquiladores. Although set in Mexico and informed by her family's experiences at the border, Bettis claims in an interview with American Theatre to have written her play "with an American audience in mind."

The event flyer is attached, and Bettis's bio is listed below, along with the zoom link and another link to a special recorded scene performed by current and former MCC students. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any questions you might have.

We'd love to see you and your students on Friday!

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Zoom Link: https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/89071689810

Reading Link: Ghosts of Lote Bravo - YouTube

Hilary Bettis is a critically-acclaimed playwright whose work has been developed and produced all over the country, including Roundabout Theatre, New Georges, The Sol Project, Miami New Drama, Studio Theatre, Alley Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, La Jolla Playhouse, amongst others. In television Bettis won the 2019 Writer’s Guild of America Award for her work on the Emmy Award winning FX series “The Americans.” She wrote on the Hulu miniseries “The Dropout,” and Amazon’s “Rodeo Queens.” She’s an alumni of the Sundance Institute Episodic TV Lab, and is developing projects for AMC, Hulu, and PatMa. She’s a graduate of The Juilliard School.

 

Attached Files:
Hilary Bettis Poster.pdf

Maria Brandt
English/Philosophy, The Sixth Act, and Creative Arts
03/23/2021