The stories we share with one another are the active forging of identity through language. We define community through the articulations of our struggles, our privileges, our questions, and our cultural understandings. To engage in dialogue is a profound civic act.

CURRENT PROJECT:

(Fall 2020) Thomas Murray and Dee Dee Batteast are co-directing Dwandra Nickole Lampkin in a teleplay adaptation of The Conviction of Lady Lorraine for Farmers Alley Theatre in association with Waltzing Mechanics.

(Summer 2020) Thomas directed Dee Dee Batteast in a teleplay adaptation of No AIDS, No Maids: Stories I Can’t F*ckin’ Hear No More for Waltzing Mechanics in association with Gloucester Stage Company and Ball State University.