Time Exiles
Spearheaded by playwright Liz Appel, Time Exiles explores what gratitude means at this moment in time. How does it appear, how is it coded for different people in different places? What can we learn about the way our communities function and what they value through a collective gratitude process?
This program was piloted with 10 artists in the spring of 2022 and then workshopped at Notch's annual retreat in summer 2023 and then workshopped again at The Dance Theatre of Harlem and presented at the Center for Performance Research in New York City.
During the pilot of this program, we invited ten differently situated individuals to download a free gratitude app called "Delightful," make notes over the course of a month. We combed the data looking for key moments of intersection and repetition, as well as divergence and difference. This content has become the source text and jumping off point as we as we drive toward the creation of a collective piece, an active conversation, a diagnostic tool and an ongoing inquiry that expands with every performance.
This program was piloted with 10 artists in the spring of 2022 and then workshopped at Notch's annual retreat in summer 2023 and then workshopped again at The Dance Theatre of Harlem and presented at the Center for Performance Research in New York City.
During the pilot of this program, we invited ten differently situated individuals to download a free gratitude app called "Delightful," make notes over the course of a month. We combed the data looking for key moments of intersection and repetition, as well as divergence and difference. This content has become the source text and jumping off point as we as we drive toward the creation of a collective piece, an active conversation, a diagnostic tool and an ongoing inquiry that expands with every performance.
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Liz Appel - playwright & co-creatorLiz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto. Her play BELLS LIKE HOOVES was selected for the 2022 Roundabout Underground Reading Series. She's been awarded fellowships and residencies from Ucross, Tofte Lake, the VCCA, and is a 2021–2022 5th Floor Groundbreaker Grant recipient. Commissions from Crow's Theatre (Toronto), Project Y Theatre (New York), she's developed work with Roundabout Theatre, Primary Stages, Notch Theatre, Sod House Theater, Banff Centre, Kennedy Center and more. She's been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize (twice), Fault Line Theatre's Irons in the Fire, PlayPenn, BAPF, Ashland New Plays Festival and the Playwrights’ Center’s Core Apprentice Program. She was a winner of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women, and an Honorable Mention for the Annual Parity Commission (Parity Productions), and The Hearth Theater’s Virtual Retreat. Her short play, SNOW, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her play MOONSHINE, received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane. Her one-act play, REMEMBER, is published in Blackbird. She is a current member of New Georges The Jam and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She interviews writers and directors for Vogue.com. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship (Dec ’21). MPhil from Cambridge (Modern and Medieval Languages), M.A. and MPhil from Yale (English).
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