Arts Program Director Damian Woetzel and Deputy Artistic Director of DC’s Arena Stage, Seema Sueko opened the afternoon with a conversation on Consensus Organizing before turning the room over to Sueko who led participants in a workshop of the dynamic practice. Participants also watched Arena Stage actors Hal Linden and Maboud Ebrahimzadeh perform a scene from the upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s The Price.

  
  

Consensus Organizing for Theater (CO) is an artistic process that deliberately optimizes the art we produce to develop tangible and deep relationships with new audiences. In this methodology, a theatre builds stake in multiple and diverse pockets of communities and those communities build stake back in the art work by surfacing and organizing around mutual self-interests. Social justice is at the core of the CO process along with the question, “What do you really want?Join us for this special participatory Roundtable moderated by Damian Woetzel, Director, Aspen Institute Arts Program, focusing on a powerful new theater method with broad applications in the wider world.

Consensus Organizing for Theater (CO) is an artistic process that optimizes theatrical productions to develop deep and tangible relationships with audiences, organized around mutual self-interests.

Social justice is at the core of the CO process along with the question, “What do you really want?” In this unique engagement, CO pioneer Seema Sueko will lead participants in a workshop of this dynamic practice, which will also be demonstrated by Arena Stage actors performing a scene from the upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s The Price.