Lisa Sanaye Dring is a writer and director from Hilo, Hawaii and Reno, Nevada. Her play SUMO was produced by La Jolla Playhouse and Ma-Yi Theater Company in 2023 and by The Public with Ma-Yi in
Lisa Dring
Lisa Dring
Marigny Beter
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Interview
Amel Khalil
Amel Khalil
Briana Bhola
Amel Khalil is a Palestinian American actor, writer, and communications strategist whose work bridges storytelling, systems change, and community healing. She co-hosts It’s Okay Habibi, a podcast exploring Arab identity, grief, and cultural pressure, and is …
Christopher Isherwood
Interviewed by Sarah Smith and Marcus Smith in 1975.
Christopher Isherwood was born in England, is now an American citizen, and resides in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of many novels, plays, translations, and autobiographical books.
New Orleans …
James Baldwin
Interviewed by David C. Estes in 1986
As essayist, James Baldwin has written about life in Harlem, Paris, Atlanta; about Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Jimmie Carter; and about Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Norman Mailer. In examining contemporary culture, he …
Jorge Luis Borges
Interviewed by John Biguenet and Tom Whalen in 1982.
Jorge Luis Borges, the distinguished Argentine author of short fiction, poetry, and essays and the winner of the International Publishers Prize, was interviewed by NOR on a recent trip to New …
Anaïs Nin
Interviewed by Jeffrey Bailey (1976)
Anaïs Nin has attained a long-delayed place of honor in contemporary letters through the impetus of her renowned diary and five-volume roman-fleuve, Cities of the Interior. Born and reared in France, of Spanish …
Naz Riahi
Naz Riahi
Briana Bhola
Naz Riahi (she/her) is a director and writer. Much of her work explores the spaces, emotions and opportunities of otherness and isolation, informed by her experiences as an immigrant from Iran.
She was named one of …
Tissa Hami
Tissa Hami
Gabriela Barre
Tissa Hami is the Founder and Principal of Korsi Consulting. A former investment banker turned stand-up comic turned DEI consultant and trainer, Tissa works with clients across industries on their DEI strategies and goals. Her clients have …
Shahrzad Changalvaee
Naz Riahi
Diana Valenzuela
Shahrzad Changalvaee‘s practice responds to sculpture in a vast field of media, including
installation, video, photography, text, performance as well as activism.
Through summoning, truncating, recalling and tokening, She makes works in a variety of
time-based …
Jocelyn Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Breanna Henry
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of My Monticello, a fiction debut that was called “a masterly feat” by the New York Times and a winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award and the …
