Raise Your Hand If You're Not Here
Obehi Janice
Shaw Pong Liu
Students worked with theater artist Obehi Janice and musician and composer Shaw Pong Liu to create performances that play with language, compose sound, devise theatre, and engage community partners to tell stories.
How do we hear those who are not with us? How do we speak to those who do not see us?
Shaw Pong and Obehi will explore the process of communicating personal stories as well as the history and experiences of our community. Final works incorporated theatre, spoken text, contemporary improvisation, live musical performance and digital sound works.
Obehi Janice is a writer, actress and comedian based in Los Angeles. She has written for Castle Rock on Hulu and an upcoming series on HBO. She plays Heather Culbreth on FXX's CAKE and is currently developing a pilot with Big Beach TV. You can see her face on a screen at the National Museum of Natural History talking about the lessons learned from dinosaur extinction.
Boston-based violinist Shaw Pong Liu creates performance collaborations which interplay improvised music, narration and audience interaction.