Donja R. Love, left, in rehearsal for “one in two.” (Photo by Ahron R. Foster)
NEW YORK CITY: Write It Out!, a writing workshop for people living with HIV, has announced a presentation of short plays written by its 2024 cohort. The staged reading will take place at the LGBT Center on Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
In 2019, playwright Donja R. Love created the workshop as a brave space for people living with HIV. During the 10-week workshop, participants are taught to craft their own short plays using their personal experiences. The plays are brought to life each year around World AIDS Day as part of a celebratory final showing.
More than reframing the narrative around what it means to be living with HIV, the workshop aims to build community, warmth, and joy for a group of people who have often been left out in the cold. It also seeks to strengthen participants’ artistic voices and to transform society and the theatrical landscape into a more equitable and stigma-free space for people living with HIV and AIDS.
Love is the author of soft (MCC), one in two (The New Group), Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company), Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club), what will happen to all that beauty?, I Need Space (The New Group), and the trade.
Write It Out! is funded by support from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, GLAAD, the Each Other Project, the Terrence McNally Foundation, and ViiV Healthcare.
For more information or to RSVP, visit letswriteitout.com.
