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Untitled by Korde Arrington Tuttle

Korde Arrington Tuttle's currently untitled play is an ensemble-driven investigation of the relationship between space exploration and the Middle Passage, of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Inspired by the Joint Stock Method, where work is generated by a non-hierarchically organized company, Korde and director, Stevie Walker-Webb, have organized a series of workshops. In the time between the winter workshops and the company's residency, in Vermont, the playwright has taken time to construct a story, and generate a brand new play. Korde is thrilled that JAGFest will be the very first public presentation of this new, company-based experiment

About JAGFest:
JAGFest 2.0 is a a weekend performing arts festival of new works all celebrating the talents of African-American playwrights and performing artists.

Presented February 9-11 at Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, VT. The weekend-long festival of play readings celebrates and explores diverse, new voices in American theater. JAGFest will include four staged readings over the course of three days, each featuring a post-show conversation with the playwrights, actors, and directors.

About the Playwright:
Korde Arrington Tuttle is a multi-disciplinary artist from Charlotte, NC and one of five playwrights chosen for the New Writers in Residence Program at Lincoln Center Theater. Recent work includes: clarity (Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival winner); the downside of being a fish, presented at The New School's AfroFuturism Conference 2015 and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, in collaboration with THE TENTH ZINE; graveyard shift (The New School); who is burning black churches? (The 24-Hour Plays: Nationals, 2015); and assembly (Harlem9s 6th Annual 48 Hours in Harlem). Korde is a Middle Voice Theatre Company member at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and is currently pursuing a MFA in Playwriting at The New School.