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2023 - 24 is YEAR 15 for the Goats!
Watch the video above to hear what we’ve done and where we’re headed.
Our Season
Untitled Ukraine Project
March 8 - 17, 2024
Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St.)
Untitled Ukraine Project is Goat in the Road Productions’ newest original play built in collaboration with Ukrainian New Orleanian Katya Chizhayeva.
The show will offer a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examine the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism. Through these lenses, the show offers New Orleans audiences a unique glimpse of life in war, and helps remind our community that the effects of this conflict move far beyond the Ukrainian borders.
The 15th annual Play/Write program is bringing year-long playwriting classes to 11 schools in the Greater New Orleans area. The program culminates in two Showcases of student plays performed by professional artists at Nunez Community College and the University of New Orleans (free admission).
Goat in the Schools, GRP’s touring production of student-written plays, will reach over 2,500 students this year.
Carlota is an original musical that will explore the life and descendants of Carlota Ruíz de González, a historical character created by Dr. Denise Frazier in 2018 as part of GRP’s immersive show, The Stranger Disease, and re-visited in the digital project, Sick Notes: Letters from the Epidemic.
GRP and Frazier are creating Carlota to explore the Cuba-NOLA connection, as well as our connection to those who have come before us. An invited showing will take place in May 2024.
The Walter Anderson Experience is an interactive audio guide for the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Oceans Springs, MS. The guide will illuminate the life and inspiration of the visual artist Walter Anderson, as well as those around him who influenced and made his work possible.
The Walter Anderson audio guide will premiere in June, 2024.
Play/Write 2023 - 24 has begun!
Play/Write video by Bruce France Media.
In 2023 - 24, GRP is conducting its fifteenth year of Play/Write!
In Orleans parish, teaching artists Shannon Flaherty, Eleanor Humphrey, Chris Kaminstein, and Richon May Wallace are working with 300 fifth & sixth grade students at:
International School of Louisiana
St. Mary’s Academy
Young Audiences Charter School- Kate Middleton
Young Audiences Charter School- Lawrence D. Crocker
And we are so excited to embark on year two of our partnership with St. Bernard Parish where we are working with 175 fifth grade students.
Participating schools include:
Arabi Elementary
Arlene Meraux Elementary
Chalmette Elementary
JF Gauthier Elementary
Joseph Davies Elementary
Lacoste Elementary
W. Smith Jr. Elementary School
And we are overjoyed to welcome two new members to the GRP team!
Eleanor Humphrey - Educational Associate
April Louise - Social Media Coordinator
Cassandra Erb
Grace Harmon
Nicholas Javon
Grace Kennedy
Alexandria Miles
Lisa Shattuck
KC Simms
NEW BOARD MEMBERS!
Constance Thompson
Cat Caldwell
Richon May Wallace
Jess Eugene
Kendric Perkins
Anneliese Singh
We are overjoyed to have these wonderful and talented folks join our team!
Thank you to all our funders and partners who make our work possible!
Operating support for Goat in the Road is provided by the Rouse Family Foundation, the Foundation for Louisiana, as well as the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s COHN|GNOF|NOLA ARTS Award Program. It is also funded by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.