5851 Nathan Benderson Circle
Sarasota
FL 34235
“Hermitage Sunsets @ Benderson Park: For the Love of Language”
with Hermitage Fellow Madeline Sayet
Madeline Sayet’s Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Terry Brackett.
Presented in partnership with Nathan Benderson Park Conservancy
Thursday, March 20 at 6:30pm
Nathan Benderson Park Finish Tower (entrance at 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota, FL 34235)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
Hermitage Fellow Madeline Sayet is a member of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut, where she was raised on a combination of traditional Mohegan stories and Shakespeare…both of which have influenced her work as a playwright, director, and performer. Kicking off the second season of Hermitage Sunsets @ NBP, this singular theater artist discusses her work – including the recent national tour of her one-person show Where We Belong – and how the love of language informs her creative process. Hear selections of Sayet’s works as the sun dips over the lake in Nathan Benderson Park.
Hermitage Fellow Madeline Sayet (she/her) is a playwright, director, and performer known throughout the theater world for her work in contemporary Native American theater and indigenizing Western classics. She is a citizen of the Mohegan Tribe, Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, and Clinical Assistant Professor with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at ASU. For her work as a theater maker, she has been honored as a Forbes “30-Under-30,” a TED Fellow, and a recipient of the White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. Her play Where We Belong, produced by the Washington, DC-based Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, recently completed a national tour.