The Mill

🇺🇦 Join us for Lucky Breaks Oct 20th for a talkback following the 5 pm performance at The Brick Theater! 🎟 https://bit.ly/Luckyinfo 🇺🇦 Featuring Katie Walker, Talkback Facilitator and NYC Metro-Regional VP for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Jennifer Wilson, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, PHD in Slavic Language and Literature.

Lucky Breaks is based on the critically acclaimed book by Yevgenia Belorusets

Jennifer Wilson is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously, she was a contributing writer at The New York Times Book Review where she reviewed Lucky Breaks. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University.

Katie Walker (Talkback Facilitator and NYC Metro-Regional VP for LMDA) is an NYC-based Dramaturg, Director and Playwright from Denver, Colorado. She has worked with many theatre companies including The Playwrights Realm, Normal Ave Productions, First Kiss Theatre Company, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Most recently, she directed Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit.: a Courtney Love Play by Brittyn Dion Bonham at the Rogue Theater Festival. Katie is the long-term dramaturg for Niagara: a New Musical by Lauren Widner, Ryan McCurdy, and James Rushin. She serves as NYC-Metro Regional VP for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and she assists the worldwide theatrical community as a Research Assistant in the Theatre on Film and Tape archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Katie’s New Play Exchange profile is available at https://newplayexchange.org/users/53625/katie-walker.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (Partnering Organization) was founded in 1985 as the volunteer membership organization for the professions of literary management and dramaturgy. LMDA is a not-for-profit tax-exempt organization with members throughout North America and abroad.LMDA holds the belief that theater is a vital art form that has the power to nourish, educate, and transform individuals and their communities and that dramaturgy is central to the process of theater-making.LMDA promotes the creation of stories that reflect a broad spectrum of authentic experiences in our diverse global community. LMDA membership is dedicated to fostering an environment of respect, celebrating difference, and seeing the principles. Learn more at https://lmda.org/about.