HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
About the Playwrights:<\/p>\n
Sherry MacDonald<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning playwright from Vancouver, Sherry\u2019s plays have been staged in various cities in Canada and the U.S. and include\u00a0The Seduction Theory,\u00a0Hot Milk,\u00a0The Stone Face,\u00a0The Duchess of Alba,\u00a0Iraqi Karaoke,\u00a0Cowgirl Jane,\u00a0Til Death Do Us Part\u00a0and\u00a0The Black Shawl. Her current project is a musical titled\u00a0Ballad of Ballantyne Pier, for which she also wrote the song lyrics. A filmmaker, her short films have been screened locally and internationally and include\u00a0Blindspot\u00a0and\u00a0Iraqi Karaoke\u00a0(based on her stage play). Sherry is also a fiction writer and an educator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and her work is published by Anvil Press.<\/p>\nAsta Hokamaa<\/strong> is a playwriter and dramaturgy living in Helsinki. She graduated with a masters of theater art 2012 from Theater University of Helsinki. Since that she has been working as a freelancer in the theater field. She has been writing plays and performance scripts as well. Asta is also a performance dramaturgy and director. Right now, she is writing a movie script. She has been teaching writing and worked with vulnerable groups like prisoners. As she continues to write, Asta is very interested in the structures of plays and its totally fantastic try to find \u201cright\u201d ones each of plays. Themes which she explores are for example Non Violent communication, double standards, cognitive distortions, soul of city, nagging\u2026
She is a great fan of natural waters and swimming around the seasons at the sea. Asta has a lovely dachshund and her hobbies are volunteering work at the streets, yoga and gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"event_listing_type":[168,166,157,164],"class_list":["post-4920","event_listing","type-event_listing","status-expired","hentry","event_listing_type-englanniksi","event_listing_type-esteeton","event_listing_type-keskustelut-ja-haastattelut","event_listing_type-verkossa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirjallisuuskalenteri.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_listing\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirjallisuuskalenteri.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirjallisuuskalenteri.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event_listing"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirjallisuuskalenteri.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirjallisuuskalenteri.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_listing_type?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}