This Is A Manifesto
by Jump-Start Performance Company
Jan. 27, 2018
From panzas to prisons, from street theatre to large-scale multimedia performances, from princess to chafa - Virginia Grise writes plays that are set in bars without windows, barrio rooftops, and lesbian bedrooms.
Join us and welcome Virginia Grise as she opens Jump-Start's 2018 season with readings and performances alongside San Antonio artists. They will share their original manifestos developed through a week-long process of exploring artistic practices rooted in the politics of imagining a better world.
San Antonio participating artists include Alicia Gallegos, Ruth Mini, Bianca Flores, Joy Jimenez, Holly Nanes, Jes Bal, Jo Reyes Boitel, David Zamora Casas, Clint Taylor and Adela C. Arellano.
Published work by Virginia Grise includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press). Virginia is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, Yale Drama Series Award, the Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing, and is currently a member of Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab. Virginia holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from California Institute of the Arts and currently lives and writes in the Bronx.
Jump-Start Performance Co. is dedicated to the discovery and support of new ideas in the arts and arts education. By encouraging visionary thought and non-traditional approaches, Jump-Start is committed to the creation of art that is a lasting voice of diverse cultures and communities.
Jump-Start Performance Co. acknowledges with gratitude the following funders: City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, Texas Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, G.A.C. Halff Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, King William Association, Family Endeavors, theFund, and our many individual donors.
This Is A Manifesto
by Virginia Grise and San Antonio Artists
Jump-Start Performance Company
