Walter Byongsok Chon, assistant professor of dramaturgy and theatre studies, published his article “The New Colossus Project: A Model for Rapid Response Theatre Around Immigration,” co-authored with devised theatre specialist Joan Lipkin, in LMDA’s Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy Volume XXVII, Issue I, Winter 2021.
“This article presents a collaborative method for devising around the issue of immigration, based on The New Colossus Project, a workshop created by Joan Lipkin and developed with Walter Byongsok Chon, which we offered at Ithaca College in March 2017. The project uses the Statue of Liberty in New York and the poem The New Colossus (1883), the Petrarchan sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus at the base of the Statue of Liberty, as primary source material and inspiration for devising. It is designed for students as well as community groups to create image work with their bodies, interweave their family’s immigration stories if applicable, and devise original pieces that ask questions about the past, present, and future of immigration in the United States as well as about the participants’ relationship with the land on which they stand.”
It is available on: https://lmda.org/review (p. 19 - 29)