Alumna Nana Dakin ’18 directs Love Letter To A Seed, an illustrated letter, invitation, and audio experience. Dakin’s new play is a part of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship where early career directors are mentored by Anne Kaufman, Daniel Aukin, Niegel Smith and Laurie Wooler. Love Letter To A Seed is presented online as a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks 2021 festival.
Love Letter To A Seed is billed as
An illustrated letter, invitation, and audio experience
for climate activists, artists and concerned beings
who are weary
and sometimes hang their heads in despair
and nevertheless
keep on tending
together
Love Letter To A Seed released 100 letters, one to each of the first 100 people to sign up. The piece will be available for online viewing until the Spring Equinox, March 21, 2021. The piece is sold out for its Winterworks 2021 bow.
Dakin is a Thai American director of new work, classics and devised performance. Her work pursues social equity by examining the way culture is constructed and unsettling dormant biases. Her recent productions include White Pearl at The Royal Court Theatre, Mary Jane at New York Theatre Workshop, The Bacchae at BAM Next Wave 2018, Wild Goose Dreams at The Public Theater, and Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater. New work development includes Golden Shield by alumna Anchuli Felicia King ’18, and Half The Sky by composer Tidtaya Sinutoke and bookwriter/lyricist Isabella Dawis. She also directed an all-female production of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Dakin was a 2050 NYTW Directing Fellow in 2018/19.
