John Freedman
@johnfreedman100.bsky.social
Writer, translator, founder/curator of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and the Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project
Amazing place. Someone is going to the effort to publish the names & faces of ICE officers & fake ICE officers, including the license plates of their vehicles. All these guys are mere criminal kidnappers. If someone is making videos of the thugs, this is a place you can send your work. icelist.info
ICE List – No genuine police force needs a mask
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June 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Amazing place. Someone is going to the effort to publish the names & faces of ICE officers & fake ICE officers, including the license plates of their vehicles. All these guys are mere criminal kidnappers. If someone is making videos of the thugs, this is a place you can send your work. icelist.info
Dmitry Bykov's powerful, unorthodox book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his place in history, and his battles with Vladimir Putin, is now published by @openletterbooks.bsky.social. It was a pleasure and honor to translate this important, provocative study.
June 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Dmitry Bykov's powerful, unorthodox book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his place in history, and his battles with Vladimir Putin, is now published by @openletterbooks.bsky.social. It was a pleasure and honor to translate this important, provocative study.
The Guardian on The Reckoning: Dash Arts at Arcola Theatre in London, by Anastasiia Kosodii & Josephine Burton.
"...shattering anecdotes ... which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes."
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"...shattering anecdotes ... which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes."
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The Reckoning review – shattering stories of invasion in Ukraine
The horrific reality of Russia’s invasion is recounted during the preparation of a Ukrainian salad in Anastasiia Kosidii and Josephine Burton’s play
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June 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The Guardian on The Reckoning: Dash Arts at Arcola Theatre in London, by Anastasiia Kosodii & Josephine Burton.
"...shattering anecdotes ... which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
"...shattering anecdotes ... which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes."
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Opening tonight at the Tank in NYC, runs June 6, 7, 9. Plays by young Ukrainian playwrights Asia Pshenychna and Taya Fedorenko.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Opening tonight at the Tank in NYC, runs June 6, 7, 9. Plays by young Ukrainian playwrights Asia Pshenychna and Taya Fedorenko.
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Dmytro Ternovyi on Ukrainian radio where he talked about his work with Center for International Theatre Development, Voyage Theater Company and Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga via the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine. Eng subs available.
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May 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dmytro Ternovyi on Ukrainian radio where he talked about his work with Center for International Theatre Development, Voyage Theater Company and Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga via the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine. Eng subs available.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0en...
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Today in SF. Helena Petrovska's Fish Don't Cry, about the catastrophe at Marioupol.
From the producers: "The show will be held at the JCC San Francisco. Entrance to the auditorium at Fisher Family Hall in the foyer. Parking on the street or in underground parking lot."
From the producers: "The show will be held at the JCC San Francisco. Entrance to the auditorium at Fisher Family Hall in the foyer. Parking on the street or in underground parking lot."
May 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Today in SF. Helena Petrovska's Fish Don't Cry, about the catastrophe at Marioupol.
From the producers: "The show will be held at the JCC San Francisco. Entrance to the auditorium at Fisher Family Hall in the foyer. Parking on the street or in underground parking lot."
From the producers: "The show will be held at the JCC San Francisco. Entrance to the auditorium at Fisher Family Hall in the foyer. Parking on the street or in underground parking lot."
Hanna Komar on The Reckoning by Josephine Burton and Anastasiia Kosodii for Dash Arts at the Arcola Theatre in London. In rep to the end of June.
"I went to The Reckoning. The play lets us experience conversations & questions familiar to those who are following events in Ukraine. I recommend it!"
"I went to The Reckoning. The play lets us experience conversations & questions familiar to those who are following events in Ukraine. I recommend it!"
May 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hanna Komar on The Reckoning by Josephine Burton and Anastasiia Kosodii for Dash Arts at the Arcola Theatre in London. In rep to the end of June.
"I went to The Reckoning. The play lets us experience conversations & questions familiar to those who are following events in Ukraine. I recommend it!"
"I went to The Reckoning. The play lets us experience conversations & questions familiar to those who are following events in Ukraine. I recommend it!"
June 6, 7 and 9 in NYC at the Tank: Laura Cahill's Young Playwrights Ukraine present new plays by Asia Pschenychna and Karina Syrota.
May 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
June 6, 7 and 9 in NYC at the Tank: Laura Cahill's Young Playwrights Ukraine present new plays by Asia Pschenychna and Karina Syrota.
Blair Ruble’s latest Arts of War blog about Ukrainian theater in London!
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The Arts of War | citdus
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May 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Blair Ruble’s latest Arts of War blog about Ukrainian theater in London!
Read it at: www.citd.us/arts-of-war
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Read it at: www.citd.us/arts-of-war
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2nd article about Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES projects, this one a conversation among Carolyn Dunn, Dave White, and Nina Zakhozhenko in the LINKAGES: Ukraine project. + translator Taya Fedorenko of Young Playwrights Ukraine project.
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Documenting the Art of Playwriting in Times of Crisis with LINKAGES: Ukraine
|John Freedman, Carolyn Dunn, Nina Zakhozhenko, David WhiteAs part of the LINKAGES: Ukraine program, Ukranian and US American playwrights come together to discuss their work, methods, worries, and str...
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May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
2nd article about Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES projects, this one a conversation among Carolyn Dunn, Dave White, and Nina Zakhozhenko in the LINKAGES: Ukraine project. + translator Taya Fedorenko of Young Playwrights Ukraine project.
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My essay on CITD LINKAGES projects. We are all humbled to have the opportunity to carry on the great work of the legendary Philip Arnoult via his Center for International Theatre Development (CITD).
A companion piece I put together will appear any time now.
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A companion piece I put together will appear any time now.
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CITD’s LINKAGES Projects Help Artists Stand Strong in Difficult Times
|John FreedmanThe Center for International Theatre Development’s LINKAGES programs foster long-term personal connections among artists. LINKAGES: Ukraine program director, John Freedman, details the p...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My essay on CITD LINKAGES projects. We are all humbled to have the opportunity to carry on the great work of the legendary Philip Arnoult via his Center for International Theatre Development (CITD).
A companion piece I put together will appear any time now.
howlround.com/citds-linkag...
A companion piece I put together will appear any time now.
howlround.com/citds-linkag...
Voyage Theater hosts readings of works by Nina Zakhozhenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Marina Smilianets, Oleksandr Zhuhan & Polina Polozhentseva - May 8, 7 p.m. @ NY Public Library: Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) & Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv, w/ aid of Teatr na Zhukakh, Kharkiv.
April 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Voyage Theater hosts readings of works by Nina Zakhozhenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Marina Smilianets, Oleksandr Zhuhan & Polina Polozhentseva - May 8, 7 p.m. @ NY Public Library: Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) & Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv, w/ aid of Teatr na Zhukakh, Kharkiv.
April 26 & 27 - Ohio Northern University. Ukrainian director Anna Turlo directs short works by Oksana Savchenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Nina Zakhozhenko Olha Matsiupa and Maksym Kurochkin. Organized by Joan Robbins
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
April 26 & 27 - Ohio Northern University. Ukrainian director Anna Turlo directs short works by Oksana Savchenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Nina Zakhozhenko Olha Matsiupa and Maksym Kurochkin. Organized by Joan Robbins
Voyage Theater Company hosts readings of Ukrainian works @ New York Public Library, 53rd St. NYC, May 8, 7 p.m. Works to be determined this week. We bonded with artistic director Wayne Maugans working on the Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast last fall. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts...
A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions. Wayne Maugans: “The Peed-Upon Armoured Personnel Carrier”
In the third episode of “A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions” podcast, the renowned actor, director, and producer Wayne Maugans performs a reading of a short play “The Peed-Upon Armoured Personnel Carr...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Voyage Theater Company hosts readings of Ukrainian works @ New York Public Library, 53rd St. NYC, May 8, 7 p.m. Works to be determined this week. We bonded with artistic director Wayne Maugans working on the Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast last fall. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts...
Dmitry Bykov's incendiary book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone to the printers in my translation. Dmitry's dissection of Putinism, Russian society and patriotism is explosive. His mini-chapters on feces and kholodets (jellied meat) in Russian culture are hilarious, disturbing and stunning.
March 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Dmitry Bykov's incendiary book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone to the printers in my translation. Dmitry's dissection of Putinism, Russian society and patriotism is explosive. His mini-chapters on feces and kholodets (jellied meat) in Russian culture are hilarious, disturbing and stunning.
Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES: Ukraine/Theatrical Windows project - podcast reading of Anna Halas's play "Chronicles" + interview w/ Anna. Thanks: Garry Lee Posey, Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga and their Lights Up! project!
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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March 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES: Ukraine/Theatrical Windows project - podcast reading of Anna Halas's play "Chronicles" + interview w/ Anna. Thanks: Garry Lee Posey, Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga and their Lights Up! project!
Listen here:
shows.acast.com/etclightsup
Listen here:
shows.acast.com/etclightsup
Ira Kifa directs "Borscht" by Maryna Smilianets at Drayton Arms Theatre in London, March 18 to 22.
March 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ira Kifa directs "Borscht" by Maryna Smilianets at Drayton Arms Theatre in London, March 18 to 22.
Kateryna Penkova has been voted the new artistic director of The Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv.
March 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Kateryna Penkova has been voted the new artistic director of The Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv.
Necessity as the Mother of Invention | TDR | Cambridge Core
My retelling of my work on my two international play reading projects: Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project.
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My retelling of my work on my two international play reading projects: Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project.
- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Necessity as the Mother of Invention | TDR | Cambridge Core
My retelling of my work on my two international play reading projects: Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project.
- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My retelling of my work on my two international play reading projects: Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project.
- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga streams a reading of Dmytro Ternovyi's "On the Eve" in its Lights Up! podcast series - plus a conversation with the author. Made possible by a grant from Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)...
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ON THE EVE by Dmytro Ternovyi | LIGHTS UP!
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March 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga streams a reading of Dmytro Ternovyi's "On the Eve" in its Lights Up! podcast series - plus a conversation with the author. Made possible by a grant from Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)...
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Yes. I ask Charles III to cancel his invitation for the American president to visit London. He is not to be trusted. He will steal the silverware, believe me.
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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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March 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yes. I ask Charles III to cancel his invitation for the American president to visit London. He is not to be trusted. He will steal the silverware, believe me.
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
Garry Posey of Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga chats with Brandice Thompson and me, representing the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) about our Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine...
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The Linkages Effect: CITD’s Mission in Ukraine and Beyond | LIGHTS UP!
with John Freedman and Brandice Thompson
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February 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Garry Posey of Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga chats with Brandice Thompson and me, representing the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) about our Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine...
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Join the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) mailing list and keep up on all the projects we are doing with Ukrainian, Polish and Hungarian artists and more. Art and sanity - two goals and two tools of CITD.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Join the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) mailing list and keep up on all the projects we are doing with Ukrainian, Polish and Hungarian artists and more. Art and sanity - two goals and two tools of CITD.
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The first of 3 Lights Up! podcasts features Garry Posey, Caleb Sexton, Brandice Thompson and me on collaborations among Center for the International Theatre Development (CITD), Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga, Ukrainian writers Dmytro Ternovyi, Anna Halas &c. Listen: feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
LIGHTS UP!LIGHTS UP!The Linkages Effect: CITD’s Mission in Ukraine and BeyondONE NIGHT STAN by Adam SzudrichBROKEN by James MclindonCOME BACK MISS CALLIOPE by Alan KilpatrickA ZILLION PIECES by Germaine ShamesTHE PROPHET by Rebecca DzidaTWANG by Cris Eli BlakTHERAPEUTIC by Leticia ArbeloWORDS TO THAT EFFECT by FJ HartlandALASKAN ASSASSINS by Harrison YoungTHREE SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT by John MabeySEAL ISLAND by John Patrick BrayHANDS FROM THE FIRE by Cris Eli BlakTHE MAMA AND THE PAPAMOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS by F.J. HartlandFRAGILE by Dana Leslie GoldsteinWATER MUSIC by Arianna RoseTHE HUNCHBACK OF MARSHALL AVENUE by Randy Lee GrossFOR ALL WE KNOW by Rob DamesTHE ONES LEFT BEHIND by Rebecca DzidaHOLY HELL by Barbara LindsaySeason Three PreviewBONUS - TIGHTROPE by Rob SmithBONUS - GRENADINE by Neil WechslerBONUS - FOUR SHORTS by Garry Lee PoseyLights Up - Season Two Finale : The Monologues Point A to Point BSeason Two RecapLights Up 020 - Rosa and Leo by Adam SzudrichLights Up 018 - Tonight at the Stage Door by Donald LoftusLights Up 017 - Black, White, and Red All OverINSULTED BELARUS Act TwoINSULTED BELARUS Act OneINSULTED.BELARUSLights Up 016 - Vigilance by Mike SockolLights Up 015 - Bug RescuingLights Up 014 - Waiting For HelloIntermission Season 2Lights Up 013 - The Elusive Pursuit of Maximum BlissLights Up 012 - The God PartLights Up 011 - Survival StrategyLights Up - Season One FinaleLights Up 010 - Picking Up the ScentLights Up 009 - Circuit BreakerLights Up 008 - Bugs BunnyLights Up 007 - POPLights Up 006 - BrittleIntermission - Halfway PointLights Up 005 - EVOLLights Up 004 - The RentalLights Up 003 - To Fix a DinosaurLights Up 002 - Green SoundLights Up 001 - FINDING FATHERPreview-FunClips
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February 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The first of 3 Lights Up! podcasts features Garry Posey, Caleb Sexton, Brandice Thompson and me on collaborations among Center for the International Theatre Development (CITD), Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga, Ukrainian writers Dmytro Ternovyi, Anna Halas &c. Listen: feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
Basko, in a most intimate exchange with her husband, compellingly speaks for millions when she writes, “As the length of the war began to be measured in weeks, I became more and more resolved in my desire to stay here on our land.”
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As the Length of the War Began to be Measured in Weeks
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February 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Basko, in a most intimate exchange with her husband, compellingly speaks for millions when she writes, “As the length of the war began to be measured in weeks, I became more and more resolved in my desire to stay here on our land.”
www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/le...
www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/le...