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Following select performances of In the Body of the World, audience members are invited to attend ‘Beyond the Stage’, a series of curated post-show discussions led by a group of artists, medical professionals, scholars and activists in support of the play.

Talkback with with Lilian Ajayi-Ore (President of GC4W, African Diaspora Specialist), Sarah Bou-Rhodes (Doctors Without Borders, DRC Career Manager) & Anya Pearson (Actress, Playwright) on 2/20/18:

Lilian Ajayi-Ore is the Founder and Chief Executive Office of the Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W), an award-winning not-for-profit organization headquartered in New York City, with a reach of 3.5 million people worldwide, one of the leading international non-profits of the millennium in the areas of gender equality, women empowerment and youth empowerment. She is a current doctorate student at the University of Pennsylvania GSE. She has a degree in International Relations from Harvard University and served on the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations. Lilian is currently a University Professor at NYU SPS.

Doctors Without Borders - Sarah Bou-Rhodes began her field work with MSF, an international medical humanitarian organization, in 2012. She started as an administrator working in a series of refugee camps in South Sudan and in a hospital in southern Afghanistan. During her most recent missions she worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Iraq as a capital-based HR coordinator, developing and implementing field HR policies. She currently works with MSF in New York as a career manager, placing staff in assignments worldwide. She holds a BA in International Studies with Political Science and an MA in Conflict Studies and Peacebuilding.

Anya Pearson is an accomplished actress, playwright, poet, producer, and activist. Anya is the inaugural winner of the prestigious $10,000 Voice is a Muscle Grant from the Corporeal Voices Foundation run by best-selling author Lidia Yuknavitch. Her choreopoem, Made to Dance in Burning Buildings, will be presented at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater on April 24, 2018. Made to Dance in Burning Buildings is a fusion of poetry, theatre, and violent and visceral contemporary dance poses the question: how do we heal from trauma? She is also producing a documentary, which follows her passionate quest to empower other survivors and dissects rape culture as a whole.

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IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD
New York premiere written and performed by Eve Ensler
Directed by Diane Paulus
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The Tony Award-winning author, performer and activist Eve Ensler, whose The Vagina Monologues is an international sensation, comes to MTC with a powerful new play based on her critically acclaimed memoir. While working with women suffering from the ravages of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ensler was stunned by a life-threatening diagnosis. Told with her signature brand of humor, Ensler’s personal journey uncovers surprising connections between her body and the earth and how illness can be both transformative and transcendent. Directing this bold, unflinching and inspiring piece is Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin).
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Check the calendar or buy tickets at BodyOfTheWorldPlay.com
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