INYE WOKOMA
Stick Fly is the first performance of the 2016 Intiman Theatre Festival, which focuses on the work of black American women playwrights. Valerie Curtis-Newton, winner of a Stranger Genius Award, teamed up with Intiman to curate the festival. Her selections showcase an array of aesthetics among new and established playwrights. They also highlight older plays that deserve more attention.
“[The festival] is like the many facets of the diamond, in that you get to see a lot of different perspectives,” Curtis-Newton told me by phone. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”…
