Poetic Theater Productions veteran focused programming continues in this year’s festival with Veteran Voices 2019, a program that has previously featured poetry, readings, theater, and music by more than 40 veterans and family members creating art together and a post show discussion about the ways New York can further support existing and new veteran voice programming. The event is a merging of Poetic Theater Productions’ former annual Kicking Down Doors program curated by Jenny Pacanowski and Everett Cox (launched in the 2016 Poetic License Festival) and the Veteran Voices program initiated in the fall of 2017 (in collaboration with Consequence Magazine, Warrior Writers, War Literature & The Arts, and the Veteran Artist Program) presented with the 3-week run of J.A. Moad II’s production of Outside Paducah: The Wars At Home.

Curated by Jenny Pacanowski, J.A. Moad II, and Jeremy Karafin

Presented as a part of Poetic License: Resilience

Veteran Voices 2019 featured:

Monique Arucci, Tammy Barlet, Jan Barry, James Edward Becton, Omar Columbus, Everett Cox, Danny Lama, Paul Lee with Matt Park, Corinna Louise, Sarah N. Mess, Phil Milio with Julie Geisler, J.A. Moad II, Jenny Pacanowski, Drew Pham, Donna Zephrine

and a reading of Porch Sessions – The Girls of Iraq
written by Jenny Pacanowski
featuring Monique Arrucci, Stacey Bell, Adrienne Brammer, Mary Jo McConnell, and James P. Stanton

Lighting Design by Daisy Long, Projections by Lisa Renkel & Brian Pacceli, Audio Engineering by Sean Hagerty, Technical Direction by Ori Bensimhon, Stage Management by Ellen Mischinski