THE BLACK DIRT CYCLE

Between 2009 and 2011, I created a series of plays in New York's Black Dirt Region.  The plays explored immigration, local soil, and the stories of the men and women who grow and pick our food.  They have been performed at festivals, on farms, in farmers markets, and in migrant labor communities.

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WATER AND STONE (July, 2010)

Written by WILL MACADAMS and the community of WARWICK, NY
Directed by WILL MACADAMS
Choreography by MELISSA PADHAM
Produced  by the WARWICK SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL atop PENNINGS ORCHARD
Developed with the support of the W. ROGOWSKI FARM

THE LEGEND OF LUCIA ZENTENO 
LA LEYENDA DE LUCIA ZENTENO (January, 2011) 

Adapted from a poem by Alejandro Cruz Martínez and a Zapotec folk story of the same name
Created by students in WHEDCo (Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, Bronx, NY)
and students in the E.S.L. class at the Farm Workers Community Center (Warwick, NY)
Performed at P.S. 218

BOUNTIFUL (Summer - Fall, 2011)
Written and Performed by WILL MACADAMS
featuring a vegetable hat by GAR WANG and a wheelbarrow mural by GABY RAMIREZ
Inspired by job shadowing at the J & A Farm (Goshen, NY) and the Gonzalez Farm (Pine Island, NY)
Originally presented in July, 2011 at the WARWICK SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL

Additional presenting partners: People’s Theatre Project (NY), Greenmarkets GrowNYC  (NY), Vive tu Vida/Live your Life (NY), CitySeed and the Connecticut Mental Health Center (New Haven, CT), Clear Creek Festival (Berea, KY), Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA),
and the New York City Public Schools
Additional support for ‘Bountiful’ was generously provided by the NoMAA Regrant Program, made possible by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation