Ep. 78: Jennifer Natalya Fink Talks ‘Bitter Flower’

This is the seventh in a series of podcast interviews about The 19th Amendment Project, a collection of plays commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre, the League of Women Voters of Wake County, and 12 other area theater companies, including the Gilbert Theater, which co-produced Jennifer Natalya Fink’s play Bitter Flower.

About the Guest

Jennifer Natalya Fink is the author of five acclaimed novels, including the Doctorow Prize-winning  Bhopal Dance. She is the author/deviser of 30+ performance works. Her long-running collaboration with Julie Laffin in “Toxic Tango” and “Underbelly” has been produced internationally. Fink is a Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University, where she is Director of the Program in Disability Studies. Her disability memoir, All Our Families: Finding Our Disability Lineages, is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2021. Fink received her PhD in Performance Studies from NYU and her MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

For more information visit:

Hear what the other 19th Amendment Project playwrights have to say about the collective of work.

Related Posts

The NRACT Production of FUN HOME Checks All the Boxes

The North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre production of FUN HOME is a testament as to why representation matters. Read Kim Jackson’s review of the show.

Read more

Stage Combat: A Mental Health Story Exposes Goodspeed’s Ghosts

Hear what Sean Hayden has to say about his own mental health story, the theater industry, and empowering others.

Read more

A Conversation with Amy Spanger (THE PROM)

Hear what Amy Spanger has to say about steping into the role of Dee Dee Allen in the Theatre Raleigh production of THE PROM.

Read more

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: