Ep. 80: Ariel Zetina Opens Up About Finding Patience in the Process and the Pageantry of Politics

Hear what Chicago-based artist Ariel Zetina has to say about women's rights, finding patience in the process, and the pageantry of politics.

This is the eighth 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.

Ariel Zetina is a Chicago based artist, focusing in music, deejaying, and writing. Plays include Pink Milk, Mechanisms of Fidelity, and British Honduras Fantasy [honorable mention on Kilroy List 2016 and Steppenwolf’s Mix list 2018]. She released her fourth EP “MUA’s at the End of the World” on the label Femme Culture in 2020, is a resident DJ at the legendary Chicago club Smartbar, and was commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre to create a play for the 19th Amendment Project. Zetina’s play Gerrymanderia premiered last month virtually and is available to stream through Sptember 30th. For more information visit: https://burningcoal.org/the-19th-gerrymanderia/.

Ariel Zetina’s EP “MUAS at the End of the World” is available to stream now on Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify. For more information visit: https://ffm.to/ariel-zetina-ep.

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Hear what the other 19th Amendment Project playwrights have to say to RDU on Stage about this collective of plays.