YouTube! Reproductive Freedom: Streaming Sign Language Performance
Arizona Theatre Matters presents a streamed performance of Reproductive Freedom is What We Want from ReproFreedomArts.org with Deaf Sign Language performer Nehemiah Danjuma
Watch here: https://tinyurl.com/yfcdkcf9
Directed by Jeanmarie Simpson and Ololade Adekanmi
Voice Actors: Diana Kimetto, Marcus Brown, Janet Eng, Bradford Gray, Christina Mathews, Emmy Cuthbert, Nona Isaacson, Ariana Wilber, and Mariana Brubaker.
Works by: June Jordan, Judith Arcana, Dr. Emilie Townes, Mary Anne Sorrentino, Michael David Quinn, Angela Bonavoglia, Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, Cindy Cooper, Dr. Susan Wicklund, Charlotte Taft, Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, Florynce Rae Kennedy, Alix Olson, The Hippy Nuts
Review — Reproductive Freedom Is What We Want: A Bold Call To Action by Kitty Roberts
Blog: How It Was Made — Online Theater: Universal Access Elevates Repro Freedom Performance
Broadway World — Video: Virtual Production REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM IS WHAT WE WANT Out Now
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ReproEco: Six Short Plays with Dance
NYC: Sept 19 and 20, 2025 CultureLab LIC, Long Island City, Queens
In conjunction with MultiStages, Lorca Peress, Artistic Director, Culture Lab LIC, six short plays connecting reproductive freedom and environmental justice with three dance works choreographed by Jennifer Chin.
At CultureLab LIC, 5-25 46th Ave., Long Island City, Queens.
Presented with support from the Puffin Foundation
Read more about ReproEco here
Contact us for readings before your group or organization: reprofreedomarts@gmail.com
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Democracy Writes! Nov 22, 1 pm NYC
A Fall of Freedom Project
A free, prompt-based writing workshop followed by an open mic, special readings and displays, all in celebration of free speech, diversity, democracy and reproductive freedom. In support of FallofFreedom.com, a national outpouring of artists in support of freedom.
Write, Share, Listen
USING THE POWER OF OUR WORDS
A Fall of Freedom Event
at Prime Produce Guild Hall
424 W. 54 Street
Saturday November 22, 2025
1 pm to 3 pm
New York City
Read more here
A collaboration with Rhonda Zangwill, writing teacher; Yuko Kudo, visual artist and Prime Produce host; Chaski (Saskia Knowles) Cybernetics Library organizer, ReproFreedomArts.org, and Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative.
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Audio! The Comstock Act Rises Again
Five actors and one lawyer read and dissect The Comstock Act from 1873, a zombie law now being used to attack our access to abortion pills.
Listen on SoundCloud.
Listen on YouTube.
Actors: Abigail Ramsay, Michelle Liu, Alinca Hamilton, Isabella Gallegos, Carl H. Jaynes
And lawyer Farah Diaz-Tello, Senior Counsel and Legal Director at If/When/How Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
Janet Bentley, director and creative director; Cindy Cooper, writer; Andy Evan Cohen, music; Roly Poly Productions, producer.
Read more: Audio: Actors Dissect Comstock Law and Threat to Abortion Pills
Listen to a discussion and recording: WBAI, Joy of Resistance with Fran Luck
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Reproductive Freedom Walking Tours
Reproductive rights are being challenging by the Supreme Court and conservative forces. We’re going to keep fighting!
We look at the past, present and future of reproductive freedom — with the latest on national developments and what you can do! Hear about some of the heroes who fought for our rights, and some of the people who have stood in our way (yes, Anthony Comstock is one).
We begin in Lower Manhattan near City Hall, and walk through Tribeca, Soho and Greenwich Village. We’re joined by an ReproFreedomArts.org actor who presents key selections along the way, and a guide with knowledge about reproductive freedom and its history.
Read more.
Listen to this story about the Reproductive Freedom Walking Tour on WNYC/NPR.
To book your walk email reprofreedomarts@gmail.com
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Virtual ReproEco by Transformation Theater (DC) 2025
October 14, 2025
Six short plays commissioned by ReproFreedomArts about the intersection of reproductive health and environmental justice! followed by a talkback with artists and creatives.
Read more at Transformation Theatre, Carl Randolph, Founder and Artistic Director; Heidi Castle-Smith, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director
Read a blog post about the genesis of ReproEco: ReproEco Virtual Theater: Writing About Toxins, Then Real Life by Laura Shamas
Read more about ReproEco here.
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ReproEco Intersections: Reproductive and Environmental Justice Through Storytelling 2025
Sept 6 2025
How can art address the intimate connections between reproductive freedom and environmental justice?
The Puffin Foundation in its new Brooklyn gallery hosts a discussion about ReproEco by Cindy Cooper of ReproFreedomArts.org and Alinca Hamilton
Always Never Really Here by Alinca Hamilton, who reads it with Gena Bardwall, directed by Lorca Peress, Artistic Director of MultiStages
Followed by a discussion about reproductive justice and the importance of the arts with Trae Banuelos, Reproductive Justice consultant and Executive Director of the Abortion Conversations Project.
Puffin/Brooklyn https://www.puffinfoundation.org/puffin-brooklyn/
Read more on our blog: Reproductive and Environmental Justice Come Alive In Storytelling
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ReproEco in Wisconsin
March-April 2025
Theatrical storytelling that explores the intersection of reproductive health and environmental justice!
A Live Performance Series of Six ReproEco Plays created and developed by ReproFreedomArts.org in LaCrosse, Wisconsin
March 8, March 20, April 2, April 5 and April 24: see the full schedule and locations here. Talkbacks by local environmental and healthcare professionals.
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ReproEco: Six Short Plays on Stage
October 4 and 5, 2024
Six playwrights probe the intersection of reproductive freedom and environmental justice.
A collaboration of ReproFreedomArts.org, MultiStages Theatre and Goddard Riverside Community Arts Program. Six powerful short plays about our health, our bodies, communities, our future, and how we can survive environmental hazards.
Directed by Joyce Griffen, Lorca Peress and Allison Astor-Vargas. Featuring Gena Bardwell, Jean Brookner, Darlenis Duran, Joyce Griffen, Nina Mehta, Tanis Parenteau, Abigail Ramsay, Marc Reign and Celeste Sena
At Goddard Riverside Community Arts Program
Meet the Writers: Diane Breeser, Cindy Cooper, Alinca Hamilton, Mildred Inez Lewis, Cassandra Medley, Laura Shamas
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Watch!
WE DISSENT: VOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
on YouTube
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Merit Award! Documentaries Without Borders International Film Festival, Social Issues US
Official Selection! New York Arthouse Film Festival
Nominee! New York Independent Cinema Awards
Part of NYU Artists in Action, Art for Change Festival, Dec 2024
WE DISSENT! Voices for Reproductive Rights
“With sorrow … we dissent!”
Virtual Launch
Twelve actors come together in WE DISSENT: VOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS to offer a dramatic rendition of the dissenting opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson.
The dissent, written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, explains all that is wrong with the callous and misguided decision to overturn the Constitutional right to abortion after 50 years!
The truths that they deliver offer hope for the future.
In the recording of our Virtual Launch, the 20-minute audio-visual segment is followed by a discussion with activist experts from ReproAction.
Watch the recording of the virtual launch here.
Watch the We Dissent video here.
Read more: Multimedia: Creating ‘WE DISSENT: Voices for Reproductive Rights’
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Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom. Download to your device or order in paperback. “Pure gold” –Literary Mgr
Livestream our DVD:
Words of Choice on film In addition to performances, see classic video clips from marches and events in reproductive freedom history!
Campaign for Artists Banned for Mentioning Abortion
Details here. Listen on WBAI, Joy of Resistance Radio
ABORTION WRITES!
Write Your Own Story! Storytellers Unite!
People lifting their pens and raising their voices!
Nov 13 2022
Sponsored by NYWriters Coalition, Housing Works Bookstore & 
ReproFreedomArts.org. Read more on our blog!
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Plays that Explore the Path Breaking Journeys of Women Doctors and their Patients, with donations to Medical Students for Choice … featuring Claudia Schneider and Alinca Hamilton
The Goddess of Hygieia — Dr. Harriot Hunt engages Edmonia Lewis to sculpt Hygieia, by Ms. Michael angel Johnson
The Prize — eye surgeon Dr. Patricia Bath convinces a patient to use the laser surgery she has invented, by Cindy Cooper
The Siege — a reproductive health doctor withstands harassment to show up for patients by, Dr. Susan Wicklund
We Have Always Done This– a poem by Judith Arcana
directed by Francesca Mantani Arkus
followed by a short discussion on Girls in STEM by consultant Anita Kishore and on Narrative Medicine by writer and teacher Catherine Rogers
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Now: On Theatre, Activism and Repro Freedom, a podcast by Theatre Revolution, Writer’s Block
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She warned us!
Righteous Words from Justice Sotomayor, now on Soundcloud or on YouTube.
After the state of Texas passed an extreme anti-abortion law known as SB8, the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court looked the other way and permitted SB8 to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not agree. Here’s what she had to say! Recorded in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson. On SoundCloud or on YouTube.
Read our blog, Listen to the Righteous Words of Justice Sonia Sotomayor on SB8
Performed by Abigail Ramsay, directed by Francesca Mantani Arkus, audio engineering and sound design by Janet Bentley.
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POETRY READING ON ZOOM
October 25, 2022! Poetry Babes and ReproFreedomArts: A Reading to Benefit Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central and Southern New Jersey.
Featuring Marina Carreira, Lynne McEniry, Kathy Kremins, Claudia Cortese, Grisel Y. Acosta, PaulA Neves, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, and Tamara Zbrizher
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StatueFest … Put A Woman on A Pedestal! A celebration of women who deserve a statue, in collaboration with New Shokan Kitchen Island Project. June 4 and 5, 2022, outdoors, in Figment at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island. Read more.
Prior: Live on Stage, Sept 30 and Oct 1 2021 in Manhattan; Zoom performances, March, April, May, June 2021. 25 writers, 26 performers … all with monologues about a wide diversity of women who deserve statues. Read more about the history of the project our blog.
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Please see our Events at a Glance as well as a list of Past Performances to see where we’ve been and where we’re going!
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ReGeneration: Our Reproductive Freedom Then & Now
“Gen Z” and “Gen Roe” come together to create a groundbreaking virtual performance piece about our Reproductive Freedom over time (August 26, 2020).
Watch on YouTube
Six GenZers, 16-23 years old, interview six people who marched and wrote and advocated for reproductive freedom and social justice in the decades past, and create monologues. A fresh take that shares our dreams and hopes for reproductive freedom, justice and human rights. 
Selections:
We have always done this by Judith Arcana, performed by Jaye Austin Williams
Thoughts from Charlotte by Elliot Stewart, performed by Elliot Stewart
Under Construction by Aleina Dume, performed by Julissa Roman
Further by Isabella Gallegos, performed by Isabella Gallegos
The Heart of Abortion and Other Love Stories by Charlotte Taft and Shelley Oram, performed by Charlotte Taft
A Come to Jesus Moment by Emory Kemph, performed by Emory Kemph
3 Notes to Hold Each Other by Ava Elizabeth Novak, performed by Ava Elizabeth Novak
You Can Sit Anywhere by Cassandra Medley, performed by Dawn Elizabeth
a love song by Manju Bangalore, performed by Manju Bangalore
See the YouTube playlist, or get links to individual Zoom selections on YouTube
See Who’s Who Cast, Interview Partners, Artistic team at this link.
Post Show discussion with: Aleina Dume (Gen Z), Tracia Banuelos (Board, Abortion Conversation Projects), Shireen Rose Shakouri (Campaign Manager, ReproAction)
Alinca Hamilton, Workshop Leader, Director; Stacey Linnartz, Workshop Leader, Coach;
Produced by Cindy Cooper; Declan Zhang, Zoom Producer, Sound Consultant; Emory Kemph, PR, Graphics and Social Media.
Read on Broadway World; Read on Up the Creativity Blog
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We were proud to cosponsor of Say Their Names, an evening of Plays and Monologues by BIPOC Honor Roll! Playwrights, about Black, Indigenous and Women of Color, including Latinx women, who died at the hands of law enforcement. Watch an archive on our FACEBOOK page.
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READINGS, RESILIENCE, AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM!
A Virtual Event. Artists and Advocates Respond in a Time of Crisis
A Virtual Event via ZOOM with the National Institute for Reproductive Health — actors, writers and activists.
The Progressive: Staging a Defense of Reproductive Rights
Watch selections on our YouTube playlist! Get links to individual selections on YouTube.
Actors and presenters: Dr. Grisel Acosta, Cait Cortelyou, Kimiye Corwin, Alinca Hamilton, Yvette Heyliger, Crista Marie Jackson, Carl H. Jaynes, Stacey Linnartz, directed by Francesca Mantani Arkus. Co-produced by Cindy Cooper.
Writers: Jacqueline E. Lawton, Dr. Grisel Acosta, Melissa Bell, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, June Jordan, Dr. Susan Wicklund, Marge Piercy, Esosa Edosomwan, Mary Ann Sorrentino, Jessica Feder-Birnbaum, Florynce Rae Kennedy and Alix Olson.
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