https://xitter.cf/t.co/rChyQJIFnQ Writer, lyricist, translator, and audiobook producer 🇵🇭🇺🇸
New York, USA
Joined July 2013
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Getting published in the Oxford American was an actual dream come true. Check out my (very short) story on their website!
“When it came time for Georgeann to downsize, she moved to a house she referred to as The Chalet.”
—In “The Faithful,” @allisondlight explores aging, spontaneity, and religion. Read the full short story from the #SouthernLit Issue at the link.
Art: Catherine Panebianco
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Congratulations 2021 @bmi_mt_workshop Award Winners: Allison Light, Mark-Eugene Garcia, Lorrie Doriza, Jared Corak, Diana Lawrence & Steve Wallace. bmifoundation.org/.../2021bm…...
Applications for the first year of the Composer/Lyricist Workshop due August 1 bmi.com/theatre_workshop
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can't wait for school plays again so we can get more moments like when my friend played Peter Pan
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ootwfestival.com/scratchnigh…, next Tuesday, an extract of Allison Light´s "Cooking Up Men" ("Cocinar Hombres"), together with fragments of other authors' plays, all from emerging translators.
I'm so thrilled that @Outofthewings is presenting an excerpt from my thesis translation of the wonderful @carmenboullosa's play "Cocinar Hombres" next Tuesday for their Emerging Theatre Translators Night! Check out the thread here for the line-up & link to the free Zoom event.
Drum roll! Announcing the ten translators, playwrights and extracts we’ll be sharing at our emerging theatre translators scratch night, online at @OmnibusTheatre, on Tue Feb 23! In alphabetical order... [thread...]
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Thank you to the student org “Black Justice League” for laying the foundation for this essential change. Your work was never in vain 💙
The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college. bit.ly/2YCctPR
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I had a professor who always talked about "the necessity of existence." Basically, some things should be created just so that thing will exist in the world.
So here's a thread to RT anytime some1 responds to #BlackLivesMatter with "but black on black crime" like this yahoo.
"You're violating curfew." According to www1.nyc.gov/assets/counselt…, "food deliveries are essential under the ESDC guidance." Police aren't required to and don't know the laws they're enforcing.
This delivery guy thought he’s an essential worker, police seemed to disagree. The rules issued before the curfew very unclear but according to the state, restaurants, bar & food industry workers are classified as essential. #nycurfew #NYCPolice
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We no longer need to engage in hypothetical "what ifs."
White protestors, armed with rifles, aggressively confront the police to defend their right to a speedy haircut.
Nothing.
Unarmed Black protestors congregating at the site of a police murder.
Tear gas and riot police
y’all are still surprised that oscars noms are all for white dudes?? One of the biggest movies of the year is literally called THE IRISH MAN
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I stand with the Little Rock teachers making their voices heard for collective bargaining rights. We should be strengthening the voices of teachers in our public schools. apnews.com/39295e05ab344e8f8…
Have you ever wondered, where is all the literary fiction addressing the very important topic of rubber duck collection? Wonder no more and read my first published short story, out from @CraftLiterary today!
New fiction! "My students love the ducks. My coworkers love the ducks. I, too, can learn to love the ducks. But I know the real reason. I can’t get rid of them because I know I may never have so much of one thing again."
—@allisondlight "Breathing for Two" buff.ly/2pcUS2c
Every food Insta account assumes I need a recipe to use up twelve summer squash and an overzealous basil plant from my garden, when I really need one to use up six cups of expiring sour cream and a rotting banana