Join us for the Process Series's 18th season, Rounding Home. 

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Thomas Wolfe’s famous assertion notwithstanding, in our 18th Season we do return home again to celebrate the work of local artists—including UNC professors Joy Goodwin (Screenwriting), Annette Lawrence (Art and Art History), Adam Versényi (Dramatic Art), and Lee Weisert (Music)—and earlier collaborators—including Guillermo Reyes (with whom I worked on Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown beginning three decades ago and who was part of the Process Series three years ago) and Versényi, who returns for our third Translation Festival presenting new translations of plays from Indonesia, Mallorca, Latvia, and Ancient Greece. Weisert, who has been an essential part of the Process Series for at least the last ten years, brings another new work; and performer and researcher Aviva Neff returns to North Carolina to explore being mixed black in contemporary America.

But this idea of “rounding home,” with apologies to baseball purists, implies that home plate might not necessarily be the endpoint. We are interested in returning home and also in thinking about ways forward, new ways of looking at ourselves in these challenging and troubling times.

It may be that I am especially interested in what comes after home plate because I will be retiring at the end of this season. As the founding artistic director of the Process Series, it is my hope that the past 18 years of exploration of new work together has not only given us a window into how we process our art, ourselves, and each other, but also provided us an opportunity to think about how we can ground ourselves at home and envision a better future. One thing I do know is that the essential and invaluable work of artists will continue to make us look at ourselves, continue to challenge our assumptions, and improve our ability to think about where we can go from here.

We can’t wait to share this season’s work with you—and see where it takes us.

Joseph Megel, Artistic Director