Broadway Climate SummiT

2025 Schedule

10:30 AM

Doors Open

11:00 AM

Panel : Creating Climate Theater: From Black Box to Broadway

Speakers:

  1. Davis McCallum - artistic director, Hudson Valley Shakespeare

  2. Amy Berryman - Playwright, Walden

  3. Opalanietet - Founder, The Eagle Project

  4. Robert Duffley - Dramaturg & Artistic Leader, LubDub theater co.

  5. Anna Jane JOyner - founder & ceo, good energy

short performance : excerpt from amy berryman’s Walden

12:15 pM

Panel : Artivism, shifting culture through creative practice

Speakers:

  1. Kevin J.Patel - Co-founder, oneupaction international

  2. Antonique SMith - star of rent on broadway, grammy nominee, founder of climate revival

  3. PAblo Hernandez Basulto - director of civic artistic programs, the public

  4. Ruth Łchav’aya K'isen Miller - singer, actor, climate justice and indigenous rights activist

  5. Nate SMith - founding director, 6th fest

short performance : excerpt from will arbrey’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

1:15 pM

Catered Lunch (For day pass holders)

2:00 pM

Panel / Workshop: Sustainable production and circular design

Speakers:

  1. Sandra Goldmark - Associate Dean, Columbia Climate School; Professor, Barnard College; Co-creator, sustainable production toolkit

  2. edward t. morris - Set Designer, Sustainability Consultant; Co-Chair, IATSE 829's Sustainability Committee

  3. molly braverman - Director, Broadway Green Alliance

  4. Davis Mccallum - artistic director, Hudson Valley Shakespeare

  5. Alexandros Barpayianis - Media & Entertainment Logistics Coordinator, Material for the arts (MFTA)

Workshop: compelling climate narrative

Led By

  1. Carson Grace Becker - Playwright (Pangaea, A Mislaid Heaven, The Erotic Life of Property)

  2. Nate SMith - founding director, 6th fest

3:00 pM

Panel: Reimagining a thriving theater industry

Speakers:

  1. molly braverman - Director, Broadway Green Alliance

  2. alex robertson - Broadway Producer (SMASH, The Wiz, BOOP!, Gypsy, Heathers, and more!)

  3. kaaron briscoe - Artistic associate, lincoln center theater

  4. kirya traber - writer, performer, cultural organizer

4:00 pM

Workshop: Songs of Arboreal Kin: An Eco-Musical Theater Workshop

Led By

  1. Gelsey bell - multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist

7:00 pM

Culmination Performance

This is a separate ticketed event

The first-ever Broadway Climate Summit concludes with a rich collection of readings and songs showing the diversity of ways theater is responding to defend of our one and only home! 🌏 🎭

presented by Summit co-founding organization 6th Fest.

WHERE: Ripley-Grier Studios -- 520 8th Ave, Studio 17b, Manhattan