 comments and Boston and anybody who's watching this video my name is Miranda Craigwell I am a comments producer for Melinda Lopez Melinda is in residence at the Huntington Theatre Company for three years this is the first of three years of the Mellon residency and I just wanted to introduce myself I am a theater maker a playwright and an actress or in Boston I've been producing for Melinda for one year and I wanted to introduce you to the series what we're doing right now is basically we're documenting Melinda's journey as a resident and the title of the series is Melinda Lopez documenting a dream and while that feels kind of lofty I want to give it some grounding with the reason I chose that title when I was talking to Melinda about what she wanted to accomplish this year one of the things she said was dream time dream time to think about the next play that she wanted to write so she's in residence at the Huntington Theatre Company which basically means she's a member of the staff artistically and operationally and I thought about the idea of a dream you know it's the things that we we think about subconsciously the things that we want the things that we desire and I said you know what this this series needs to be called documenting the dream because the dream of artists being planted in theaters needs to not be a dream anymore by documenting it we need to get it down we need to get a nice little formula so people like me can have the the financial backing the artistic support that we need in order to make good work and that's what the 14 residents the 14 fellows are doing in their residencies so let me tell you a little bit more about these residents there are 14 resident artists around the country and they each have a resident producer so someone who's documenting and disseminating what they're learning on their journey so whether that's new artistic accomplishments or new ways of approaching theater we here the resident producers are here to make sure that that information gets to you I invite you to watch this space these videos will definitely be on how the HowlRound site so definitely check out www.howlround.com there you find all the information that you need about the other residents around the country as well as information on what's going on in the theater world in general and by supporting this venture by being interested in what these artists do you're making a way for artists like me to maybe one day find a residency myself so I invite you to watch this space enjoy if you have any questions or any feedback about the program feel free to hit up the cats at HowlRound they're interested this is the comments we want the comments everybody who's interested in theater to take part so that everybody who's interested in theater can really win and learn from this residency experience so welcome thank you and enjoy