 Yeah, it's okay to clap One minute like this. We were here last year. We love you guys. We are a New York based organization We partner with playwrights and community specific theaters all around the country We invite playwrights living and working in those cities to engage in our playmaking process You do not know what to write about, but we look at the emerging themes and ideas that sort of bubble up to the surface across the Spectrum and we figure out how to encapsulate that and reflect it back So we call this a barometer project for a really specific reason We're sort of taking the temperature of your community For any questions or who are we? What is our relationship to each other to our community and to our work? So we use this as a way to sort of say here's 90 pulses of storytelling that might say something about your community and where we might be going We are here partnering with the AMAZING, Interact Theater Company, or the Black Play Initiative Which about half the choices from this might bless the concentration Everything actually just directly to supporting so by you being here with us in the audience and buying a ticket It gives directly back to helping foster the new play culture here in Philadelphia And I'd like to introduce Mr. Seth Brazen, the artistic director of Interact Theater The Fallout Community Plan Initiative is about a five-year-old entity. It's not an organization It's an effort really a volunteer effort Interact serves as a conduit for to improve the climate for new plays and playwrights in the area and Through the efforts of the one that played us the last year. We were able to support the first ever Right local weekend this past June, which was a showcase of local writer's work The first time so very excited about that We hope to continue that next year and there are other activities that we do to support playwrights throughout the year Interact for those of you don't know is a Full-year theater There's information about our season on the back of your program on this coming year We're actually doing a season of all world premieres and we also support the commissioning development and production of new plays So please come out and support Interact as well as information about Thank you It's important to note that tonight we are live streaming on the internet via our partners at PowerLand TV Hello Live online as an archive and sort of a living artifact what we created this year here is a community You can find it on the url Livestream.com slash new play which is a long form in the shortcut Which is how round dot TV and if you follow the conversation on Twitter with our dedicated hashtag One in pf and the hashtag new play we invite you to check that out Look at all the things you might have missed or seen or want to see again and just use it You are Spanish in its about your community. 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