Dates
March 16, 2010
Venue
Center on Halsted
Center on Halsted’s actOUT program featured “out” playwright Jamil Khoury and “out” director Steve Scott from Silk Road Theatre Project to discuss the world premier of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion. In The DNA Trail, seven playwrights – including Khoury – agreed to take genealogical tests and revisit their assumptions about race, ethnicity, and family. Khoury and Scott added sexual orientation to the mix and considered the role of sexuality in coloring racial perceptions, a topic of much interest in Chicago’s diverse and multi-ethnic LGBTQ community.