Every New Beginning | Mina Morita | TEDxChapmanU

Mina Morita has unleashed her creative spirit on the American stage for years, bringing stories and characters to life in theaters across the country. She is dedicated to the development of a contemporary theatre canon that reflects the diverse world in which we live. Hard on the family and love life? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.

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Mina Morita is the Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, a critically acclaimed and vital company specializing in adventurous new play production in San Francisco. Previously, Morita served as the Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was a part of the originating team for its Ground Floor Program, which is a center for the creation and development of New York. She has collaborated with a number of world-renowned directors and playwrights, including Tony Taccone and Tony Kushner for The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, with Les Waters and Sarah Ruhl for In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (which received a Tony nomination), and Anna Deavere Smith for On Grace.

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