Ishtar Over Berkeley By John Sullivan

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John Sullivan received the 'Jack Kerouac Literary Prize,' 'Writers Voice: New Voices of the West' award, AZ Arts Fellowships (Poetry & Playwriting), Artists Studio Center Fellowship, WESTAF Fellowship, was a featured playwright at Denver's Changing Scene Summer Play (Changing Scene Theatre), and an Eco-Arts Performance Fellow from Earth Matters On Stage / University of Oregon. He was Artistic/Producing Director of Theater Degree Zero, and directed the Augusto Boal / Theatre of the Oppressed focused applied theatre wing at Seattle Public Theater. For the past fifteen years, he has used Theatre of the Oppressed with communities in the Deep South to promote dialogue on cumulative health risks and environmental justice issues with NIEHS environmental health scientists. He was a writer for the (now defunct and sorely missed) online journal, Community Arts Network / Art in the Public Interest.

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