Staged Reading and Discussion of "I'm a Slut, Sababa"

Playwright Caitlin Beckwith-Ferguson ’14 and Ari Roth, the artistic director of Mosaic Theater Company of DC, lead a discussion about Israeli theater and identity politics. This session includes a reading of selections from Caitlin's play, I'm a Slut, Sababa, which explores sexuality, gender, and feminism in Judaism and Israel.

Beckwith-Ferguson spent two years living in Israel working as a teaching fellow at a low-income school, and then serving as the literary manager at Habima Theatre — the national theater of Israel — where she critiqued and selected plays for the theater.

While in Israel, she wrote her interview-based play, I’m a Slut, Sababa, which was performed in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2017. Caitlin worked in Washington D.C. as a fellow at Mosaic Theater Company, where she organized the Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival national tour, and served as a dramaturg for the play, Ulysses on Bottles. She was also a teaching assistant for the University of Michigan in Washington’s political theater course. Caitlin received her bachelor's degree in English from Grinnell College in 2014.