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Sue Warnke on why theater matters for Black American stories: it forces audiences to actually engage, not just watch. She believes creators must put pieces of themselves in their work to tell stories people haven't heard before.
Sue Warnke on why theater matters for Black American stories: it forces audiences to actually engage, not just watch. She believes creators must put pieces of themselves in their work to tell stories people haven't heard before.
I fight for the stories of Black Americans to rewrite the way that our narrative is told in the United States. People want to hear voices of a new generation, of a new time, because people are fed up right now. I'm definitely a believer that the theater, it's a place that forces us to sit in a space and be approach with the situation, and we have to answer to it. I feel like the theme that connects all of my work is the idea of fighting to be seen. I'm always fighting for some new voice to be heard, or I'm fighting for a new voice within myself and my own understanding of myself to be heard. You have to be able to see a piece of yourself in your work to be able to tell your story authentically and to be able to tell a story that people may have never experienced or seen before. So I always try to draw on something personal within myself when I approach my work. You matter, and your voice matters, and your story matters, and your experience matters. That's what I'm fighting for, is to make sure that people are creating that space. That's the thing that I think I want people to walk away with in my work.
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