SEASON 32 | August 2020

Hunger
To light the fire, burn hurts home, write the healing, and forgive again

Written and Performed by Ebony Stewart
Directed by Zell Miller III
Presented by The VORTEX

Featuring Ebony Stewart, broadcast for a limited viewing with her permission.

We once again open to the space between forgiveness and farewell.

Spoken word and Interdisciplinary Theatre Artist Ebony Stewart debuted Hunger at The VORTEX in August 2015 and is touring the show and her poetry internationally. With more than a decade of experience in spoken word, slam poetry, and performance, Stewart has established herself as a vital voice in American theatre. She now returns home to The VORTEX to roar her truth with this unapologetic cascade of poetic theatre.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Lighting Design by Patrick Anthony. Stage Management by Lindsey Ervi.

About Ebony Stewart: Spoken Word/Interdisciplinary Theater Artist:

Ebony Stewart is an international touring poet and performance artist. Her work speaks to the black experience, with emphasis on gender, sexuality, womanhood, and race, with the hopes to be relatable, remove shame, heal minds, encourage dialogue, and inspire folks in marginalized communities. 

As one of the most decorated poets in Texas, Ebony is a respected community leader, influencer, facilitator, and one of the top poets in the country that is also a Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion. She is the author of Love Letters to Balled Fists and Home.Girl.Hood. Her work has been featured in For Harriet, AfroPunk, Teen Vogue, and the Texas Observer. The only poet to perform at the 2018 Seattle Pride Festival before 200,000 people was Ebony Stewart.

In 2015, Ebony Stewart debuted her one-woman show, Hunger, at The VORTEX, which was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Original Script and won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama. Hunger also received the Austin Critics’ Table David Mark Cohen New Play Award for Original Script. Ebony is a VORTEX Company member and debuted her show, Ocean, at The VORTEX in May 2017.  

She is #thestoryoftheblackgirlwinning

This project is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.