The Food Theater Project

To ensure that the performance is on the cutting edge of food activism in the U.S., LightBox has attended several recent food conferences, including Princeton University’s Food, Ethics & the Environment Conference, The Foundry’s Food 101 Conference on food policy in New York City, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Society Conference.

LightBox is grateful to several schools and theatres who helped with the development of the play. In June 2006, New York Theater Workshop brought LightBox to Vassar College for a development retreat, and the company is grateful to Jim Nicola, Linda Chapman, and Geoffrey Scott for their generosity and very helpful feedback about the play at that early stage. In November 2006, St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire invited LightBox to teach the LightBox Approach, and hosted developmental rehearsals of Milk-n-Honey in its state-of-the-art theatre. Thanks to Stanley Cahill for his generosity at St. Paul’s School. In June 2007, the National Theatre Institute’s TheatreMakers program hosted LightBox for a four-day intensive development process at the O’Neill Center in Waterford, Connecticut. Thanks to Michael Cadman, Jean Routt, Andrew Kelsey, and Jake Jeppson for their wonderful support during our retreat.

When the artists of LightBox decided to create the text for Milk-n-Honey from interviews, we knew we wanted help from the best. Thanks to Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nicole Betancourt, StoryCorps radio producer Lizzy Cooper Davis, and This American Life producer Alex Blumberg for teaching LightBox how to conduct fruitful interviews.

Milk-n-Honey was first publicly produced in the fall of 2007 at 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York City.