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Featured Guest on The Uplifters Podcast
EPISODE #31: MARA RICHARDS BIM
INTERFAITH HEALING“We landed in Tel Aviv on Saturday, October 7th at about five o'clock local time. We were the last flight that was allowed in because war had already broken out.”
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"There's only one theater like Cry Havoc in North Texas — and this is its last show"
- KERA
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"In the few short years since Mara Richards Bim started Cry Havoc, the theater company has produced some of the most consistently exciting work in North Texas."
— D Magazine
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"The year 2018 was the bloodiest year in American history for school shootings. Purely by coincidence, a tiny theater company of teen actors in Dallas set out to create an original stage play about some of our many arguments over Second Amendment rights, mass shootings, background checks and automatic weapons. In this five-part series, hosts Hady Mawajdeh and Jerome Weeks follow Cry Havoc Theater Company as its student actors travel across the country to talk to folks on all sides of the debate."
- KERA/NPR
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"I’ll be honest, I cried. It’s hard not to, and I wasn’t alone. The anger, desperation, and grief reflected in the voices of each person are incredibly visceral."
- D Magazine on Crossing the Line
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"After years working in New York’s theater scene, Bim returned to Dallas and founded Cry Havoc, a youth theater troupe that immediately began producing some of the most engaging and challenging theater work in Dallas, regardless of age, tackling issues from the border crisis to gun violence."
- D Magazine’s List of 78 Women Who Make Dallas Great, 2021
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"I’m still grappling with the words I heard. This play did what no news report or televised debate could do—it forced me to absorb the debate’s entire form. "
- Local Profile on Crossing the Line
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"These teens have learned not just to support those around them but to check in with their own selves. They recognize that every incident affects each person differently depending on background. And they have wisdom that we all need to hear."
- Dallas Morning News on The Art of Broken Things
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Cry Havoc Theater Company Named "Best Thing to Happen to Local Theater"
- D Magazine, 2019
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"An eminently important and artistically sophisticated verbatim docudrama."
- TheaterJones on Crossing the Line
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"Best of 2018-19 get standing O from Dallas-Fort Worth theater critics" Best New Play or Musical; Best Ensemble Performance; Special Citation for Mara Richards Bim and Tim Johnson
- Dallas Culture Map on Crossing the Line
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KERA Art & Seek Spotlight: Mara Richards Bim
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"This production is a true catalyst for a difficult conversation in a time when we can all use a little understanding."
— Dallas Observer on Shots Fired
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"D-FW Theater Critics Forum names the best plays, performances and more in Dallas-Fort Worth" Best New Play or Musical, Cry Havoc Theater company; Special Citation Mara Richards Bim
— Dallas Morning News on Babel