My name is Paige Hathaway and I am the set designer for The High Ground, written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. A few things to know about me: I’m a freelance designer based in the D.C. area, I went to grad school for set design [...]
We have been here before. Soldier has been here before. We are here now—here in this theater, yes, but also in the reoccurrence of routinized violence against Black people. The High Ground, a play by Nathan Alan Davis, in conversation with the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, concerns [...]
The world premiere of The High Ground is the result of many years of research, writing, and workshopping, as Arena commissioned Nathan back in 2016 as part of the inaugural group of playwrights in the Power Plays cycle. This is the largest commissioning project in Arena Stage’s history: an ambitious [...]
