Photos and words by Bright Generations participants

EDITORS/CURATORS - KARIN SERRES, GINNI MANNING, & KIM PETER KOVAC

Karin Serres is a playwright, novelist and set & costume designer based in Vincennes, France. She is a board member of Write Local, Play Global. Writing in some unknown place being her favorite creative energy, she loves to travel and work, any distance. Keen on collective intelligence and co-creation, passionate about the sensory diversity of the languages, she’s also committed into facilitating a more fair circulation of contemporary playwriting - especially TYA, leading multilingual writing projects or sensory workshops, and working for a greater diversity in worldwide french speaking theatre. Currently playwright in residence at Très Tôt Théâtre, Quimper, Transversales-Verdun and le Nest-CDN de Thionville, she’s also working on a long term with companies such as Entre Chien & Loup and La Loba.

Kim Peter Kovac is formerly Artistic Director of Theater for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center, the US national cultural center, where he commissioned and produced 100+ new plays for young audiences. He served on the board of TYA/USA for 19 years, and for 12 years on the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ, including 6 as Vice President and he recently received ASSITEJ'S Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the USA.  Along with his work on Write Local Play Global, he is currently a poet with two published collections. 

Ginni Manning is a playwright, theatre maker and writer from Liverpool, U.K. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, and a disabled artist, she is an advocate for inclusive and accessible theatre. She is a creative facilitator who specializes in working with children and young people. She is an active member of Write Local. Play Global, in which capacity she has been involved in events at the ASSITEJ World Congress 2024,  ASSITEJ 2017 Cradle of Creativity, the ASSITEJ World Congress 2020 Mirai Festival, the Catch The Wave Festival and the ASSITEJ Artistic Gatherings in 2022 and 2023. She co-wrote ‘Dipalo’, an ASSITEJ award winning play, with South African theatre maker Lalu Mokuku. She recently worked with Wild Rumpus and Battersea Arts Centre on the immersive show The Oak King and the Holly King. She is currently working with artists Cliodhna Noon of Acting Up! Early Years Arts in Dublin and shadow puppeteer Rachel Riggs. Ginni is also an active board member of the ASSITEJ International Inclusive Arts Network (IIAN) and facilitates collaborations between WLPG and IIAN. In 2024 she received Arts Council England ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ funding to explore the role of the playwright in PYA.