Walker Art Center and The Great Northern present
Josh Fox:
The Truth Has Changed
(2021 Edition)
Exclusive World Premiere Virtual Screening
Friday, January 29, 2021 7 pm (CST)
The screening is available to view through Monday, February 1 2021, 11:59 pm (CST).
Runtime: 120 minutes
Live Conversation with the Artist
Friday, January 29, 9:15pm (CST)
Josh Fox: The Truth Has Changed (2021 Edition)
Written, Performed, and Directed by
JOSH FOX
Executive Producers
V (formerly EVE ENSLER) and JAKE SARGENT
Stage Direction by
JOSH FOX
Film Direction by
JOSH FOX
Music by
ALEXANDER EBERT, CHRISTIAN FREDERICKSON, DOUGIE BOWNE, and ANDY GILLIS
Dramaturgy by
MORGAN JENNESS
Produced by
DIANE CRESPO, NATHAN LEMOINE, and JOSH FOX
Cinematography by
ALEX TYSON and JOSH FOX
Editing by
ALEX TYSON, GREG KING, and JOSH FOX
Creative Consultant
DOUG CHAPMAN
Assistant Director
AZUREE LYMAN
Produced by
International WOW Company / NATHAN LEMOINE, Managing Director
The Truth Has Changed (2021 Edition) was shot in New York City, Berlin, and New Orleans
In Association with ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Related Event
POST-PERFORMANCE Q&A WITH JOSH FOX
Friday, January 29, 2021 at 9:15 pm CST
Jothsna Harris (Director of Community Engagement, Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy) will moderate a live conversation with Josh Fox following the premiere presentation.
Josh Fox’s The Truth Has Changed (2021 Edition) is presented as part of
ART + CLIMATE: A TWO-PART PERFORMANCE SERIES
Artists everywhere are finding themselves drawn to confronting the monumental scale of the global climate catastrophe, employing human creativity to process and act on what is clearly in front of us. Two new performance works—Josh Fox’s The Truth Has Changed (2021 Edition) and composer William Brittelle’s The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1—both in partnership with Walker Art Center and The Great Northern—mourn futures already lost, insist on environmental justice, and reimagine new ways to live less destructively. Also featured as a related event is Meta Simulacrum, Vol 1: Artist Conversation on February 5 with Brittelle, his collaborators, and preeminent climatologist William deBuys.
Accessibility
The online performance will be closed-captioned.
The post-show artist talk on Friday, January 29, will be live captioned.
Special Thanks
To Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy and MN350 for their support of these performances and conversations.
Dedication
Josh dedicates these performances to Vanessa Bley, a true friend, soul sister, fellow frack fighter, bastion of truth love and music, and to all those sisters taken too soon by male violence and insanity. We miss you so much, it is beyond grief, beyond comprehension—and we hope with all our direst deepest hopes that you are watching.
About the Artists
JOSH FOX (Performer, Writer, Co-Director) is best known as the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer/director of Gasland Parts I and II. Fox is internationally recognized as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and climate change. In 2017, he was awarded his third consecutive Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary for How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, toured the world theatrically, and was released on HBO in June 2016. In 2017, he produced, co-directed, and co-wrote Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock with indigenous filmmakers Doug Good Feather and Myron Dewey, which premiered on Netflix and toured to hundreds of locations around the world. As Artistic Director of International WOW Company he has directed, conceived and written over 40 works for the stage premiering in NY, Europe and Asia including the Drama Desk nominated Surrender, The Bomb, Orphan on God’s Highway, Death of Nations Parts I-V, Limitless Joy, The Expense of Spirit, The Comfort And Safety of Your Own Home, Solutions Grassroots, and ?WOW! at such theaters as PS 122, The Public, CSV, The Ohio Theatre, La Mama and others. As an actor, he has performed all over the world including in the Yomiuri Award winning Emperor and Kiss by Yoji Sakate; Pappa Tarahumara’s WD and The Sound of Future Sync at the New National Theater in Tokyo, and the Setagaya Public Theater’s Hotel Grand Asia. And, way, way back, he was in Drunkboat at Steppenwolf with Tracy Letts and Michael Shannon. His debut film feature Memorial Day was produced by Jim McKay and Michael Stipe’s C-100 company.
Gasland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, where it was awarded the 2010 Special Jury Prize for Documentary. In June of 2010, it premiered on HBO and was seen by over 250,000 audience members in its 250-city grassroots tour. Gasland Part II premiered on HBO in 2013, won the Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary, the Best Film at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival and was given the Hell Yeah Prize from Cinema Eye honors and garnered an Emmy nomination. His work raising awareness on climate change, fracking and renewable energy earned Josh the 2010 Lennon/Ono grant for peace given by Yoko Ono. He co-founded The Solutions Project with Mark Ruffalo, Mark Jacobson, and Marco Krapels, and he was advisor to Artists Against Fracking, Damascus Citizens and many other orgs involved in the successful fight to ban fracking in New York State and the Delaware River Basin. He is an active Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign surrogate and was a 2016 member of the Democratic Platform Committee. The Truth Has Changed is also a book published by Seven Stories Press. This marks his umpteenth collaboration with Ron Russell and Morgan Jenness and Nathan Lemoine, who are quite simply the best. Theater is inherently political; don’t let anyone tell you anything else.
ALEXANDER MICHAEL TAHQUITZ EBERT (Music) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American bands Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. On January 12, 2014, Ebert won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his musical score to the film All Is Lost (2013).
V (formerly EVE ENSLER) (Executive Producer) is the Tony Award-winning playwright, activist and author of the Obie Award-winning theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, published in over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries. Her plays include Lemonade, Extraordinary Measures, Necessary Targets, OPC, The Good Body, Emotional Creature and Fruit Trilogy. She starred in her one-woman play, In the Body of the World, adapted from her memoir. Her most recent book, The Apology, has been called “transfixing,” “revelatory” and “cathartic.” Her writings appear regularly in The Guardian and TIME Magazine. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, a global activist movement which, over the course of more than two decades, has raised over 100 million dollars to end violence against all women and girls—cisgender, transgender and gender non-conforming. She is also the founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. Ensler is a cofounder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the DRC, along with Christine Schuler Deschyrver and Dr. Denis Mukwege, all of whom appeared in the documentary film City of Joy, released globally as a Netflix Original in 2019. Ensler has been named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and The Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.”
MORGAN JENNESS (Dramaturg) is a freelance dramaturg based in New York City. For over 10 years, Jenness worked at the Public Theater, under both George C.Wolfe and Joseph Papp in roles ranging from literary manager to Director of Play Development to Associate Producer of the NY Shakespeare Festival. They were also Associate Artistic Director at the New York Theater Workshop, and an Associate Director at the Los Angeles Theater Center in charge of new projects. They have participated as a visiting artist and adjunct in playwriting programs at a number of colleges and universities, and are currently on the faculty at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, Pace University and Columbia University. Jenness received an Obie Award Special Citation for Longtime Support of Playwrights, the G. E. Lessing Award for Career Achievement, and a prestigious Doris Duke Impact Award, among other honors. Currently is Creative Director at In This Distracted Globe Consultancy.
RON RUSSELL (Co-Director). Public Theatre: Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days. Off-Broadway (selected, both direction and sound design): Time and the Conways, Hannah and Martin (World Premiere w/David Strathairn & Melissa Friedman), Little Eyolf, Einstein's Gift (U.S. Premiere w/Aasif Mandvi), Widower's Houses (WP of new adaptation co-written with Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.), Dispatches from (A)Mended America (WP), No Child... (WP w/Nilaja Sun, sound design only), Pike St., The Winning Side (WP w/Sullivan Jones & Melissa Friedman), and Motherstruck (Culture Project, co-directed with Cynthia Nixon).National Tours: Nilaja Sun's Pike St.; Dominique Morisseau's MEND (Commissioned and Developed by Epic); Epic NEXT's 10467, Overdrive, and UPCOMING: Perfect Circle. Regional: Woolly Mammoth (D.C.), San Diego Rep, Old Globe + USD, Greenhouse (Chicago), Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass (Chicago), Long Wharf. Ron is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of nationally-recognized and award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble, NYC, leading 22 Off-Broadway productions, hundreds of new play development workshops, and education programs reaching over 30,000 young people in Title I high schools since 2001. Awards: OBIE for Epic's Education Programs; OBIE for Sound Design; NYC Municipal Arts Society Citizenship Award.
DIANE CRESPO (Artistic Consultant/Producer) is a director, producer, and founding partner of New York-based Cicala Filmworks. Since 1996, Cicala has produced commercials, documentaries and seven feature films, including My Last Day Without You (2011), Michael Imperioli’s The Hungry Ghosts (2009), Contested Streets (2006), and Arranged (2007). Her work as a producer and director has earned dozens of awards and film festival honors including Best Film at Harlem International Film, Grand Prize at Skip City International Film Festival, Best Film at Brooklyn International Film Festival, as well as nominations for the New American Cinema Award and The Women Film Critics Circle Award. Her 2012 Feature Film Clutter, starring Carol Kane and Natasha Lyonne, premiered in competition at Seattle International Film Festival. From 2014-2019 Diane traveled the globe documenting the work of 100 Resilient Cities for the Rockefeller Foundation. Diane is thrilled to be working with International WoW Company and Josh Fox to get this important and moving work into the world.
NATHAN LEMOINE (Producer) Nathan’s eclectic background has given him the unique opportunity to work with numerous independent and commercial artists, theaters and dance companies across the country and internationally in a variety of artistic and administrative support roles and venues. Some of those companies, artists and venues include Baryshnikov Productions, Lviv Theater Voskresinnia, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Big Dance Theater, International WOW Company, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Radio City Music Hall, Frank Ocean, Christine Jones, Mimi Lien, Bergdorf Goodman, Jessica Lange Dance, architect Steven Holl, Jeff Becker and ArtSpot Productions, Rebecca Mwase, Alexander Demers, Tina Satter and Half Straddle, Yehuda Duenyas, National Theater of the United States of America, Immediate Medium, The Foundry, Every House Has A Door, The Ohio Theater, PS122, and The Ontological Hysteric, among many others. Before moving to New Orleans, LA in 2016 he was the Technical Director at Paper Mache Monkey Art and Design Studio in New York. While there, he was a lead project manager working with a variety of renowned clients from the worlds of dance, fashion, theater, music and visual arts. Nathan has a Bachelor's Degree in Theater from Louisiana Tech University, a Master’s Degree in Directing from Ohio University, and studied technical design at California Institute of the Arts.
ArKtype / THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN (Producer) specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), John Cameron Mitchell’s The Origin of Love, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers’ Cartography, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not By Bread Alone. Ongoing collaborations include 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, Josh Fox, Rude Mechs, Adrien M. & Clare B. and Compagnia T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present w/Malthouse Theatre, Nora Chipaumire’s Nehanda V. The Queen, and Sam Green’s 32 Sounds. More information at arktype.org.
JOTHSNA HARRIS (Moderator of the live post-performance conversation on Friday, January 29) In her role as the Director of Community Engagement, Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy, Jothsna is skilled at building community resilience and capacity through fostering multi-stakeholder alliances and connecting people together through the power of storytelling. Jothsna’s work includes innovative programming designed to empower climate champions, connecting the head and the heart, by centering humanity in climate change, including the award-winning Climate Conversation series in partnership with Three Rivers Park District, the Talk Climate Institute, 2017-18 Youth Convening Minnesota, and award-winning 2014-16 Climate Minnesota project. Jothsna is the co-editor of Eyewitness: Minnesota Voices on Climate Change—a collection of stories, poetry, and art from Minnesotans on their experiences of climate change. Jothsna holds dual BA’s in Environmental Studies and Political Science from the University of Saint Thomas.
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