“[The In[HEIR]itance Project] provides a way for a community to reveal its soul through storytelling”

–Charleston Post & Courier

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Using Collaborative Theater to Approach Interfaith Conversations in Memphis

Ariel Warmflash, Interfaith America | September 26. 2023

Can Memphis be at peace and hold fear at the same time?  / Beloved community sharing news columns with crime  / Artists flee Memphis for the promise of some bands  / But for the rest of us, can this be the Promised Land?  

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PRESS RELEASE: IHP NAMES ZHAILON LEVINGSTON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Glen rosenkrantz | september 18, 2023

 Zhailon Levingston, whose work as a theatre maker, storyteller and activist is elevating critical cultural conversations, has been named the new Artistic Director of the In(HEIR)itance Project.

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 A Jewish approach to cross-cultural understanding and tolerance

Jon Adam Ross, eJewish Philanthropy | June 5, 2023

Our communities have challenges that impact the collective and must be addressed collectively. Art can help address collective issues intersectionally. 

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Play ‘800 (Memphians) have written’ to debut this weekend

The Daily Memphian | March 30, 2023

The InHEIRitance Project has spent the past nine months creating a play in Memphis alongside local artists. The group has conducted more than 30 play-devising sessions with 800 Memphians of all ages.

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Marrying sacred text and civic conversation, the In[HEIR]itance Project opens pathways for change

Innofaith | November 12, 2021

We are thrilled to announce the In[HEIR]itance Project as the winner of the innoFaith award, given as part of Soularize Live in October 2021.

 

In Pursuit of “Beloved Community”: The Work of the In[HEIR]itance Project

eJewish Philanthropy | October 9, 2020

The theme of tribalism had powered the In[HEIR]itance Project’s open playmaking process at JCC Harlem for more than six weeks in a project made possible by UJA-Federation of New York. 

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TELLING THE STORY

The Jewish Press | Oct 16, 2019

Telling the story of how so many different people came to call Omaha “home.”

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MAKING A SEANCE IN DETROIT

The Detroit Jewish News | Sep 20, 2018

We partnered with The Well for a dinner-party theatrical event inspired by the ancient Jewish ritual of Ushpizin which recalls ancestors for the harvest holiday.

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HOLLYWOOD SOAPBOX: EXPLORING THE UNIQUENESS, UNIVERSALITY OF GENESIS

Hollywood SOAPBOX | May 5, 2018

An in depth interview about The Genesis Plays festival!

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INTERFAITH ARTS GROUP IN CHARLESTON ADDRESSES SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES

Charleston Post & Courier | Dec 9, 2017

One community arts project begets another.

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PRESS RELEASE: THE ABRAHAM PLAY BEGINS TWIN CITIES RUN

H. Glenn Rosenkrantz | Nov 30, 2015

Actor and Playwright Jon Adam Ross Brings Modern Interpretation of Biblical Patriarch to Architectural Antiques in Minneapolis and Bedlam Theatre in Saint Paul

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