Molly Rice

Molly Rice is a playwright/musician who creates big, aspirational community collaborations and small, strange musicals. Her works include The Birth of Paper, a transcontinental theater work connecting Pittsburgh, PA and Beirut, Lebanon; Khuraki, a theatrical/ culinary experience created with Afghan refugees; Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers, a true-crime musical; and The Saints Tour, a site-specific enchantment. She is the Founder/Co-Artistic Director of RealTime Arts and has a MFA from Brown University.

Molly Rice will be researching and ideating There is a blue that only children see, a theatrical/musical work informed by collaboration with Ukrainian art therapists and the children they are serving. At Bogliasco, Rice will study Ukrainian history, imagery of blue birds in folklore across global cultures and eras, and Mauriece Maeterlinck’s symbolist classic The Blue Bird, alongside the children’s artwork, in an examination of happiness and hope–and the elusiveness of both.