Travel "Whore": The Backside of International Relations
Jo-Anne Hart

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Los Angeles (now living in Providence)
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Website - HartStories.com 
Instagram - @Hartstoriesstage
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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE

Finding the funny in foreign policy. In this solo storytelling piece, Jo-Anne Hart uses her real fieldwork, including being seen as a prostitute, her mishaps and insecurities -- in contexts including the end days of the Soviet Union; to meeting with the President of Iran; and to landing on an aircraft carrier at sea to brief US naval leaders – to show us the humorous backside, private anxiety, and the costuming disasters behind this serious work. Come cringe, laugh, and gape at stories from a hard-working travel whore for international peace.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jo-Anne has performed her nonfiction pieces in New England, Sweden, and Norway. She was a Grand Slam Winner at the Ko Festival of Radical Performance in Amherst, and at the 2024 PVD Fringe Festival her storytelling performance was voted Audience Favorite One-Person Show as well as Audience Favorite Love Story. She has a Ph.D in Political Science and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction. A longtime professor, Jo-Anne has spent her career in international peacebuilding work - where she can always find the humor.