Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Francesca Spiegel, whose performative writing project Brevity is the River of the World will explore the joy of short-form writing through observations of nature’s intricate ecosystems.
Francesca Spiegel
Francesca Spiegel
Francesca Spiegel attended Catwalk in 2023 as part of a four-person theater working group to rediscover Queen For a Day, a 1950s game show where housewives competed for the title of “most tragic and difficult life” to receive corporate-sponsored gifts as supposed solutions. The project used physical, musical, archival, and documentary theater, as well as clowning and experimental writing, to redefine the show’s relevance today. A writer of book-length works and long essays, Francesca has declared 2025 her “year of being brief,” challenging herself to write 52 short pieces in a performative writing project called Brevity is the River of the World. During her Catwalk residency, she will draw inspiration from the ecosystem, observing organisms in nature to explore the relationality between long and short texts and to spark joy in the short form.
