The Reasons
The ID America Festival was inspired by our growing concern over the polarization of media in America. News organizations are increasingly biased towards the left or right, and it is rare to find an open forum where differing points of view are given equal weight. We are becoming divided by the papers we read, or the news stations we watch; a nation whose people are pigeonholed based on their political or religious affiliations, by their lifestyle choices. We are demographics before we are Americans. We at Quo Vadimus Arts have created a festival where people with differing points of view are welcome as artists and as audience members, where ideally everyone emerges having seen the world from a fresh perspective.

We received 332 submissions, from 219 playwrights, ages 17 - 83, from 33 states and 6 different countries, including Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland and Nigeria. Our 30 final playwrights hail from 16 different states. Our playwrights, of diverse ages and backgrounds, have each contributed a unique point of view to our exploration of what America means.