June 5, 2023
Theatre collaboration sets stage for community engagement
By Emily Groff
![Carley Robinson ’20 is directing the play “Fertile Grounds” for Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble.](https://einhorn.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0601_che1_0.jpg)
Carley Robinson ’20 is directing the play “Fertile Grounds” for Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble.
On June 2, the Ithaca theater organization Civic Ensemble will premiere “Fertile Grounds,” a community-based play that invites the audience onto a fictional farming cooperative involving people of color to explore the relationship of grief, community and wellness.
The opening marks the continuation of the ensemble’s longstanding collaboration with Cornell – and the professional directing debut of Carley Robinson ’20, who began working with the ensemble as an undergraduate in the College of Human Ecology.