178 stories by "League of Professional Theatre Women"
Playwright/Dramaturg Brooklyn, New York USA What production changed my life? When I was 6 or 7, my parents took me to see a touring company at John Carroll, the local Jesuit university. I'm …
Freelance Director and Associate Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? I look for inspiration in conversations with playwrights …
Performance Maker, Director New Orleans, Louisiana; heading to Providence, Rhode Island soon, USA Recent inspiring thing:Â “Say what you mean, literally and in all other senses.R…
Artistic Director, Playwright, Performer New York, New York USA Re: life-changing. When I was in college in the mid-80s, I helped out with touring companies that came to the campus performin…
LPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
published novelist and playwright New York, New York USA Paula Vogel said that “Theatre is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in dialogue right now.” Dialogue outsid…
Theatre: Director; Artistic Director of OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre Project Brooklyn, New York USA Two productions lured me into theatre with the magic of costume, light and transformat…
Dramatist, Actor, Acting Teacher, Voice & Speech Coach New York, New York USA Play that changed my life:Â Pinocchio, don't smoke that Cigarette. I was the only 1st grader cast in the …
Theatre Producer New York, New York USA The first play I saw when I was very young was Cyrano De Bergerac starring Jose Ferrer. It made me fall in love with the theatre. My favorite line in …
Actress, Writer New York, New York USA My inspiration came from my beloved mother who loved all the arts, played Galli-Curci and Caruso records on the old Victrola, read Pushkin to me in Rus…
Lyricist, Librettist, Composer, Producer New York, New York USA By the time I was five I was already studying ballet and piano, and had seen several children’s musicals, so it wasnR…
LPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
Theatre Director New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? From my past in China and to areas that have unsung stories such as Tibet, Vietnam and the Cambodian genocide in th…
Director, Educator, Author New York, New York USA What play or production changed your life? The Eternal Road, a monumental historical morality play, written by Franz Werfel, directed by the…
Actor and Director Manhattan Where do you look for inspiration? To myself and the many things that the universe sends me. Favorite Book: The Warmth of Many Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Favorite …
Foundation Arts Program Officer OR Foundation Arts Executive New York, New York USA I believe strongly in government and private support for the entire nonprofit sector of all the arts, and …
Playwright, Lyricist, Book Writer New York, New York USA Some ideas, themes, books, films get lodged in our heart’s memories for ages, and one such for me was a novel, The Leopard, by …
Artistic Director New York, New York USA I don’t think anyone knows I was a farm girl from Pelham, Georgia. The one thing I learned there was to get away as soon as possible. I went to…
LPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
Director / Producer / Consultant New York, New York and Long Island, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? I'd like to say it came from beauty or some munificent place. But in trut…
Dialect Design/Coaching, Dramaturgy New York, New York USA; global via Skype Where do you look for inspiration? I don't look for it; I let it sneak up on me. What's your favorite book / movi…
Playwright; artist; producer; eco activist New York, New York USA I look to re-writing for inspiration. Anywhere near the matchless sound of geese or wildlife inspires me, too. Favorite book…
Director, Artistic Director, Writer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? First, my colleagues. Not only the amazingly talented collaborators " actors, writers, choreogra…
Actor, Producer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? In the laws of the universe – physical and metaphysical: attraction; polarity; the vine that winds inexorably …
Director New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Mostly in things I read " novels, articles, essays, stories. If the ideas themselves aren't the source of inspiration, then…
