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Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers walk into a room… It's not so much the set-up for a joke as it is the beginning of a fifteen-month collaboration that will ultimately …
If the spirit moves add rhythm,
add music, add your piece
This speech is a collaboration
with the future of American theater.
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Recently I had the opportunity to write and perform a new solo play. I had mixed feelings about taking on the project. After all, I hadn't created a solo performance in more than five years,…
And in what feels like an unbridgeable divide, all Haves seem smug and all Have Nots seem whiny. But the question we have to ask ourselves is are we planning to fight each other to the death…
I am a director. I am a playwright. It has taken me many years of hard work to come to appreciate what each of those professions require and to experience them both independently and combine…
Richard Nelson Bio Page Aaron Malkin Bio Page Aaron: I saw Sad and Sweet and I was really taken by its urgency. It often seems like something happens and four years later there…
The men and women who feel compelled to write for our form, do not aspire to have their words reach millions of people, or make tons of money, as their film and television cohorts do. For so…
Who cares what people like or don't like? What do they understand and feel? That's the question worth grappling with.
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Jonathan Moscone Bio Page Deborah: We're in my office in San Francisco, California. Jon Moscone, I am really glad to interview you and we're going to talk about the Ghost…
Sometime during the throes of mid-life I started feeling the need to scare myself into doing something different. Not to simply feel something new, but to feel something deeper. A handful of…
So, to start: what exactly is a collective? In the course of nurturing and producing over a dozen plays, Workhaus has become a true community of artists, but somehow just focusing on that se…
"Writers for their part, almost always pander to this propensity, why they share; they inflate their imaginations and swell them out of bounds, so that they achieve gigantism, missing real..…
Beth Henley Bio Page  Dan O'Brien Bio Page "Whatever That Means": On Being a Southern Playwright Dan: It's the middle of August, the middle of the afternoon, and Beth Henley and I...
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I have become one of those people. After years of telling people that I was the luckiest former actor I knew, that I loved going to work every day, that I was living my childhood dream, that…
If a playwright or producer is looking for a director, they do their research. They see the director's work, seek out references, and/or sit down and have tea with a number of directors to f…
For what is writing if not the chronicling of accumulated experience run through the imagination and senses? It might follow, therefore, that having children, which is one gigantic act of ac…
My own playwriting life is peripatetic. I moved to New York City after grad school, relocated to Minneapolis for a fellowship, landed in Los Angeles for a decade of writing and teaching and …
But when my role is producer I think I don't actually know where to stand. And I've been doing this for years! Where and how does the producer come into the creative process? When should I s…
Sean Daniels dishes on the role of the associate artistic director, legendary poker player Marc Masterson, and being the sheriff / Interim Artistic Director of Actors Theatre Louisville.
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I could go on, but my point is that, while these pieces were elegantly made, filled with strong images, crisp performances, and precise detailing, none of them were using their design or the…
My observation of how opting out manifests in a lot of theaters results in what I would call the new culture wars. The young and savvy know how to send out the message of the organization. A…
I first started looking at theater through the lens of Horton Hears A Who! at the 2006 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. I was sitting on stage moderating a discussion of Go Home Now by J…
Twenty-five hundred years ago in ancient Athens, theater shaped the body politic. It was a sacred space where commoners and leaders sat side by side and watched their most pressing national …
A few years back I was invited to take part in the launching of a new play development program and was paired with a fresh, young director. I was quite surprised as we talked about my play t…
How can those of us in the theater move beyond "excellence" and make a commitment to "awesomeness."
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