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Alex Beige, Dante Green, & 김채송 Chaesong Kim of The Makers’ Enemble’s Short Play Festival
June 19, 2024 17:12 - 17 minutes - 30.3 MBListen in as director 김채송 Chaesong Kim (Alien Play), playwright Alex Beige (Blackpilled, A Blueprint), and director Dante Green (Light + House) of The Makers’ Ensemble’s Short Play Festival, discuss immigration stores, where love stories meet ghost stories, playwrights writing … Continue reading →
Kenneth Keng, Annaporva Green, & Chisom Awachie of “Brought Up”
June 19, 2024 17:05 - 18 minutes - 32 MBListen in as playwright Kenneth Keng, director Annaporva Green, and actor & projection designer Chisom Awachie of Brought Up discuss lobotomized flesh puppets, encouraging participation and not “screaming and running away,” gratitude for designers, complicity and unthinking loyalty, Capri Suns, … Continue reading →
Nia Akilah Robinson & Julia Greer of “Push Party”
June 14, 2024 21:20 - 25.2 MBListen in as Push Party playwright Nia Akilah Robinson, along with Producing Artistic Director of The Hearth Julia Greer, discuss just what a “push party” is, high school drama, naming characters, showing unspoken love, enmeshment, making peace with what’s passed … Continue reading →
Melissa Ingle, Emily Conlon, and Sevrin Willinder of “Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works”
May 30, 2024 20:16 - 31.2 MBListen in as performers Sevrin Willinder and Emily Conlon and director Melissa Ingle, of Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works, discuss translation order, opening up and exploring the box, post-COVID theatre, playing with the audience, the show’s resident ShakesPEER expert, connecting, … Continue reading →
Coral Cohen, Cosette Pin, Sam Hood Adrian, & James Clements of “Third Law”
May 23, 2024 17:35 - 18 minutes - 31.8 MBListen in as members of the team that devised What Will the Neighbors Say?‘s Third Law—director Coral Cohen, designer Cosette Pin, and performers Sam Hood Adrian and James Clements—discuss their devising process, exploring audience agency, Kandinsky, testing your show with … Continue reading →
Luis Feliciano, Kristen Hoffman, Penelope Deen, & Padraig Bond of “The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden”
May 17, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes - 26.9 MBListen in as Luis Feliciano, Kristen Hoffman, Penelope Deen, & Padraig Bond of Torch Ensemble’s The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden, winner of “Best Play” in the New York City Fringe, discuss playing with trash, constant improvisation, … Continue reading →
Madelyn Chapman, Jesse Castellanos, Michelle Feza Kuchuk, Fernando Mateo, Jr., Haneen Arafat Murphy, Maria Peyramaure, & Yasmin Ranz-Lind of “Lost Sock Laundry”
April 17, 2024 20:35 - 25 minutes - 42.6 MBListen in as the director of Lost Sock Laundry, Madelyn Chapman, along with the full cast—Jesse Castellanos, Michelle Feza Kuchuk, Fernando Mateo, Jr., Haneen Arafat Murphy, Maria Peyramaure, & Yasmin Ranz-Lind—discuss variations on the immigrant experience, finding the political in … Continue reading →
Dorothea Gloria, Joe Staton, Natasha Jain, Francesca Bolam, Kevin Rios, Jandel Camilo, Mila Besson, Nicholas Bompart, and Pablo Gatto of The Immigrant Short Play Festival
April 12, 2024 21:17 - 18 minutes - 32.7 MBListen in as Dorothea Gloria, Joe Staton, Natasha Jain, Francesca Bolam, Kevin Rios, Jandel Camilo, Mila Besson, Nicholas Bompart, and Pablo Gatto of RiffRaff NYC‘s Immigrants in New York short play festival discuss mother-daughter relationships, unpacking baggage, why clowns, the … Continue reading →
Nancy Ma, Kim Wuan, David Lee Huynh, & Vin Kridakorn of “Warrior Sisters of Wu”
March 06, 2024 14:54 - 17 minutes - 30.8 MBListen in as Warrior Sisters of Wu performers Nancy Ma, Kim Wuan, David Lee Huynh, & Vin Kridakorn discuss navigating and connecting times and traditions, how conflicts can grow relationships and solve problems, respect and love for the audience, the … Continue reading →
Marc Castle, Mark Finley, & Dani Marcus of “Deadly Stages”
February 28, 2024 23:31 - 17 minutes - 30.6 MBListen in Deadly Stages co-authors Mark Finley (who directs) and Marc Castle (who portrays the glamorous Veronica Traymore), along with fellow performer Dani Marcus (Phoebe/Connie), discuss love of old movies, where reality meets camp, red herrings, writing like directors, pulling … Continue reading →
Eliza Palter, Paul Rochford, Thammie Laine Quách, Eli Wassertzug, & Ana Prí of “Antigone”
February 23, 2024 21:02 - 18 minutes - 32.7 MBListen in as the adapter/director of New Relic Theatre’s production of Sophocles, Eliza Palter, along with composer Paul Rochford and performers Thammie Laine Quách, Eli Wassertzug, & Ana Prí, discuss Swedish pop musical inspiration, creating otherworldly characters, deep research, discovering … Continue reading →
Elijah Guo, Dylin Taylor, Marsha Yuan, Misako Yamagishi, & Anthony Naranjo of “Tourist Trap”
February 21, 2024 14:29 - 16 minutes - 29.4 MBListen in as Tourist Trap writer Elijah Guo, director Dylin Taylor, and performers Marsha Yuan, Misako Yamagishi, & Anthony Naranjo discuss the absurdity of unbelonging, the universality of beans, the authority of tour/play guides, and where physical space meets the … Continue reading →
Andrew Agress, Theo McKenna, Becky Ho, and Stephanie Litchfield of “The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII!”
February 08, 2024 17:33 - 13 minutes - 25 MBListen in as The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII! playwright Andrew Agress, along with performers Theo McKenna, Becky Ho, & Stephanie Litchfield, discuss full-double-cringe, inspiration from COVID boredom, alternate endings, “pleasant hell,” rolling with the (sometimes … Continue reading →
Andrew Cortes, of the Stage Whisper Podcast
January 26, 2024 21:03 - 24 minutes - 40.8 MBListen in as Andrew Cortes, co-host of the Stage Whisper podcast, discusses the origins of the podcast, grumpy stage doorers vs. spontaneous intermission conversations, finding the positives, forging your own thoughts, making something unique, and why no one should have … Continue reading →
Cezar Williams & Danielle Covington of The Fire This Time Festival
January 24, 2024 21:26 - 7 minutes - 16.7 MBListen in as The Fire This Time Artistic Director & the plays’ director Cezar Williams, along with producer & performer Danielle Covington, discuss highlighting the small moments, finding compassion, developing playwrights, and what’s new this time with The Fire This … Continue reading →
Anya-Violette Zhang, Elena Lozonschi, Amy Hart Nguyễn, Lairce Dias, Joe Staton, Roslind Finlay, & Frank Pagliaro of “The Cherry Orchard: A Multilingual Adaptation”
January 22, 2024 22:03 - 22 minutes - 38.6 MBListen in as The Cherry Orchard: A Multilingual Adaptation performers Elena Lozonschi, Anya-Violette Zhang, Amy Hart Nguyễn, Lairce Dias, Joe Staton, along with assistant director/performer Roslind Finlay & director Frank Pagliaro, discuss finding home, creating a multilingual version of a … Continue reading →
Olivia Webb, Garrett Miller, Harrison Tipping, & Albrim Gjonbalaj of “Twelfth Night”
November 10, 2023 21:13 - 20 minutes - 35.2 MBListen in as producer/performer Olivia Webb, along with fellow actors Garrett Miller, Harrison Tipping, & Albrim Gjonbalaj from their new production of Twelfth Night, discuss finding freedom on the stage, overcoming the fear of Shakespeare, making a play come to … Continue reading →
Olivia Webb, Garrett Miller, & Albrim Gjonbalaj of “Twelfth Night”
November 10, 2023 21:13 - 20 minutes - 35.2 MBListen in as producer/performer Olivia Webb, along with fellow actors Garrett Miller & Albrim Gjonbalaj from their new production of Twelfth Night, discuss finding freedom on the stage, overcoming the fear of Shakespeare, making a play come to life by … Continue reading →
Hend Ayoub, Joe Joseph, Siena Yusi, & Julie Cai of “9 Kinds of Silence”
October 05, 2023 20:28 - 14 minutes - 27.6 MBListen in as Go See a Show! correspondent Jason Wang speaks with 9 Kinds of Silence performers Hend Ayoub & Joe Joseph, along with production stage manager Siena Yusi and assistant stage manager Julie Cai, about working with the playwright/director … Continue reading →
Tjaša Ferme, Nasay Ano, Melody Munitz, Arianne Banda, & Thammie Quach of “BIOADAPTED”
September 18, 2023 19:39 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBListen in as BIOADAPTED creator & director Tjaša Ferme, along with performers Nasay Ano, Melody Munitz, Arianne Banda, & Thammie Quach, discuss the benefits of a long development process, collaborating with AI, learning as an actor just what all these … Continue reading →
Garrett Miller, Olivia Hewitt, Sabrina Gómez, Phanie Cherres, & Michael James Duran of “The Motherf**ker With the Hat”
August 29, 2023 21:19 - 21 minutes - 26.6 MBListen in as The Motherf**ker With the Hat executive producers Garrett Miller (who also plays “Jackie”) and Olivia Hewitt (who also stage manages the show), along with performers Sabrina Gómez (“Veronica”), Phanie Cherres (“Victoria”), and Michael James Duran (“Ralph D”), discuss self-producing, … Continue reading →
Katie Palmer, Paul Bedard, & Jessie Atkinson of “The Nobodies Who Were Everybody”
August 09, 2023 20:57 - 20 minutes - 25.5 MBListen in as The Nobodies Who Were Everybody co-directors (and Theater in Asylum co-artistic directors) Katie Palmer and Paul Bedard, along with performer Jessie Atkinson, discuss the company’s devising process, why an important bit of American Theater history has seemingly … Continue reading →
Lucie Tiberghien, Michelle Veintimilla, and Matthew Rauch of “Tartuffe or The Hypocrite”
May 24, 2023 19:46 - 18 minutes - 24.5 MBListen in as Molière in the Park founding artistic director Lucie Tiberghien, director of the company’s World English-language Premiere of Molière’s original three-act version of TARTUFFE or The Hypocrite, along with performers Michelle Veintimilla and Matthew Rauch, discuss inviting in … Continue reading →
Kara Feely & Daniel Allen Nelson of “HOUSECONCERT”
May 11, 2023 17:09 - 19 minutes - 34.4 MBListen in as HOUSECONCERT writer/director/performer/drummer Kara Feely, along with fellow performer / production manager Daniel Allen Nelson, discuss actors playing instruments and musicians doing actions, reacting to the energy of the audience, finding ways to get from one thing to … Continue reading →
Jess Wood, Lisa Graham Parson, Henry Temple, & Laura Fois Bosley of “The Best Punk Band in Conway, Missouri”
May 10, 2023 19:19 - 19 minutes - 25.3 MBListen in as performers Jess Wood, Lisa Graham Parson, and Henry Temple of The Best Punk Band in Conway, Missouri: An Oral History of Presley Cox and the Fallout Five, along with UP Theater Company’s Managing Director Laura Fois Bosley, … Continue reading →
Amy Michelle & Zaven Ovian of “Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight”
April 26, 2023 19:38 - 28 minutes - 32.8 MBListen in as Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight actor/producer Amy Michelle, along with fellow cast member Zaven Ovian, discuss physics, inviting the audience in, those plays that follow you around until you put them up, staging … Continue reading →
Duncan Pflaster, Clinton Powell, and Wyn Delano of “Harmony Hall”
February 16, 2023 19:34 - 11 minutes - 17.3 MBListen in as Harmony Hall playwright & director Duncan Pflaster, along with the cast of Wyn Delano and Clinton Powell, discuss inspiration from terrible/wonderful Tennessee Williams adaptations, what is and is not a “pandemic play,” personal connections to the material, … Continue reading →
Randi Berry, Robert Lyons, Kristin Marting, & Daniella Topol of The West Village Rehearsal Co-Op
February 09, 2023 17:23 - 10 minutes - 17 MBListen in as Randi Berry, Executive Director of IndieSpace, Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of The New Ohio, Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director of HERE, & Daniella Topol, Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, discuss the creation of their “super-team,” working with … Continue reading →
Diane Davis & Illana Stein of “Complicity”
October 12, 2022 21:19 - 20 minutes - 25.2 MBListen in as Complicity playwright Diane Davis, along with director Illana Stein, discuss finding a different way to approach a well-known story, the illusion of power, the timeliness of this play about history, holding each other accountable, “heart and humanity,” … Continue reading →
Heather E. Cunningham & Sara Thigpen of “On the Verge”
September 21, 2022 14:21 - 24 minutes - 29.9 MBListen in as Retro Productions Artistic Director Heather E. Cunningham, who also plays Fanny in the cast, along with director Sara Thigpen, discuss looking at the past through the lens of theatre and theatre through the lens of history, enthusiasm … Continue reading →
Alec Duffy & Lori Elizabeth Parquet of “White on White”
July 14, 2022 16:07 - 23 minutes - 17.7 MBListen in as White on White co-directors Alec Duffy & Lori Elizabeth Parquet discuss the Hoi Polloi process, developing and discovering a play with the playwright, avoiding spoilers, how to examine whiteness in a theatrical context, troubling the waters, taking … Continue reading →
Blake Habermann & Jae Woo of “Take Shape”
April 26, 2022 14:50 - 18 minutes - 49 MBListen in as Blake Habermann & Jae Woo, performers in Broken Box Mime Theater‘s newest show Take Shape, discuss being prepared, music for mime, outbursts from toddlers, the benefits and difficulties of being a mime when masked, making some last-minute … Continue reading →
Kirk Gostkowski & Deven Anderson of “Garbageman”
April 04, 2022 19:26 - 19 minutes - 50.8 MBListen in as Garbageman performers Kirk Gostkowski and Deven Anderson discuss seeing the familiar onstage, truth in absurdity, the benefits of repartee, how the audience interacts with juxtaposed seriousness and silliness, how a difficult piece morphs and changes over time, … Continue reading →
Sara Fellini, Jillian Cicalese, & Caitlin Dullahan-Bates of “Ectoplasm”
February 03, 2022 17:23 - 25 minutes - 65.1 MBListen in as Ectoplasm playwright & director Sara Fellini, along with cast members Jillian Cicalese and Caitlin Dullahan-Bates, discuss “life and death and lust and love,” the stories we tell ourselves as we try to determine the truth, navigating society’s … Continue reading →
John Bell, of Bread & Puppet Theater
December 15, 2021 17:39 - 21 minutes - 56.8 MBListen in as longtime Bread & Puppet Theater collaborator John Bell discusses the history and activism of the company, bringing together collaborators from disparate locations, an “accessible and unpretentious” style of theater,” the use and meaning of different kinds of … Continue reading →
Andy Boyd, Katie Palmer, and Paul Bedard of “Occupy Prescott”
October 21, 2021 16:20 - 17 minutes - 47.3 MBListen in as playwright Andy Boyd, along with Theatre in Asylum co-Artistic Directors (and the play’s co-directors) Katie Palmer and Paul Bedard, discuss how it feels to watch a history play about something we all lived through, doing the thing, … Continue reading →
Sean Williams, Jordana Williams, & Mac Rogers of Gideon Media
June 25, 2021 16:14 - 46 minutes - 113 MBListen in as producer/actor Sean Williams, director Jordana Williams, and playwright/actor Mac Rogers of Gideon Media/Gideon Productions discuss how they connected with legendary playwright Wallace Shawn to bring two of his stage plays to the radio drama realm, the outgrowth … Continue reading →
Aimee Todoroff & Guy Yedwab of The League of Independent Theater (LIT)
January 13, 2021 21:35 - 23 minutes - 39.7 MBListen in as League of Independent Theater Managing Director Aimee Todoroff, and President of their Board of Directors Guy Yedwab, discuss the recently passed Open Culture program, what can be done, what the process looks like to do it, how … Continue reading →
Genny Yosco of “im ur hamlet.”
July 24, 2020 22:23 - 18 minutes - 48.4 MBListen in as Genny Yosco, the writer & director of (and an actor in!) im ur hamlet., discusses writing through food poisoning, creating for the Zoom medium, knowing who it is your parodying, creating a Shakespeare festival from afar, making … Continue reading →
Mark Blankenship of THE FLASHPAPER
July 21, 2020 19:47 - 27 minutes - 69.3 MBListen in as Mark Blankenship, editor and founder of The Flashpaper, discusses finding a way to let artists both share ideas and get paid, creating “a collective experience of good in a time of great crisis,” the power of a … Continue reading →
Erin B. Mee of “Play In Your Bathtub”
April 09, 2020 19:12 - 20 minutes - 54.3 MBListen in as Erin B. Mee, conceiver & director of Play In Your Bathtub: An Immersive Audio Spa for Physical Distancing, discusses why we should call it “physical” distancing as opposed to “social” distancing, getting inspiration from quarantine, engaging all … Continue reading →
Nick Mecikalski of “Really Really Gorgeous”
January 30, 2020 21:08 - 11 minutes - 33.2 MBListen in as Really Really Gorgeous playwright Nick Mecikalski discusses what happens when the media is filtered through only one lens, trust in personal relationships, the journey from digging a script out of a drawer to getting on the stage, … Continue reading →
Johnny G. Lloyd & William Steinberger of “Or, An Astronaut Play”
January 10, 2020 21:35 - 16 minutes - 45 MBListen in as playwright Johnny G. Lloyd and director William Steinberger of Or, An Astronaut Play discuss capitalism, Emerson, childlike wonder, designing to your space, stealing kids’ artwork, and why the play goes to space school (as well as literal … Continue reading →
Richard Thieriot & Therese Plaehn of “Monsoon Season”
November 08, 2019 20:02 - 12 minutes - 36.6 MBListen in as the performers of Lizzie Vieh’s new play Monsoon Season, Richard Thieriot & Therese Plaehn, discuss the development of this play from a 7-minute one-night-only solo piece to a set of solos, making something horrifying but also incredibly … Continue reading →
Kylie M. Brown & Leigh Honigman of “Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die”
October 23, 2019 20:53 - 16 minutes - 44.4 MBListen in as GSAS! correspondent Alex Randrup meets with Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die director Kylie M. Brown, along with producer Leigh Honigman, to discuss basement cults, Biblical inspiration & imagery, … Continue reading →
Patricia Lynn, Philip Estrera, & Natalie Hegg of “Strangers in the Night”
October 18, 2019 21:22 - 21 minutes - 56.9 MBListen in as “Strangers in the Night” contributing playwrights Patricia Lynn (writer of Screwed, portrayer of “Molly”, director of Frank) & Philip Estrera (writer of the Frank monologues, who also performs “Stranger” in Bottling Dreams of the Tearful Don’t-Knower), along … Continue reading →
Alexander V. Thompson of “Cryptids”
October 10, 2019 19:02 - 15 minutes - 41.7 MBListen in as writer (and performer) Alexander V. Thompson of the podcast Cryptids discusses late-night conspiracy shows, moving from the stage to a podcast, performing on mic, letting the audience fill in the blanks, adjusting images to audio, and the … Continue reading →
Matthew Freeman, Robert Honeywell, & David Cote of “The Sea The Mountains The Forest The City The Plain”
October 09, 2019 20:15 - 18 minutes - 50.4 MBListen in as The Sea The Mountains The Forest The City The Plain playwright Matthew Freeman, along with director David Cote & performer Robert Honeywell, discuss how to discover your character, propulsive changes & musicality, abstract simplicity, friendship and aging, … Continue reading →
Lauren Hlubny & Thomas Giles of “Thoughts & Prayers”
September 26, 2019 20:41 - 16 minutes - 43.8 MBListen in as the director/creator of Thoughts & Prayers, Lauren Hlubny, along with composer/”Felix” Thomas Giles, discuss the meaning of “dance-theatre concerto,” encouraging presence, developing a process to combine artistic disciplines, starting conversations, and not only reacting but taking action. … Continue reading →
Max Hunter of “See You”
September 12, 2019 21:33 - 22 minutes - 58.7 MBListen in as See You director Max Hunter discusses the show’s rehearsal process, making your play resonant to its local culture, unifying tone, how to make a list interesting in the theatre, play, honesty/vulnerability supplanted by signifiers, directing as conducting, … Continue reading →