War Dreamers, War Nightmares
Stevens and Treadway gravitate towards original plays that, like WAR DREAMER, look at extreme human behavior and have an experimental edge
Category Archives: Interviews
Perkins & Borinsky | THE GOLD ROOM
Rehearsing it felt like having conversations with a ghost. Jacob from 4 years ago still has something to say to Jacob now. Jacob will always be becoming Jacob.
Looking to a “Beautiful Future” with Rita Kalnejais
I’m interested in setting myself as big a challenge as I can when I’m writing, saying to myself, “How can I love you?”
Creative Outlet: A Conversation with Shannon Yu
Paper. A tongue? A face? Hands, elbows, emerging body parts. Two bodies. Questions. Who are they to each other? Will they ever come out from behind the semi-translucent wall? Conceal and reveal. Discovery. Peekaboo, peep show, peeling back wrapping paper; pulling the curtain open in a stranger’s house to see a familiar smile.
Cosmic Heart: a Conversation with Daniel Alexander Jones
I don’t think it’s our job to banish the darkness. But I think it’s our job to understand that the light locates us in this womb. It locates us in this infinite and ever expanding universe. And it gives us an opportunity to be present.
PUFFY HAIR: A Fabulously Feral Feminist Fantasia… with Farts
Not a “solo show” but also not not a solo show
Movement Without Borders at Judson Church
A catalyst, a deep breath together, a gathering.
On the creation of THE MS PHOENIX RISING
Somehow, it made perfect sense that we did it during a global pandemic. I think we created something that does three things; captures our current reality, comments on the future, and will hopefully have a long, relevant life after we’re through the other side.
“Poor Players”: The Most Entertaining Way to Do the Least Entertaining Part of Theater
Edward Einhorn has gamified independent theater producing, in a fun but remarkable educational exercise is demystifying just what it takes to make a play
TRAPDOORS INTO OTHER WORLDS: Shayok Misha Chowdhury talks with Tarfia Faizullah about VICHITRA
Misha “sees” in multiple dimensions, as all great directors do, and through multiple worldviews, too, as an artist whose work is informed by being Bengali, queer, and an immigrant.
In the Kitchen – an interview with Hannah Aliza Goldman & Coral Cohen
I think all women and femme people have a complicated relationship with the kitchen, because patriarchy has told us it’s our “proper place,” so the kitchen is never a neutral space. It’s actually been part of my process of rebuffing patriarchy that I claim the kitchen as my own, a space I enter out of choice, for my own joy and fulfillment.
5 Questions with Marga Gomez
The timeless, classic Cubana Rican performance artist stand-up comic Marga Gomez leans into her fears and at large: the pitfalls of friendship and failed perseverance that bog down all of humanity.