Category: Interviews

  • Meet The Curator – Mark Yeoman

    Name: Mark Yeoman Title: Artistic Director Affiliation: Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? South of England. Was an actor and freelance director, til i followed my wife to a new city (she had a new job here in Groningen) and…

  • Five Questions for Timothy Braun

    Name: Timothy Braun Title/Occupation: Writer/Professor. Organization/Company: A handful of websites, theaters, papers, and universities. URL: http://www.timothybraun.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in Indiana, but I’ve lived for stints in all kinds of places for months at a time doing…

  • Five Questions for Robert Lyons

    Name:  Robert Lyons Title/Occupation:  Artististic Director Organization/Company:  Soho Think Tank / Ohio Theatre 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born in Detroit Mi and raised in the suburbs.  I left Michign when I graduated from MSU and spent six or seven years traveling…

  • Five Questions for Kambui Olujimi

    Name: Kambui Olujimi Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: self-employed URL: http://www.kambuiolujimi.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I moved around a lot, but kept coming back to Quincy Street where I was born. I feel like I never really get homesick,…

  • Five Questions for Sarah Cameron Sunde

    Name: Sarah Cameron Sunde Title/Occupation:Organization:  Freelance Director / Associate Director, New Georges / Co-Artistic Director, Oslo Elsewhere URL:  www.newgeorges.org / www.osloelsewhere.org and right now,www.amishproject.com! 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Northern California, in the Bay Area….Somewhere around the age of 16, I decided…

  • Five Questions for Patrick Rosal

    Name: Patrick Rosal Title/Occupation: Author, Poet Organization/Company: See below. URL: http://www.patrickrosal.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in New Jersey. I’ve had short and very temporary stints in Yonkers, NY, Altoona, PA, Austin, TX, and most recently Brooklyn. For the…

  • Five Questions for Jason Grote

    Name: Jason Grote Title/Occupation: I’m mostly identified as a playwright, but I also DJ on WFMU (The Acousmatic Theater Hour with Karinne and Jason G), am working on a movie, and sometimes do generative/collaborative work. I also teach (currently at Rutgers and Hollins), and I just auditioned for a play. Organization/Company: See above URL: www.jasongrote.com…

  • Five Questions for Jonathan Wei

    Name: Jonathan Wei Title: Executive Director / Writer and Producer Organization: The Telling Project 1.) Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in college towns in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Minnesota and New Hampshire.  My father was a librarian, which explains none of this…

  • Talking with Carrie Mae Weems

    A week or so ago I was invited to interview artist Carrie Mae Weems on the set of her new art/film project, Refractions, a collaboration with jazz artist Geri Allen. I could try and write it up for you – these are two wonderful, warm, dynamic, creative women – but fortunately Ermanno De Biagi was shooting film…

  • Five Questions for Maria Striar

    Name: Maria Striar Title/Occupation: Producing Artistic Director Organization/Company: Clubbed Thumb 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Boston. I went to Brown University, where I got the new play bug. After grad school (for acting) at UCSD, I came to New York.…

  • Five Questions for Michael Gardner

    Name: Michael Gardner Title/Occupation: Co-Artistic Director Organization: The Brick 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in various suburbs along the east coast but, more meaningfully, within the collective imagined landscape of Allen’s, Scorsese’s and Bernstein’s New York. I think I ended up…

  • Five Questions for Walter Kirn

    Name: Walter Kirn Title/Occupation: Writer Organization/Company: Self 1.Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in a couple of tiny towns along the St. Croix River in Minnesota, towns so small that the summer tornado sirens were practically the only entertainment other than waiting each…