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Listen 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, clowning, casting the audience, ouija boards, bringing play to tragedy, and making a connection. “&#8230...

Listen 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 the quotidian, theatre in/of/for the community, laundry jokes, cast bonding, actual lost socks, and the...

Listen 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 superpowers bestowed by costumes, personifying statues, and wearing masks over masks. “…I w...

Listen 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 changing moment when you discover your character’s love for another, fighting as conversation, grounding your role in the personal, and...

Listen 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 in new company members, pre-determined tracks, and finally getting a chance to collaborate. “…I love when...

Listen 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 levity, and moving Antigone to Viking culture. “I think there is something so beauti...

Listen 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 ephemeral. “…we spoke about the idea of how definitions of ‘Asian-ness,’ we didn’t necessary re...

Listen 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 literal) punches, and where theatre & video games meet. “…tha...

Listen 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 Broadway-blinders on. “Our goal is to create a more inclusive, diverse, accepting, and educated theatre community and audience.”...

Listen 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 Time . “I always say that The Fire This Time Festival feels like a family reunion, and it feels like we just a...

Listen 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 classic text, “a common language,” missing the merge onto the highway, and the importan...

Listen 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 “just saying it,” love for your director and cast, Queens bakery recommendations, last-minute genius discoveries, and why you shou...

Listen 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 to find the truth of a new play, teaching an audience how to watch a show (even before the show begins), non-traditional staging, the ways we lis...

Listen 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 concepts mean, how to welcome an audience of theatre-people into a show about those same difficult tech concepts, the deep space/slow t...

Listen 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, considering your audience, growth between iterations,...

Listen 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 been buried, moving from experiments to cabarets to full shows, working in theaters that aren’t “theaters...

Listen 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 the audience, staying focused, feminism in 17th century France, creating space for open theatrica...

Listen 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 another, how different audiences can interact with the same piece, and “resurrecting the ghosts of past hous...

Listen 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 , discuss old punks looking back on impetuous youth, casting unique actors & discovering your multiple characters, growing up where you don’t fit...

Listen 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 opportunities, deep research, love for stage managers, differentiating your multiple character assignments, and exploring “purpose & pass...

Listen 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, grounding your characters, the challenges of putting a show up in a festival, religious trauma, and the joy of...

Listen 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 a Community Board, how this space will deepen the work of the participating organizations, securing a 99-year lease, big...

Listen 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,” complexity in complicity, how systems perpetuate themselves, the importance of intimacy direction, and who is responsibl...

Listen 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 to jump in and play, suggestions vs. specificity, getting back to the live space post-COVID, and how it seems like everything comes back around again,...

Listen 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 theatre to an extreme place, and asking questions that we’re all “answering for ourselves, all the time.” “&#...