The Poetics of Provocation: Elfriede Jelinek As we stumble through this enormously unsettling period in American history, and take stock of our own ability (or perceived inability) to enact change it can be extremely helpful to look for models, other theatre-makers who use their work to provoke and enact change.
A Closer Look: Rita Goldberg Playwrights' Workshop 2017 The way of working that I’ve carried over the years, or my routine, is not to have a routine. I try not to write when I don’t feel like it...I used to feel very guilty during long stretches of not writing and I’ve graduated to feeling merely guilty.
“Knowing Your History” And The Cyclical Nature Of Things Nowadays, I wake up feeling like I’m living inside a contemporary Greek Tragedy. But as storytellers, at least we have that – to record and report our times through our own personal sedimentation and add to the dialogue of history.
On Trans Embodiment and the War Between Fantasy and Delusion in Theater I was a junior in college when I was first told I would be passed over for a trans role in favor of a cisgendered man.
The Product of Community Our practice is one of coming together, relying and depending on one another in order to produce something which only has meaning when finally a group of other people come together to receive it.
The Words I Choose I left Bolivia in 1998. Last time I visited was in June 2007 before starting an Acting degree in London later that academic year. The memory that hits me hardest is one of a small family
Temporary Communities in the Era of Climate Change There is the sort of community that establishes by individuals living, working, and playing together over many years. And there is another sort of community which is temporary, one that forms fast, usually in the wake of a crisis or unusual circumstances that suddenly bring strangers together.
A Closer Look: Samuel D. Hunter I’ve never written anything this long before. But the further I got into it, and the more three act plays I read on the subway to and from that writing retreat, the more invested I got in the idea. There’s just something about that amount of time you get to spend with the characters…
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