Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. Meet Julieanne Ehre Current Town: Chicago, IL Freelance Director 1. What attracted you to directing? The first play I directed was THE SALIVA MILKSHAKE by Howard Brenton when I was a senior in high school. One day, while I was in...
Here’s this week’s installment of our director-to-director interview series. I am really excited and inspired by the great conversation that has resulted from these spotlights and the #2amdir hashtag. Thanks, all, for reading and contributing! Meet Kate Powers Hometown: Buffalo, NY Current Town: NYC I am a freelance director; I...
In the absence of a director spotlight last week, we have two this week! Here’s the second… Meet Melissa Hillman Hometown: Grew up in Fremont, CA; now live in Albany, CA Artistic Director at Impact Theatre in Berkeley, CA 1. What attracted you to directing? I started out as an opera...
Hi all! Here’s the next installment in the director-to-director interview series. Be sure to join the Twitter conversation on directing by following the #2amdir hashtag. Meet Tony Adams Hometown: Rives Jct., MI. Current town: Chicago. Currently Artistic Director of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago. 1. What attracted you to directing? I...
It’s time for this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. If you haven’t already done so, you can join our Twitter conversation on directing by following the hashtag #2amdir. Also, The Director’s Library I’ve been compiling from these interviews will be getting its own page, which I will update...
Here’s this week’s installment of the 2amt director-to-director interview series. Join our Twitter conversation on directing by following the hashtag #2amdir. Meet Kevin Houle Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD Current town: Saint Paul, MN Freelance director. Frequently works with Lakeshore Players Theatre (http://www.lakeshoreplayers.com/)....
It’s time for the next installment in the new 2AMt director-to-director interview series. If you aren’t already doing so, you can also join in Twitter conversation specific to directing by following the hashtag #2amdir. Meet Dominic D’Andrea. Hometown: Severna Park, MD; Current City: New York City My company: The One-Minute...
This past week I began a new director-to-director interview series on 2AMt. Here is the first profile (Meet Michael Leeds), just in case you missed it. The objective of this series is twofold: (1) to create more dialogue among directors (2) to provide more insight into current directing practices. Profiles...
While following the New Play Convening at Arena Stage in January, I was struck by a comment made about directors in relation to the supply/demand debate. The comment went something like this: directors have lacked opportunities to hone their craft and so have started companies in order to remedy this,...
You’re in the profession, but are you a ‘professional’? I like to read mission statements. In particular, I find it interesting to compare how a company self-identifies against what kind of work it programs. Just recently, however, while reading the mission, vision, and plans of Fusion Theatre in New Mexico,...
