When I read Howard’s HowlRound article “What’s Wrong with Canadian Theatre” I chuckled to myself. Name five Canadian playwrights? I immediately rattled off five Vancouver playwrights, three of which had shows or workshops produced in the last 12 months that I had been a part of. But if my friends...
I haven’t been an actor in a long time. I had spent most of nearly three decades (I was a very, very young child actor…) working on one show or another before finding myself torn between those age-old female choices of nurturing myself or nurturing my offspring. Luckily, my first-born...
Been a while…today we’re going to talk to New York-based lighting designer Natalie Robin. Take it away, Natalie! I was a dancer from childhood. And then started doing theater in middle school and high school. I thought I wanted to be a director, but I always gravitated towards design. In...
THEATER IN BUFFALO IS NOT A CONTRADICTION. On Allen Street in Buffalo, New York, there is an establishment called Rust Belt Books. While the name certainly pays ironic tribute to an outsider’s image of the city, the back room of this iconic haunt imparts a truer, and more progressive, vision....
Here’s the first of several spotlights on British stage directors. Have a great remainder of the week! Meet Darren A. Furniss Current Town: East Midlands, UK Theatre Affiliation: Artistic Director of 4FRONT Performance Company 1. What does a director eat for breakfast? I usually don’t eat breakfast so I...
Here’s this week’s installment of the 2amt director-to-director interview series. Meet Justine Lambert Hometown: Manhattan. Raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Current town: Back to my roots in Park Slope. Theatre Affiliation: Artistic Director at The Looking Glass Theatre lookingglasstheatrenyc.com 1. What attracted you to directing? Like so many of my...
The theatre niche of the social media stream operates much like any other Animal Farm and in this particular backwater Animal Farm I am a donkey who has lived a long time. Hang around long enough and one sees the patterns of people entering and leaving or the ebbs and flows of the...
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview seres. Meet Sabrina Evertt Hometown: Grew up in New Westminster, British Columbia Current town: 17 km (11 miles) west in Vancouver, British Columbia Company: I currently do most of my directing for Twenty Something Theatre, a company I founded in 2006....
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. And in the coming weeks, the British are coming, the British are coming! I’ve rallied some fine UK directors to share their stories. Stay tuned. Meet Jason King Jones Hometown: Nixa, Missouri Current Town: Boston, Massachusetts Theatre/Co: Boston University (currently completing...
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. Thanks for reading! Are there other questions that you would like to see included in future interviews? If so, add them in the comment section below or email me at nicole@thinkingcaptheatre.com … Meet Kristina Lloyd Hometown: Los Angeles Freelance Director. Not currently affiliated...
