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...
In 2008, I needed an internship to fulfill the requirements for my MFA program in theatrical design & technical production. I didn’t take the bait on Santa Fe. I wanted to go abroad, and I’d heard something about a little festival in Scotland, and so I blindly cast applications around...
Roll On, Strange Little Plays. Roll On. I will start off saying this: rolling world premieres should be the ONLY way plays premiere. With consecutive and distinct productions a new play gets the essential time and community to mature rapidly, thoroughly, and cradled by friendly forces. Awww. A play becomes...
Why did I go into PR? It’s simple, really. I like telling people about things that I’m excited about. Truly and authentically, and that’s it. I’m a music and theater nerd, so I sort of stumbled from oboe performance major and Michael Olmert’s British plays in performance class to student...
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....
“You’re gonna have to learn your clichés. You’re gonna have to study them, you’re gonna have to know them. They’re your friends.” Though I rarely seek it out, I frequently find myself watching the television sports report during the 11 pm news, typically after Jon Stewart completes his guest interview...
Rachel Chavkin, founding artistic director of the TEAM, a devising ensemble, wrote an article on TCG’s blog that asks the question, “What if devised theatre moved from the margins to the mainstream of theatre making?” She makes the case that the slower, cooperative methods involved in a lot of devised...
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...