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/)....
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,...
On the Sunday morning of opening weekend (yesterday as I post this), Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director Paul Nicholson and Artistic Director Bill Rauch sat down for a press conference with the critics and reporters who were in town for the 2011 opening weekend. I hear the event used to...
Introducing … Bobby Bermea, who serves as the artistic director of BaseRoots Theatre, a newish theatre company in Portland, Oregon. BaseRoots was founded on Juneteenth, 2009, and its mission statement says that it’s “a group of professional theater artists organized to build bridges between communities by presenting classical and contemporary...
