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Spotlight: Jessica Hutchinson, Director
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. Enjoy! Meet Jessica Hutchinson Hometown: I was an Air Force Brat, but I claim Omaha, Nebraska Current City: Chicago Theatre affiliation: Artistic Director of New Leaf Theatre 1. What attracted you to directing? I started as an actor, but midway through college and then again shortly [...]
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Spotlight: Suzanne Westfall, Director
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. To date, the directors I have interviewed have been either freelance directors or directors affiliated with a particular company; this week’s spotlight marks a departure and an avenue I’d like to explore more in this series. Suzanne Westfall is a professor of drama at Lafayette College [...]
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Do whatever a spider can.
07.07.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIn case you’ve been in a coma for the last year, there’s this Broadway musical, it’s called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and it’s made some headlines. There were accidents and script problems and fights with critics and the official opening kept being pushed further back and back and back and…etc. Basically, it redefined the [...]
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conversation starter, directors, q & a, spotlight
Spotlight: Leigh Hile, Director
07.01.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s this week’s installment of the 2amt director-to-director interview series. Meet Leigh Hile 1. What attracted you to directing? All throughout my childhood and about half of college I thought I wanted to be an actor, but the more I pushed myself as a performer, the more frustrated I became. I didn’t know if what [...]
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collaboration, conversation starter, directors, q & a, spotlight, the process
Spotlight: Tlaloc Rivas, Director
Here’s the latest installment of the director-to-director interview series… Meet Tlaloc Rivas Hometown: Tijuana, Baja California Raised in: Escondido, CA and then Watsonville, CA Current city: St. Louis, MO Occupation: Assistant Professor of Directing & Performance, University of Missouri-St. Louis Profession: Stage Director (www.tlalocrivas.com) 1) What attracted you to directing? In the early 1990s, there was [...]
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conversation starter, directors, q & a, spotlight
Spotlight: Bries Vannon, Director
Here’s the next installment in the director-to-director interview series. A big thanks to all who have participated in the series and to all who have been participating in the directing conversation on Twitter with the #2amdir hashtag! Meet Bries Vannon Hometown: George, Iowa Current: Chicago Company Affiliation: Creator/Director of The Nine; Literary Manager & ensemble [...]
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conversation starter, directors, q & a, spotlight
Spotlight: Julieanne Ehre, Director
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 the middle of rehearsals, I [...]
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conversation starter, directors, q & a, spotlight
Spotlight: Kate Powers, Director
05.06.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHere’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 go wherever the work is. [...]
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Spotlight: Melissa Hillman, Director
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 singer in college. Our opera [...]
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conversation starter, directors, profile, q & a, spotlight
Spotlight: Tony Adams, Director
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 think in some ways I’ve [...]
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actors, collaboration, community, directors, education, rabble rousing, the process
We are Arthur
04.25.11 | Permalink | 8 CommentsEven though I am in prison three times a week, I am only just beginning to understand what it feels like to be incarcerated. What I do know is that the men with whom I work with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility feel like they have been thrown away. They [...]
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directors, dramaturgy, profile, q & a, spotlight, theatrical ecosystem
Spotlight: Rebecca Zellar, Director
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 and link to in future [...]
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